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Don't expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says
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Don't expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says

Valve’s quiet bankrolling of open-source emulation tools could make it heaps easier to play your PC games library on a humble smartphone, though it sounds like Gabe-made SteamOS phones are unlikely to be joining the company’s growing hardware catalogue. In an interview with The Verge, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that they’ve been funding the development of Fex – a free compatibility tool that gets Windows apps functioning on mobile ARM processors &ndash

Rock Paper Shotgun 03.12.2025 13:34 Uhr
Speed saves lives in Haste, 2025's best game about outrunning an apocalypse
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Speed saves lives in Haste, 2025's best game about outrunning an apocalypse

To successfully deliver presents to every child on Earth within a single Christmas eve, Santa Claus would need to travel in the region of half the speed of light – enough to vaporise the flesh and disintegrate the sleighs of mere mortals. He’d therefore appreciate the sheer go-fastness of the roguelite running game that’s blasting out of door #3. It’s Haste! Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 03.12.2025 12:59 Uhr
Haunted videogame No Players Online resurrected on Steam after a disgruntled "former friend" had it exorcised via DMCA
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Haunted videogame No Players Online resurrected on Steam after a disgruntled "former friend" had it exorcised via DMCA

A few weeks ago, developers Beeswax Games released a "spiritual successor" to 2019 freeware game No Players Online on Steam. If you've not played the old freeware project - still available on Itch - it's one of those haunted software jobbies that accentuate the eerieness of elderly 3D simulation tech, and in this case, abandoned FPS multiplayer maps. I was looking forward to playing the successor. But then, spookily, the Steam page vanished. And now, spookily, it's back. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 03.12.2025 12:56 Uhr
Avowed's new game plus, fresh kind of weapon and photo mode are now coming in a beefy anniversary update
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Avowed's new game plus, fresh kind of weapon and photo mode are now coming in a beefy anniversary update

Avowed won't be getting the final update devs Obsidian had planned for this year. Instead the studio have opted to save putting out the new game plus mode they'd planned for this autumn for a big update to make the RPG's first birthday in February. To make up the extra wait, the anniversary update'll be adding some mystery extra bits alongside the already announced features. The autumn patch was originally set to be the third update delivered to the nature-rific blunderbuss adventure this year.

Rock Paper Shotgun 03.12.2025 12:46 Uhr
Anime Card Clash codes November 2025
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Anime Card Clash codes November 2025

Grab your fill of free rerolls, speed potions, and more with the latest Roblox Anime Card Clash codes, giving your deck the boost it needs to conquer.

PCGamesN 03.12.2025 12:28 Uhr
Saudi Arabia will reportedly own almost all of EA if the buyout goes through
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Saudi Arabia will reportedly own almost all of EA if the buyout goes through

The $55 billion leveraged buyout which will see Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner become the new owners of EA will reportedly lead to the Saudi Public Investment Fund owning a whopping 93.4 percent of the game publishers. That's assuming the deal goes through as planned. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 03.12.2025 12:07 Uhr
Epic ban Santa Ragione's Horses just before release, allegedly with a weird reminder that NFT games are fine though
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Epic ban Santa Ragione's Horses just before release, allegedly with a weird reminder that NFT games are fine though

Grotesque and surreal 'farming simulation' Horses has been banned from the Epic Games Store on the eve of release, a couple of years after a work-in-progress version of the game was rejected by Valve. In an alleged statement to developers Santa Ragione, the Fortnite makers explain that they've found the game to be in contravention of policies against "Inappropriate Content" and "Hateful or Abusive Content". Given that, according to Santa Ragione, Epic have had access to a build for two months

Rock Paper Shotgun 03.12.2025 11:33 Uhr
Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now
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Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now

Seems it’s a good day to be a Helldivers 2 player: in addition to the buff-happy Into the Unjust 5.0.0 patch that launched earlier, developers Arrowhead have shared an update on their efforts to shave down the co-op shooter’s mammoth install size. And it’s not so much a shaving as a fully fuelled chainsawing, high vis vests be damned. As the Steam post explains, there’s now a beta build, available to try, that cuts the 154GB game down to 23GB – a 131GB (!!!) reduct

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.12.2025 17:58 Uhr
Horses review
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Horses review

One of the first "moving pictures" ever created is a moving picture of a horse. In the late 1870s, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge produced a series of "chronophotographs" of horses and riders, including the famous 12-frame sequence Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. I know about Muybridge's work thanks to Jordan Peele's film Nope, which considers the historical erasure of Sallie Gardner's Black jockey, whose identity is disputed. Another thing that easily gets overlooked when considering these

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.12.2025 16:58 Uhr