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"IT FLIPS UP," Fallout New Vegas modders yell after releasing a funky Pip-Boy based on cancelled entry Van Buren's design docs bit.ly/4kh51DZ

Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre's latest crime against perfectionists bit.ly/3WaOQOG

This week in PC games: Run a shady cyberpunk boutique in Probably Stolen, autobattle Viking towns in Northgard Battlegrounds, and trash homophobic robots in Virtue and a Sledgehammer bit.ly/4zc2Lmn

32-year-old "ellipsoid" horror game Ecstatica gets a PC re-release today, showing us an alternative timeline in which polygonal 3D never became dominant bit.ly/4soO5NS

Update: Microsoft say they've "extended the consultation period by one additional month" as talks with Arkane roll on rockpapershotgun.com/arkane-…

Mass Effect 5 was named Universe partly because it let players generate alternate timelines based on their choices in previous entries, technical director says bit.ly/4yFXLVO

The Sunday Papers bit.ly/4zTCnO1

Abelina is a strange, platforming romp through a natural afterlife from a former League of Legends animator and the composer of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil bit.ly/4sk5Ei8

"System Shock and Deus Ex, they were RPGs. People called them RPGs": Gloomwood's publisher isn't too keen on using the term immersive sim despite it being one bit.ly/4yGRDwD

HELENA : Cloud District is a megastructure photography game laser targeted at my interests, and it's out next week bit.ly/4eQdyu2

Paralives' first major update slips to next year, but when it comes you can expect some pretty meaty improvements for all of its main features bit.ly/4jyCkSS

I've got egg on my face because Steam's Personal Calendar feature has apparently been a test this whole time and is only now actually a fully fledged component bit.ly/48byyYx

Mass Effect 3 ending discourse ignored the RPG's scale, ambition, and exuberance, including that of its oddly great co-op bit.ly/4ePK9QG

What are we all playing this weekend? bit.ly/4soITd8

Factorio's final major update has rolled off the assembly line, adding "the things we wanted to do for 2.0 but didn't have time for" bit.ly/3Wr9OsG

Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed" bit.ly/4eJVfGT

BioWare staff "should be given the first opportunity and the federal support" to buy the studio and keep it running, says Canadian political party leader bit.ly/4kdFsUo

"This was not a Creative Assembly developed game": Total War boss points the finger at external partner for Shogun 2 Complete Edition disaster bit.ly/4idptD5

Woim is the earth-guzzling, self-bisecting sokoban pick-me-up I needed after a week of games industry disasters bit.ly/4z8xTmP

Arkane survival negotiations reportedly seeing "several forms of takeover" considered ahead of November deadline, as Marvel's Blade production nears end bit.ly/489Ir97