Valve opened the floodgates to any old rubbish appearing on Steam a long time ago, but the store still occasionally acts like a draconian gatekeeper—specifically when it comes to adult content. Steam’s had a turbulent relationship with pornographic games, and currently doesn’t permit graphic nudity or games that could be considered pornographic onto the store. In July, House Party reappeared, with the naughty bits censored, and late last month Strangers in a Strange Land reappeared as well. It’s

At some point in the not-too-distant future, companies will start pushing 802.11ax wireless routers. Asus already is, to an extent—while it does not yet have an 802.11ax router available to purchase, it did trot out its next-generation RT-AX88U model built around the 802.11ax specification at IFA. This snazzy looking router combines a black and gold color scheme with the usual aggressive angles that Asus often employs in its products. As with today’s wireless routers, you can’t actually combine

AMD recently said it is doing everything it can to bring more Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics cards to market, but maybe we shouldn’t hold our breath. A Reddit forum member posted screenshots of his slightly tweaked Vega 64 card achieving a hash rate of 43.5 MH/s while drawing just 130W of power (104W core power) for his graphics card. If his results end up being par for course, it means Vega 64 will prove an more popular option among miners than previous generation Polaris cards. To put his results

As much as we love mechanical keyboards, we realize not everyone prefers them. The anti-ghosting gaming matrix is tuned for optimal gaming performance, keeping you in control when you press multiple gaming keys simultaneously,” Logitech says. It’s also a spill-resistant keyboard that resists both liquids and crumbs, in case you like to surround your gaming environment with drinks and snacks. There are no gaming keys on this keyboard, though it does have dedicated media controls and programmable

Before this point, I’d suffered defeat on two occasions in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s Captain Mode—as a sharpshooting bowman and Longsword-sporting soldier respectively—thus lancing this poor bastard from atop my mount marked the beginning of my sweet retribution. In Bannerlord’s multiplayer mode, you control your own character and have the ability to direct your troops around the battlefield as you see fit. Going it alone clearly wasn’t working for my team and I, so we put our heads together

Ni No Kuni 2 is making some big changes to the first game’s traditional JRPG structure. Moreover, skirmishes will be an integral part of Ni No Kuni 2’s story progression and as such will be mandatory, as game director Hino-san tells me. Without having experienced Ni No Kuni’s wider story, my brief foray into Ni No Kuni 2’s Skirmish mode admittedly lacked context. Hino-san explains that in Kingdom mode players establish a central headquarters and are thereafter able to recruit characters into the

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. I don’t know what steampunk is anymore, but it sure isn’t punk! Put together by Derick Magnusen of Senpai Studios, this PC is worth $20,000, and not just because the liquid cooling loop is made of copper tubes. But I suppose that because PCs like this exist, a marvel of craft and consumer technology, capable of—you know it—running Crysis, I bet! I’m in a hell of my own making, but this

Bethesda’s Creation Club has proved to be divisive, unsurprisingly, but free mods aren’t going anywhere, so you won’t need to spend any cash on credits or purchase these ‘new’ premium mods. You might, however, find mod files being downloaded without you knowing about it. Users have reported that files for every mod on the Creation Club are being automatically downloaded along with a regular, bug-fixing patch. It’s not clear if it’s working as intended or not, but a Bethesda community manager has

It’s not a joke,” Friday the 13th: The Game co-creator Ronnie Hobbs said. “We underestimated how much work Kickstarter was, in terms of updating the community. According to community lead Ben Strauss, several backers misunderstood their chosen reward tier, and emailed the team looking for restitution. “We had to figure out, do we change course or stay the same based on community feedback?” Hobbs said. “So be prepared for actual feedback and to put it in your game in some sort of way.”

It wasn’t this most recent surge of Half-Life 2 nostalgia that led me to play through the final chapter of Half-Life 2 a total of 15 times in 2 days. I love Half-Life 2, and I’ll still play certain chapters of it every now and then. But when I play it, I never play the last chapter, and I didn’t want to this week, and I certainly didn’t want to play it 15 times in two days. There’s an explosion, Alyx throws her hands up, I disable the AI, and everything pauses. So that’s why I had to play Half-L

Most of Gearbox, around 90%, are working on a new title, Randy Pitchford told the audience at a PAX panel on the weekend. According to the bossman, it’s the thing “most of you guys want us to be working on”. Though it’s not been officially announced, Borderlands 3 isn’t exactly a secret. Better news would be that 90% of Telltale were working on a sequel to Tales from the Borderlands, absolutely the best game set in Gearbox’s over-the-top universe. Unfortunately, Telltale have no plans to continu

Despite positive reviews, LawBreakers has been struggling to find an audience. Evan had plenty of nice things to say about it, but it’s not been enough to seduce people away from their go-to multiplayer mainstays. Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions are looking forwards, however, and have outlined the future of the multiplayer shooter in a roadmap that covers the rest of 2017. I told y’all we aren’t stopping. The updates will kick off this month, and everything in the roadmap will be free.

Oh man, I’m definitely not ready to say goodbye to Geralt and company. To celebrate The Witcher’s tenth anniversary, CD Projekt Red have put together a sweet video full of old friends and I’m not going to pretend it hasn’t made me a wee bit teary. In October, Geralt—or at least the digital version—will turn 10, marking the launch of the first game, and it’s been quite the ride. Despite all the smiling faces and resurrected friends, there’s a tinge of sadness. While we might see more Witcher game

Total War: Warhammer II is coming out at the end of the month, and in preparation, Bundle Stars is offering money off the pre-order, and you can also get the first Total War: Warhammer for 70 percent off. If you know you’re definitely going to be getting the sequel, there’s 18 percent off the pre-order right now. If you don’t want to spend quite that much just yet, you can always try the first game in the series for 70 percent off. You can also get 40 percent off most of Total War: Warhammer’s D

Thankfully, this was also the weekend where developers started tweeting about hidden game mechanics, and it was fascinating. Earthlight game design lead Jennifer Scheurle got the ball rolling on Friday, and was soon inundated with examples of the sneaky and sometimes brilliant tricks developers use. Makes last second defusals more likely.September 2, 2017As more developers responded, commonalities appeared. Never trust health bars. In System Shock we made your last bullet do double damage, simil

TaleWorlds have put together a second video for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s Captain Mode, its large-scale, five-a-side brawls. If you’re wondering what the stats are for various Khuzait units, then you’re in luck. This faction’s preference—unsurprisingly, given its inspiration—is for cavalry units, particularly horse archers. There are some particularly great bits where the Khuzait cavalry encircle desperate Empire soldiers, huddling together, spears out. In Captain Mode, the goal you’ll have

Just over a month ago, American McGee asked fans to stop pestering him about his surreal platformer, Alice. He has no control over the series, so go bug EA, was the gist. Now he’d like them to bug EA even more because he’s working on an Alice 3 proposal. Alice’s third video game outing is tentatively called Alice: Asylum. Weekly live streams are also planned, where prospective players will be able to give McGee and his team feedback and suggestions.

WolfenDoom: Blade of Agony is a GZDoom mod and an unofficial successor to Wolfenstein 3D. But what makes Blade of Agony exceptional is that it’s more than just PC gaming alt-history fan fiction. You play as BJ Blazkowicz, Nazi killer über alles, drawn back to the frontlines after a period of administrative leave. Before each mission, there’s a briefing at allied high command. Blade of Agony isn’t the best example of combat in a Doom mod, nor is it filled with the purest, most intricate maps.

Are we adventurer, or are we shopkeeper? One of the interesting systems in Moonlighter is how items are priced. At PAX West this weekend, Evan spoke to Moonlighter developer Javier Giménez about how the game works and got to play it a bit himself. Watch that in the video above, and check out the rest of our PAX West 2017 coverage here. Moonlighter is on Steam, and should be out early next year.

Rend appears to be another survival game at first glance, but coming from former World of Warcraft developers, there’s also a lot of fantasy MMO inspiration. And “it may be a little bit like a MOBA,” too, says Frostkeep Studios CEO Jeremy Wood, if matches in that MOBA last “a month or two.” In short, Rend is a “cutthroat” war between three 20-player factions who are vying to collect and store souls in Divinity Stones, while also protecting their faction’s stone from opposing players and AI creat