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Virtue and a Sledgehammer review – a haunting sci-fi drama about breaking walls, AI faces, and your heart bit.ly/3U4xnHb

"Every piece is unified": Dark Messiah of Might and Magic returns with co-op, an Adventure mode, a level generator and New Game+ in the 64-bit Community Edition bit.ly/4Bt1FUN

STALKER 2's latest update expands its A-Life NPC simulation bubble, seemingly without a scary performance tax bit.ly/4zhipgc

The word "BioWare" does not appear in a recent Change.org petition asking EA to "save Mass Effect", which has gained around 220,000 signatories as of writing. bit.ly/48kMMGw

Life is Strange makers Don't Nod face layoffs and possible insolvency, French workers union STJV state bit.ly/4z7kriN

Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range. bit.ly/4yHFEyK

Steam Frame kernel updated with external CD-ROM drive compatibility just one day after a user asked Valve for it bit.ly/4kimVq3

Staff at Microsoft continue to recieve emails they'd probably rather not be getting. bit.ly/4ifnTRf

"Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale": Journey composer shares 20 minutes of music created during talks to work on BioWare's recently cancelled RPG bit.ly/4ek23ev

Boltgun 2 and Warhammer Survivors devs Auroch Digital say they're laying of 25% of their staff in now-deleted posts bit.ly/4zbAsnR

The GameMaker engine series behind Undertale, Hotline Miami and Spelunky is going free for commercial use on PC bit.ly/3TUWFHK

With Xbox cuts not done, Microsoft offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 workers across the company in latest attempt to get rid of staff bit.ly/4ifnTRf

Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range bit.ly/4yHFEyK

220,000-signatory petition to "save Mass Effect" doesn't mention BioWare, suggests giving Mass Effect 5 to somebody else bit.ly/48kMMGw

"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