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Ahoy Draculads and ladies, V Rising is free this weekend

Please and fang you

Bonkers anti-immersive sim Mosa Lina now has co-op multiplayer, plus "super secret frog mode"

Don't worry, "non-super kinds of impossible places are still allowed"

Spray Paint Simulator announced, as PowerWash Simulator seethes

Alliance or Horde

A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks

Plus a dozen other recommendations against misleading microtransaction practices

Faaast Penguin is that Super Mario 64 level where you race a penguin except now the penguin is 39 other players

Cool, cool something

50/50 is a cheerful, deeply heinous free game about cutting things perfectly in half

Slice of life

Portal To The Cosmobeat is a brilliant, ridiculous and currently free mix of QWOP and Dance Dance Revolution

The first fun videogame

Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resign following dispute with owner

Executives and around 24 staffers quit in the wake of failed negotiations

Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines is out now, adding a shooty new character to the original's tricky platforming

Grappling still included

Convergence Games Showcase will feature announcements from indie publishers including Secret Mode, Thunderful and Kepler

Streaming on September 26th

The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see?

Look closer

Unity is ditching their much-hated runtime fees effective immediately, a year after they infuriated basically every game developer

Returning to a subscription model

Eve Frontier is a survival game spin-off of Eve Online and, yup, it's full of blockchain bullshit

No, thank you

Microsoft toss another 650 jobs onto the layoff pyre in the name of "sustainable future growth"

No game cancellations or studio closures involved

Free unofficial open world Superman game Undefeated gets a PC update with heat vision alongside a surprise PS5 launch

No shades of grey, just black sunshades and punching

Nightmare Operator is a ghostly Tokyo-set shooter in which you switch bullets by doing Street Fighter moves

Quarter-circle reloads sound great on paper

An urgent update for the dogs next door

bork bork bork bork bork bork bork

Bramble Royale: A Meteorfall Story pops D&D party mechanics into a roguelike deckbuilder reminiscent of Adventure Time

Tell your friends

Steam Families is out of beta, letting you share games with up to five others

and you call them that despite the fact they are obviously grilled

Space noir roguelike Ostranauts is aiming for 1.0 in 2025, with help from Kitfox as publisher

Die in space with better QoL

Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt update arrives tomorrow and aims to revive the game with a handcrafted campaign

And cats in hats

Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have a photo mode at launch, so you can finally take a close-up of the taint

...is the taint even in Veilguard?

Please stab, toast and devour the demo for disgusting mushroom RPG Shroom And Gloom

Funish the fungus with fungusto

Turn heroes into god-beast fodder in this city builder influenced by Black & White and Cult Of The Lamb

Gold Gold! Adventure? Gold!

Minecraft's new faster update schedule will probably fill modders with both despair and nostalgia

Expect "free game drops" throughout the year, rather than one big summer update