Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam’s new censorship rules in victory against ‘porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists’, and things only get weirder from there

Collective Shout, an Australian anti-pornography group, has claimed credit for Steam’s recent removal of a large number of sexually explicit games and new, stricter moderation guidelines regarding such material. In a statement to PC Gamer, Valve cited pressure from payment processors like credit card companies and Paypal for the move, while Collective Shout touted its … Read more

Warframe is coming to the tabletop in the form of an adventure for Pathfinder’s sci-fi spin-off RPG

Starfinder is a tabletop RPG by Paizo, which is based on their fantasy RPG Pathfinder, which is based on the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, which is as far down that rabbit hole as I feel like going today. Warframe is Digital Extremes’ live-service multiplayer shooter about biomechanical combat suits fighting for the future … Read more

A jaw-dropping mod to remake part of Fallout 1 in Doom has resurfaced after 3 years of silence

Developer Alexander “Red888guns” Berezin has just released a new trailer for Fallout: Bakersfield, his project to recreate the ghoul city of Necropolis from Fallout 1 as an FPS campaign in the GZDoom Engine. The last we saw of Fallout: Bakersfield was a 55-second teaser all the way back in September 2022. Berezin’s incredible art and … Read more

The dairy industry would like Gen Z to drink more milk, so they made a Fortnite diner tycoon game

Diner Tycoon (Official Trailer) – YouTube Watch On Dairy MAX, an organization that represents some 700 dairy farmers, would like kids to drink more milk, and so they’ve sponsored a Fortnite Creative level. Diner Tycoon, a custom game mode inside Fortnite, was made as part of Dairy MAX’s Level Unlocked digital initiative, a plan “designed … Read more

Ubisoft’s annual financial report includes claim that monetizing games with microtransactions ‘makes the player experience more fun’

Ubisoft’s annual financial report isn’t exactly “for us”—that is, people who like videogames and not stocks—but surely someone at the company had to know saying microtransactions make games “more fun” in a publicly-available document wouldn’t play well. The report, filed on June 19, is pretty extensive, but only ten pages in, it dives into key … Read more