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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

Rock Paper Shotgun Oct 26, 2026, 3:12 PM (1 hour ago)

I’ve been tricked. Deep within the fine print of the Health and Safety and Wild Eldritch Creature Control License Edwin convinced me to apply for is a stipulation that I alternate shifts of Maw care with him.

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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

One of the days last week was October 23rd. It’s the date in the Fallout universe when the bombs dropped and has morphed into a time for yearly community happenings plus, in Bethesda’s case, usually some marketing.

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Elden Ring movie reportedly has a $200 million budget, and it’s the studio’s biggest bet ever

When cameras started rolling in the UK back in April, Elden Ring’s budget was reported at well over $100 million, with filming expected to last roughly 100 days. By June, in its coverage of Google’s $75 million investment in the studio, The Wall Street Journal put it at $175 million....

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Nvidia says RTX Spark games like an RTX 5070. I checked under emulation

They technically said a RTX 5070 mobile, but I didn’t have one of those on hand

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Steam is down for many —here’s what we know about the ‘loading user data’ issue

Thousands of Steam users are reporting being unable to log into the gaming platform today —here’s what we know about the ‘loading user data’ issue.

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Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre’s latest crime against perfectionists

I don’t much go for PowerWash Simulator-likes, but there is something appealingly unwholesome about a game in which you have to wipe the dust off an entire moon. Using a toothbrush.

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Despite initial player concerns, Capcom feels good about Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s difficulty, and says it has the data to prove it got it right

Even before Onimusha: Way of the Sword came out, the topic of enemy and encounter difficulty was a contentious one.

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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

One of my favourite hobbies is digging up older pieces of gaming tech or software know-how and asking myself: “man, what would the world have been like, if every GPU were made out of Gorgonzola?” Or less silly words to that effect.

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

In case you missed it, an internal trailer for the new Mass Effect game which BioWare were working on prior to EA shutting them down hit the net late last week. It offered a peek at what the studio were cooking with this new entry, dubbed Mass Effect Universe.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are, again, for running taxi duty for relatives visiting from overseas.

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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

I have no particular thoughts on what the afterlife may look like, namely because if there is one, and I’m allowed to hang out in it, I don’t want to be disappointed.

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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

“IT FLIPS UP,” Fallout New Vegas modders yell after releasing a funky Pip-Boy based on cancelled entry Van Buren’s design docs

Elden Ring movie reportedly has a $200 million budget, and it’s the studio’s biggest bet ever

Nvidia says RTX Spark games like an RTX 5070. I checked under emulation

Steam is down for many —here’s what we know about the ‘loading user data’ issue

Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre’s latest crime against perfectionists

Despite initial player concerns, Capcom feels good about Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s difficulty, and says it has the data to prove it got it right

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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

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

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