The human world is a tedious place consisting of grocery trips, laundry and tax returns, so let's all go be janky-ass wolves. We shall coordinate to bring down elk amidst the engulfing winter snows of the Yellowstone Caldera, duel with cougars under starbound skies, and do adorable bellywiggles in what is possibly our own poop, though I'm not sure if the simulation covers the entire lupine digestive cycle. If that's not enticement enough, we can do some wolf sex and raise a litter of cubs together. We shall manage our cubs by means of leather spreadsheets that look like they were recently mauled by hungry, horny wolves.

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Killing Floor 3 has an excellent headshot. It’s the kind of frisson-inducing gun/baddie interaction that most FPS games strive for and fail: somehow crisp and explosive at once, like popping a balloon full of wedding china. There’s a deliciously tangible sense that a metal cylinder has launched out of your hands at several times the speed of sound and shattered the entire existence of the snarling cannibal clone in front of you, a tactile treat that KF3’s waves of mutant men will happily feed you over and over again. Bloody good headshot, I say.

I just wish that, after hours and hours, this game would produce something else> that excites as much as its dome-blasting. Or, at least, balances that instant gratification with more enduring reasons to keep tooling up and shipping out. Instead, it ends up coasting on gunfeel, and when asked for something new or something fresh, can only point towards pages of tedious stats.

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Microsoft have become the latest company to start introducing age verification measures in response to the the Online Safety Act that's just come into force in the UK. Folks logging into Xbox services with a Microsoft account from today will start getting optional notifications directing them to verify they're over 18, with the checks becoming a hard requirement in early 2026.

To be clear, these checks are UK-only for now, in line with this new legislation that aims to stop users who aren't verified as over 18 seeing content that's illegal or deemed unsuitable for children.

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Update: this article has been changed to reflect the fact that while Mouthwashing has been delisted from Itch.io, the platform owners say this is an older change and has nothing to do with the new NSFW policies described below.>

Last week, Itch.io delisted thousands of games featuring various kinds of "NSFW" material, rendering them invisible to anybody searching or browsing the site. Other developers reported that their games had been taken offline entirely.

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Amazon has rolled out major price cuts on the latest GPUs, making it a great time to upgrade your gaming rig. There are big savings across the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5060 series cards, along with solid discounts on AMD’s RX 7900 XTX, 7700 XT and 9060 XT. These deals cover every price bracket, from high-end 4K powerhouses to budget-friendly 1080p options. If you’ve been holding out for a new graphics card, this is one of the best times to buy.

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The Cyberpunk 2077 modder behind a bunch of the game's most popular romance mods is set to make NPC showering an optional extra in two of their works, with the hopes that these "non-sexy mods" will no longer be "hidden unnecessarily".

Their decision comes as a response to recent changes Nexus Mods have made regarding creations that're classed as "adult", something the modding site's done as a result of the Online Safety Act coming into force in the UK. The legislation's seen the likes of social media and porn sites also have to adopt new age verification checks before allowing users to access a range of content deemed unsuitable for children.

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Valve have released a revamped Steam store menu in beta, so folks can give a number of changes a whirl and offer feedback ahead of the full rollout.

As the pipe-themed company wrote in a news post about the menu emerging from the labs for this testing, the main goal of its changes is to offer "easier access to the places Steam users most frequently visit". Insert joke about the sorts of weird stuff one can have lurking in their Steam library here.

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This week's big news is that Graham is leaving RPS. Graham, the rock upon which all of our bullshit is built. Graham, the last link to Treehouses gone by. We shall not see his like again. Expect supernatural calamities in keeping with such a terrible loss: rains of frogs, Atari reinventing Pong as a 100 hour gacha RPG, mass hysteria. Still, the wheel of releasing cranks on. Here's what's new in PC games this week.

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