Just Cause developers Avalanche Studios are cutting staff and closing their Liverpool, UK-based studio following Microsoft's cancellation of co-op smuggling game Contraband.

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It's been a good half a year since FuturLab announced PowerWash Simulator 2, their follow-up to the very popular, and seemingly quite satisfying, original game. There's been various developer logs and tidbits of details shared in the intervening days, weeks, and months, but the one thing that's been missing so far is a release date. That was supposed to be revealed today, according to FuturLab themselves, but the game isn't quite ready on all platforms yet. Instead, they're offering up a demo so that you can get a taste of this newer, shinier powerwashing.

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It’s been a month since Gamescom 2025 lowered its shutters and sent ninety thousand nerds squeezing into the tiny Cologne tram station outside. In newsworthiness terms, a month’s time is roughly equivalent to five millennia, so this roundup of all the games I played at the show (but haven’t already covered elsewhere) comes with an admission of tardiness.

Also: excuses. Who knew Silksong would come out while I was still unpacking?

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Two thoughts kept occurring to me while playing through the first few hours of Baby Steps, the new masocore QWOPlike from Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy. The first was a Dara Ó Briain bit where the Irish comedian talks about hiring a personal trainer and, after complaining about being sore following a workout, he's told "That's because you're using muscles you haven't used in years!". To this, he replies: "Then why the fuck are we wasting our time with those> muscles?!"

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"That's not a minotaur, that's just a guy with horns," yells one of the YouTube commenters on the reveal trailer of Minos. They might be right with their Monty Python-esque accusation, but regardless of how much the maze-building roguelike and its developers Artificer have put the cat amongst the Greek mythology-loving pigeons, the demo that's currently out for it is good fun.

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