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Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap
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Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap

Say you’ve sprung for a Steam Machine, and are pondering how to put a personal mark on your new black cube. Upgrading the internals? Bit of a faff, it turns out. Playing with the lighting strip? Maybe, but it’s blue by default, and research has shown that blue is already the best colour. No, aquamarine only came fifth. That front faceplate, though, is ripe for replacement, and there are already certain retailers and craftspeople who’ll happily charge you to cover your Steam Ma

Rock Paper Shotgun 01.07.2026 15:19 Uhr
Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is getting two new scenarios - a Fallout-style nuclear wasteland, and an early noughties world of UFO sceptics
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Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is getting two new scenarios - a Fallout-style nuclear wasteland, and an early noughties world of UFO sceptics

I had been feeling guilty about not completing my first bout of sci-fi grand strategy game Terra Invicta – six months on from my 1.0 write-up, I'm still trying to colonise my first asteroid - and now here come developers Pavonis Interactive to smother us in nuclear fire. And swanky new spaceship designs. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 01.07.2026 14:27 Uhr
GTA 6 devs have to opt-out of crunch, claim Rockstar North insiders, because it's baked into their contracts
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GTA 6 devs have to opt-out of crunch, claim Rockstar North insiders, because it's baked into their contracts

Three current Rockstar employees in the UK have accused the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio of effectively baking crunch into their contracts, overseeing a widening gender pay gap, and weaponising bonuses to make workers more compliant, in a new report. It comes as Rockstar gear up for the much-trumpeted console release of GTA 6 this November. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 01.07.2026 14:24 Uhr
Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again"
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Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again"

Helldivers 2's latest in-game campaign sees the champions of strategically mitigated democracy supervising the construction of yet another massive wall of pine-scented gas in space. Kicking off with the Frontlines of Freedom update, out now, it's a bid to keep those evil "fascist" Terminid insects away from Super Earth, building on the foundations of the abortive original "Termicide" campaign back in March 2024. It's also a pisstake of US president Donald Trump's dreams of constructing a massiv

Rock Paper Shotgun 01.07.2026 13:15 Uhr
Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard
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Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard

If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren't too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I've got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs Archetype Entertainment have decided to set the majority of protagonist Jun Aslan's face in stone to make him a more defined person, leaving only the likes of hair and tattoos fo

Rock Paper Shotgun 01.07.2026 12:07 Uhr