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Stick It to the Stickman Review: The Best Workday You'll Ever Hate
Free Lives' rogue-lite physics brawler leaves Early Access as a gloriously stupid corporate satire. Cheap, chaotic and hard to put down, if a bit samey in long sessions. Score: 8/10.

"Xbox is not for sale" - fine, but what exactly are we keeping?
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shut down buyout talk while the company cuts 3,200 jobs and parts ways with several studios. For players in our region, the real question isn't who owns Xbox, but what's left in it.

LEGO PlayStation is out now for Insiders - and a tiny Astro Bot comes along for free
The near 1:1 LEGO version of the original PlayStation is available now to LEGO Insiders for $179.99, with a free LEGO Astro Bot as a gift with purchase. Everyone else can buy it from October 4.

Arc Raiders devs admit the monthly update treadmill broke them - and that's the right lesson
Embark's executive producer Aleksander Grøndal says the plan for monthly Arc Raiders updates was too ambitious and left the team exhausted. As someone who lives in shooters, I'd take fewer, cleaner patches every time.

Nivalis Nights Review: Cozy Cyberpunk, Heavy on the Kitchen
Cloudpunk's creators swap delivery runs for noodle stands and nightclubs. The city is gorgeous and the loop is soothing, but the management side outweighs the mood and PC demands are steep. Score: 7/10.

Mexico joins the digital ownership fight - and that matters for us too
Mexican lawmakers want better consumer protection for digital games. It's another country on a list that already includes the EU, and a sign that 'you only bought a licence' is losing its grip.

Star Fox 1.2.0 Is Out, and Four-Player Split-Screen Is Back on the Couch
Nintendo's free Star Fox update for Switch 2 adds four-player split-screen Battle Mode, new stages and tweaks across the whole game. Ana is already clearing space on the sofa.

Deadlock adds six heroes and 10,000 voice lines - and it's still invite-only
Valve's biggest Deadlock patch yet brings six new heroes, a spooky makeover for the city and over 10,000 new voice lines. Rene argues the invite-only playtest is starting to hold the game back.

The Witcher 3 Remastered costs nothing - but read the fine print first
CD Projekt Red's free Remastered edition of The Witcher 3 lands today on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and both old expansions are now free for all owners. Great deal - with a few catches worth knowing before you hit download.

Naughty Dog Teases Two New The Last of Us Projects - and Intergalactic Gets Its Full Reveal in 2027
On The Last of Us Day, Neil Druckmann teased two projects in very early development that expand the series beyond Part I and Part II, and promised a full reveal of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet next year. Still no release window.

Minecraft Dungeons II Review: Bigger, Smarter, a Bit Padded
Mojang and Double Eleven go semi-open world, add jumping and a much deeper gear system. It's a great-value co-op dungeon crawler that runs out of new ideas before it runs out of map. Score: 7/10.

Witcher 3 Remastered wants an RTX 5080 for path tracing - and its "60 fps" comes with an asterisk
CD Projekt's full PC spec sheet for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered is out, and the path tracing tier leans on upscaling and frame generation to hit 4K/60. The bottom end is surprisingly kind, though.