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November 30, 2025

It’s 2025’s most notorious flop, but you can now try this would-be GTA rival for free, and it really can only get better

Mindseye, launched in June 2025 by Build a Rocket Boy, is an action game that received poor reviews and faced significant issues at launch, leading to employee layoffs. Founder Leslie Benzies attributed the game's failure to external sabotage. Despite ongoing turmoil, the team is working on updates, including a free demo released with Update 6, which offers a portion of the campaign and player-created content. The free starter pack weighs under 50GB and includes a 15-minute main quest and 14 additional challenges, although the free-roam feature has been removed. The complete game is currently available at a 50% discount, priced at .99 / £27.49.

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September 30, 2025

Blumhouse Games and EYES OUT Release PC Demo for SLEEP AWAKE on Steam

Blumhouse Games and EYES OUT have released a playable demo for the horror title SLEEP AWAKE, available for download on Steam. The game is set in a dystopian city where inhabitants struggle to stay awake against a force called "The Hush." Players assume the role of Katja, navigating through a reality filled with death cults, puzzles, and unsettling truths. The gameplay combines traditional mechanics with full-motion video sequences, featuring stealth, survival, and chase elements. The demo showcases symbolic environments, puzzle-solving, and enemy encounters, while the narrative explores themes of loss and grief. The game requires a 64-bit system and a minimum of 16 GB of RAM, with modern hardware recommended for optimal performance. A release window for the full game has not been announced.

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April 9, 2025

Horizon Forbidden West gets rare, hefty discount

The price of Horizon Forbidden West has dropped from £49.99 to £25.99 on CD Keys, marking the lowest price observed in some time. The game is set six months after Horizon Zero Dawn and follows the protagonist, Aloy, as she uncovers the origins of a mysterious plague in a post-apocalyptic landscape. The Complete Edition includes additional content such as the Burning Shores story expansion. This offer is available for players in the UK and is expected to sell out quickly.

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March 7, 2025

Robocop: Rogue City is getting a ‘standalone expansion’ that sounds an awful lot like The Raid

RoboCop: Rogue City was released in 2023 and received a "very positive" rating from over 11,000 user reviews on Steam. A standalone expansion titled RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business is set to be released in the summer. The expansion will take place in Old Detroit, featuring the OmniTower and themes of gentrification. It will include new weapons, finishing moves, special missions related to Alex Murphy's past, and intense flashbacks of his life before becoming RoboCop.

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March 6, 2025

A demo for a lost videogame based on George Orwell’s 1984 has emerged from the memory hole

In the mid-1990s, MediaX, a US-based studio, conceptualized a video game titled Big Brother, inspired by George Orwell's 1984. Players would assume the role of Eric Blair, navigating a dystopian landscape with government installations to sabotage, across twelve levels filled with puzzles and challenges. The game was initially unveiled at E3 in 1998, with a planned release in September of that year, but faced delays and was ultimately canceled by 1999 or 2000 due to licensing issues. Despite its cancellation, a video showcasing its gameplay has been preserved by the Internet Archive. The game resembled a first-person adventure similar to Myst, with a graphical style like Quake, and included tasks such as locating tools and manipulating environmental elements. Another adaptation of 1984 is currently in development by the Narrative Designer behind games like Subnautica and Talos Principle.