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Archives for December 2025

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
The new “slim” PC version of Helldivers 2 won’t tank your performance.

Last week, Arrowhead Game Studios announced that they are drastically reducing the file size of the PC version of Helldivers 2, bringing it down to just 23GB (from 154GB).

Testing by Digital Foundry shows that this “slim” version doesn’t have any noticeable performance drawbacks. Even on an HDD, it only took 6.3 seconds longer to load into a tutorial compared to the original version.

Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
Your move Steam.

Horses, the indie narrative horror game that’s been banned not only on Steam, but on Epic Game Store as well, is back for sale on Humble after a brief delisting. Here’s a quote from Santa Ragione explaining the situation courtesy of IGN:

“In short, their team saw the press coverage and temporarily delisted Horses to reevaluate it. After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal from their store.”

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Valve’s Android compatibility layer now has its official name, Lepton, and a cute frog logo.

The name Lepton appeared on Steam and SteamDB just a few weeks after Valve unveiled the Steam Frame headset, which will be able to run Android apps.

In our new interview with Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais, he mentioned the Frame uses “a similar compatibility layer as Proton, just targeted at Android.”

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The header image for Lepton on Steam
Image: Valve
Wooting’s 60HE v2 is a solid upgrade to the best gaming keyboard

Wooting has done a great job improving the sound and feel of its popular keyboard.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
RAM prices are out of control!

I knew RAM was being sold at market prices just like a catch-of-the-day at a seafood restaurant, but in the UK they must love really expensive lobster or something. One retailer, Curry’s Business, is selling 8GB of DDR4 for £120,000 ($159,000). If you add the UK’s VAT tax on it’s £144,000 ($190,000). I’ll take two, please.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Not all AI is created equal.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks rival storefront Steam should stop flagging when games are made with AI, because it’s going to be ubiquitous. In a sense he’s not wrong, but is there a difference between using AI for coding compared to creativity?

indieman:

AI code is different from AI art and writing. Every developer uses autocomplete (which is a form of AI, even before LLMs) and it would be dumb to have disclaimers for that. What people don’t want is AI slop in the games, and that comes from outsourcing artwork and scripts to gen AI.

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