CD Projekt’s troubled RPG Cyberpunk 2077 won the Labor of Love category in the 2022 Steam Awards, given to the game that “is still getting new content after all these years.” But in the wake of the win, it’s become clear that not everyone feels that the correct decision was made.

Steam Award winners are chosen by vote, which means that a majority of users selected it over the other entrants in the category: Dota 2, Project Zomboid, No Man’s Sky, and Deep Rock Galactic. But in a way, Steam’s user review system means the Steam Awards are never really over. And sure enough, a slew of new negative user reviews were posted on Steam following the Labor of Love win, many of them expressing the feeling that it was the popularity of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners show on Netflix, and not the game itself, that put it over the top.

• “Labor of Love my ass, the game is where it should’ve released at. It only got labor of love cause of the weebs and the dumb anime.”
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Your Windows registry is not the sort of place you want game code to be constantly adding a whole bunch of unnecessary data to, but that’s exactly what Kerbal Space Program 2 has been doing. Presumably since it launched into Early Access, too.

KSP2 cannot catch a break. It was one of the poster children for a successful Early Access campaign—after an initial independent alpha stage—but pretty much all of that goodwill has evaporated with the release of this second instalment. It’s light on features, much lighter than the original game, and has suffered from a litany of performance issues.

And now a potentially system-breaking bug has been found, highlighting the fact that the game’s accessing the Windows registry regularly throughout the game—when you’re moving between loading a new save, or shifting between areas (planets or moons)—and writing new, unnecessary data into it over and over again.

Community managers and developers have responde…

It’s only been a little over a month since Microsoft first announced a new feature for Copilot+ AI PCs, called Recall. The idea behind the AI tool was that it would make searching through your PC’s use history easier but the public felt otherwise, pointing out that it had serious privacy and security concerns. Microsoft has updated the system to address some of these issues, adding the most important one of all—the option to disable it entirely.

The updates to Recall are covered in a Microsoft blog (via Ars Technica) and while the changes are only three in number, they’re pretty significant ones. The first, and most important one of all, is that Recall is now completely optional.

During the first run of your new Copilot+ AI PC, during the Windows setup procedure, you’ll be asked if you want Recall to be enabled. No prizes for guessing what most people will choose here.

Next, for added security, you’ll need to use Windows Hello to enable Recall and also to vie…

If you haven’t played co-op survival game Icarus, this is the weekend to give it a shot. To celebrate two years since launch, developer RocketWerkz is inviting everyone to visit their beautiful but extremely deadly alien planet: Icarus is free to play for the weekend.

As a bonus, if you decide you want to stick around past December 4, you can buy the game for 33% off. Not a bad deal.

If you haven’t been keeping up with Icarus lately, well, it’s been keeping up with its community. I think it’s genuinely one of the most responsive games out there in terms of reaction to community requests. Since it launched its added a number of new modes, including a complete open world (it was initially a session-based survival game), mounts, an expansive fishing system, new maps, and more. It’s also grown from an original roster of 35 missions to over 100, plus added lots of other, smaller quests.

Most impressively, Icarus began with about 150 craftable items and that number has s…

Let’s face it, humans have a natural tendency to fear the unknown. The Terminator, The Matrix, and movies like them have implanted the seed that AI is bad. Killer cyborgs and malevolent AI have become a part of the public consciousness. The rise of the AI industry has even led to extinction level concerns… from the AI industry.

But don’t go stocking up on ammo and baked beans just yet. Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center believes current AI models are little more than glorified tape recorders.

Kaku was interviewed by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria (via Business Insider). When asked for his thoughts on AI, Kaku said: “It takes snippets of what’s on the web created by a human, splices them together, and passes it off as if it created these things, and people are saying: ‘Oh my God, it’s a human, it’s humanlike.'” He goes on to say “AI cannot distinguish true from false”.

I find it hard to argue with his lo…

An Overwatch player messing around outside the boundaries of the map has discovered that the statue of Jesus Christ on Rio de Janeiro map Paraíso miraculously reflects all projectiles aimed at it with unerring accuracy. This is as opposed to Overwatch’s vaunted cyborg-ninja Genji, whose ability to deflect projectiles lasts at most a mere two seconds and must be used by players with perfect timing. The discovery was posted by user OmicronGaming to Reddit.

The Jesus statue on Paraiso (OoB) deflects any projectiles that are shot at it with an invisible barrier from r/Overwatch

The explanation for this is of course that it is a miracle, an act of divine providence by God to protect the world-famous statue Christ the Redeemer, or Cristo Redentor in the local Portuguese language.

Indeed, as evinced in the video, Christ’s divine protection extends not just to the statue itself but to the mountain it sits upon, Corcovado. In the…

I had some big gaming plans for the holiday break this year: I was finally going to start a second playthrough of Red Dead Redemption 2, build a new city in Farthest Frontier, and grab some friends to dive into Lethal Company.

I didn’t do any of that. Instead, I just played poker-inspired deckbuilder Balatro. Every single day I sat on the couch with my Steam Deck and played it for at least a couple hours. And it wasn’t even the full game, just the demo, which I still managed to sink 30 hours into. That meant I was pretty bummed when that awesome demo got pulled off Steam by its developer, LocalThunk, on January 1.

Today I’m firing my Steam Deck up again because that deckbuilder demo is suddenly back, and it’s got a ton of new cards for you to try out—including nearly 40 brand new jokers. Even better, along with the return of the demo, LocalThunk’s poker roguelike also has a launch date: Balatro will release on February 20. Here’s the new trailer:

To quickly s…

Overwatch developers have cited Quake as an inspiration for the hero shooter’s design for years. It has jump pads and a hero who can rocket jump. But in its upcoming season, it’ll finally have an entire map that looks like it was ripped straight out of the classic arena shooter.

Earlier this year, Blizzard held a Twitch stream where viewers helped design a map for the game’s goofy arcade modes. That map, called Talantis, will be fully playable in a limited-time arcade mode starting on April 25.

Talantis is an underwater map consisting of suspended platforms and jump pads that can fling you between them. It’s Quake’s The Longest Yard map, but with giant fish circling around it. No matter where you go on it, you’re always a few steps away from falling into the abyss. Lucio and Wrecking Ball players keen on booping enemies off the edge will surely thrive here.

Season 4 will have a space opera-themed battle pass, including a customizable Galactic Emperor mythic skin fo…