It isn't particularly difficult to find a simulation game of some kind that allows you to carry out the most mundane of tasks these days. Now you'll have no trouble finding domestic chore life sims like Lawn Mowing Simulator or Leaf Blower Co. But once upon a time, games like House Flipper were all in there lonesome, a niche of a niche. And if you fancy seeing what the game that made games like these catch on is like in action, good news! House Flipper is free for you to keep over the rest of this weekend.

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Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two have seemingly held some layoffs this week. As spotted by Game Developer, the company's head of AI Luke Dicken shared a post on his personal LinkedIn page where he shared that both he and an unknown number of his team have been let go.

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Bungie is stepping in to take action against the Marathon Biotoxic Disinjector, admitting its ridiculous endgame gun is proving a problem. As one of the grand prizes from the endgame Cryo Archive raid, you'd expect something special from the red-tiered Biotoxic Disinjector, and it delivers. Combining trace rifle and grenade launcher, it's a versatile tool, but the latter half has become such an issue that the Marathon community has united in voice against it. It's giving those already at the top rung of the multiplayer game an unassailable lead, so the developer has pulled out the nerf hammer.

“What’s a ‘Gong Farmer’?” I asked Dennis Brännvall, the creative director of Star Wars: Battlefront and co-founder of Wayfinder Studios. We were chatting as I started playing Wayfinder’s upcoming co-op action RPG Wyldheart. One of the first decisions the game presents you is a riff on a classic: selecting your character’s very, very humble background.