If you’re at all familiar with Deadlock, you might remember some hullabaloo about its ‘open secret’ status during early testing. Valve’s new MOBA/shooter was kept very much under wraps, with the company playing coy right up until the finish line. Even now, it’s still invite-only. Why? Beats me, since getting a pass to go play isn’t really hard.

Valve really likes its secret playtest servers, though, as a top Deadlock streamer by the name of Deathy accidentally popped open the wrong client while on Stream. They quickly deleted it, mind, but the internet is forever, and players with a quickdraw print-screen snapped some images (via Eurogamer).

What those images reveal is that Deadlock now has a second, more secret playtest tucked inside the first one. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a third, even more occult playtest you had to access by blending and drinking a piece of Gabe Newell’s yacht, or something. How far down does this thing go?

Space Marine 2 might not have landed quite as surely as some of us hoped (see Robin Valentine’s rather mixed review), but it looks like a game that can take a hit and keep on trucking. Ever since release, there’s been a dedicated scene of 40k fans tweaking, tuning and adding extra cosmetic gubbins to the game, but most projects pale in comparison to the Astartes Overhaul, an ongoing ‘lore accurate’ mega-mod by the Astartes Team that adds new classes, weapon and cosmetics as well as comprehensively reworking the post-campaign Operations mode.

While this mod has been around and kicking for a while, it just rolled out one of its most significant updates yet, featuring two more classes, cross-class customization options, an experimental 12-player mode (this mod is fully multiplayer compatible, so long as all players are running the same version) and even a first taste of Terminator power armor, for when absolutely every Tyranid in the room needs to die right now.

In what may be the most metal crossover ever, Bethesda has teamed up with Harley Davidson in creating an incredible one of a kind Doom motorcycle. The bike takes its inspiration from next in the hellishly good series, Doom, in this case, Doom: The Dark Ages; A medieval take on the demonic devastation of Earth. While it’s a slightly confusing premise, the resulting one-of-a-kind ride is one I’d happily rip and tear for.

The Sportster S motorcycle decked out in Doom livery is probably the coolest motorbike I’ve ever seen, which is an achievement given the inherent coolness of motorcycles. The whole thing has been crafted in collaboration with artists at id Software and as such it absolutely oozes Doom- though hopefully not out of the fuel tank. Really, a motorbike might be the perfect companion for a game that has “the best gore in the industry”.

Us old-school rogue-likers are eating good. It feels like we’ve barely had time to digest the fantastic ‘final’ version of Caves Of Qud (there’s more coming, of course), and already we’ve got another massive indie roguelike passion project to dive into. Approaching Infinity by micro-indie outfit Ibology has been in development for over twelve years now. It’s a massive turn-based sandbox heavily inspired by classic Star Trek, and now freshly launched out of early access after many an update.

From what little I’ve played (and I do hope to pour more time into this one), Approaching Infinity is just about everything you’d expect when you hear ‘Star Trek roguelike’. You’re the highly customizable captain of an equally modular ship, assembling a crew of specialist oddballs and rank-and-file staff to keep your exploration boldly going and your reactor from exploding. There’s planets to survey, problems to solve, shipwrecks to explore and an assortment of strange aliens of varying levels of friendliness to meet.

Approaching Infinity Gameplay Release Trailer 2025 – YouTube

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