No Man’s Sky has been spitting out cosmic adventures for seven years and, despite not meeting expectations at launch, has evolved into an incredibly varied sandbox thanks to Hello Games’ fantastic post-launch support. With free, expansion-sized updates coming out every year, it keeps beckoning players back.

This month, according to Hello Games founder Sean Murray, is actually its “biggest” in the last few years, despite competition from the long-awaited Starfield, another sandbox that ticks a lot of the same boxes.

This is across all platforms, says Murray, but on Steam alone it’s had its best month since September 2021, and one of its best months overall. It’s quite the achievement for a game of this age. It’s worth noting that its largest update of the year arrived in late August, followed by a new Expedition at the start of this month, so both of these things are major contributing factors. 

A narrative is already forming that this boost is due to disappoin…

YouTuber Bouch is no stranger to Baldur’s Gate 3 challenge runs. He’s beaten the game by finishing every fight in a single hit; he’s beaten it by throwing underwear; he’s beaten it without using any movement speed. What else is there left to achieve? Well, where Alexander might’ve wept for want of worlds to conquer, Bouch turned into himself cheese. And yes. He beat it.

As reported by GamesRadar, to even begin his cheese quest, Bouch had to take a crack at mod creation. By rewriting a line in the already-existing Select Your Statuses mod, Bouch gave himself the ability to turn into a cheese wheel by toggling on the Polymorph: Cheese spell—a spell that in a just world would be the highlight of every wizard’s repertoire, but in Baldur’s Gate 3 is only used by a single djinni in Act 3. Having successfully authored one of the world’s most specific game mods, Bouch rolled off in cheese-shape towards adventure.

You’ll be shocked to learn that the combat capabilities of …