Garry’s Mod Successor s&box Releases To Mixed Steam Reviews And An Influx Of AI Slop

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How do you combat user-generated game junk in the age of AI slop? Why did some players just get a cool, free otter backpack in Final Fantasy 14? And today’s big Arc Raiders update accidentally messed up a key feature. It’s your daily Kotaku Checkpoint for April 28, 2026. Everyone is dunking on the price of Valve’s $100 Steam controller, but what about paying $65 for a single button?

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Facepunch’s s&box is out and off to a rough start

Pitched as a “game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine,” s&box is like Garry’s Mod spun into Roblox. “The bones are there, they just need to support singularly ran servers and allow steam workshop support for the game,” reads one player’s assessment. Another was less kind. “s&box – an unfinished mess that doesn’t hold up against modern engines or actual game platforms,” they wrote.

There are also accusations that the game-as-creation-platform is being loaded up with low-effort AI slop. Facepunch founder Garry Newman said the team is aware of various complaints and working on improvements, including good player-created content pushing generative AI junk out of view.

“Low quality, obvious AI-created slop is going to be a growing problem in every creative outlet,” he told Rock, Paper, Shotgun. “We don’t encourage using AI to be creative. We don’t encourage using AI to create games for you. But we do acknowledge that it’s a good learning tool and it’s a good productivity tool. We’ll be taking action to promote human creativity and push obviously AI-created slop off the main page.”

Former Witcher 3 director thinks generative AI can be useful

“I think that companies should use AI, but in the way which helps people to work, not replace the people,” he said in a recent Q&A for his next game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, according to IGN. Rebel Wolves, the studio behind the upcoming RPG, used AI to voice scenes during the script-writing phase of development, but later removed them. A spokesperson was quick to state unequivocally that there will be no AI in the finished version of the game.

“I want to make one thing absolutely clear: nothing that’s in The Blood of Dawnwalker was created using generative AI,” they reportedly said. “Nothing. People with blood and flesh made this game from the beginning to the end.”

Yes, Resident Evil‘s Leon was named after THAT Leon

RE2 director Hideki Kamiya confirmed the horror thriller’s namesake 28 years later. It does indeed come from the Luc Besson film Léon: The Professional starring Jean Reno. “I’m surprised by all the reactions to Leon’s naming…Didn’t I mention it…? It’s not something to hide, and I think I would’ve answered if asked,” Kamiya wrote on X. “Back during development, I consulted with Mikami-san about naming the protagonist, and after getting shot down on a few ideas, I suggested, “How about we take it from that movie I watched the other day?” and proposed “Leon,” to which he said, “That works, doesn’t it?”

Jurassic Park star Sam Neill is cancer free and ready for more movies

“I’ve had a scan just now, and there is no cancer in my body. This is an extraordinary thing,” Neill told 7News. “Science at its best.” The recovery was due to a new cutting-edge CAR T-cell therapy treatment. He said he’s ready to start starring in new movies again, which I’m all on board with as long as they don’t de-age him again like we saw in a Super Bowl commercial this year. In the meantime, you can watch him tell you all about his beautiful plum harvest from last summer.

Otter backpacks have come to FF14, and no one knows why

Fans are confused but enjoying the neat surprise. Unfortunately, it’s a bug. “Upon investigating this issue, we confirmed that during data configuration, the internal ID for the ‘Senor Otter pack’ was mistakenly set to the same internal ID as the ‘Black Embroidered Parasol,'” reads a new notice on the MMO’s forum page (via PC Gamer). “As a result, if you have already obtained the ‘Black Embroidered Parasol,’ you will also be able to use ‘Senior Otter pack.'”

Mobile spin-off The Division Resurgence is now on PC, too

The free-to-play RPG looter shooter came to iOS and Android already and now has a technical test on PC ahead of its full launch in August during season 2.

Arc Raiders‘ newest update breaks crossplay

The developers are aware and working on a hotfix.

Will we ever get L.A. Noire 2?

Maybe, according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick. “You never know,” he said at this week’s iicon gaming event in Las Vegas, Game File reports. “The answer broadly is we’re looking at doing something in the future with all of our intellectual property, but nothing to announce.”