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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Facepunch studios - What They Never Told You

'We don't have to fire 1000 people to keep it working': Facepunch Studios says paying s&box game developers is sustainable, with '$500,000 paid out to date'

Developers can also export their games standalone to Steam: "No hidden percentages, no rug pulls, your work is yours."

Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'

Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'

However, Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman does use AI regularly: "It makes my job so much easier."

Facepunch Studios COO says he'll buy New World for $25 million, and he might not be joking: 'We're always looking for new opportunities and we are open to all avenues'

Facepunch Studios COO says he'll buy New World for $25 million, and he might not be joking: 'We're always looking for new opportunities and we are open to all avenues'

Amazon's fantasy MMO is slated to go away for good in January 2027, unless someone—say, Facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane—rides to the rescue.

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Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: 'If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out'

Facepunch spied some suspiciously familiar C4 in Delta Force's most recent trailer.

Rust doubles down on its 'controversial' meta changes by wiping everyone's crafting blueprints to 'bring back that sense of discovery', and it might become a regular thing

The latest update also adds mini-fridges and lets you use medical syringes on horses.

Bigger guns are louder and therefore riskier as of Rust's latest update, with other players able to hear you from 'much further away'

Facepunch's survival sim can now "run gunshots at different distances to the network range".

At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games

Players should no longer see pink checkerboards or giant ERROR models when they "play on community maps that expect you to have this content."

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Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'

Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'

Latest update also adds a party system and "improved erosion".

Rust's recently added rainforest is so dense the developers changed how resources spawn because players couldn't find them: 'The jungle was a bit too good at being a jungle'

Rust's recently added rainforest is so dense the developers changed how resources spawn because players couldn't find them: 'The jungle was a bit too good at being a jungle'

Facepunch's latest update also gives interiors a lighting pass and adds bee bombs for catapults.

Rust's crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw 'bee grenades'

Rust's crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw 'bee grenades'

A different kind of buzzkill.

Rust goes medieval with the Primitive update: siege weapons, swords and shields, and maybe a few jewel-encrusted assault rifles

Rust goes medieval with the Primitive update: siege weapons, swords and shields, and maybe a few jewel-encrusted assault rifles

OK, so it's not as historically accurate as Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

In survival game Rust, Santa Claus doesn't care if you've been good or bad or really, really bad, he still has gifts for you

In survival game Rust, Santa Claus doesn't care if you've been good or bad or really, really bad, he still has gifts for you

Hang up a stocking in your base and it'll be filled with goodies by Saint Nick (and no coal, even if you've been naughty).

Garry's Mod dev says he didn't want to sell it originally because no one would pay for it – 25 million copies later, he admits he was wrong

Garry's Mod dev says he didn't want to sell it originally because no one would pay for it – 25 million copies later, he admits he was wrong

We'll never get away from Skibidi Toilet

'Calm down!' says Facepunch Studios: Garry's Mod successor s&box is getting a fan-requested sandbox mode and an alternative to 'Sausage Men'

'Calm down!' says Facepunch Studios: Garry's Mod successor s&box is getting a fan-requested sandbox mode and an alternative to 'Sausage Men'

The game creation platform based on Source 2 now has a page on Steam.

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'Rust' Beginner's Tips & Tricks Guide: Learning the Basics of Survival

This beginner's tips and tricks guide for Rust helps newcomers learn the basics of the multiplayer survival game and how to last as long as they can.

Game server hosting provider Shockbyte partners with one of the largest survival games in the industry

Shockbyte has entered into a partnership with Facepunch Studios to offer exclusive in-game content for Rust players.

Garry's Mod dev responds to rumors that mass Nintendo takedown is fake: "I have been assured that the takedowns have been verified by Nintendo as legit"

Facepunch Studios has investigated reports that the DMCA was fake

Facepunch Studios Makes a Statement

Game developer wows visitors with stylish offices and sophisticated AV.

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This absurd GMod map is 2,048 times the size of the universe, requires 12GB RAM minimum: "Probably the biggest map ever in videogame history"

A GMod player has created an absolutely ridiculous map that's 2,048 times the size of our universe. Because why not?

Rust turns 10, and you can grab some goodies to celebrate

It's been a long road for the legendary survival game, and developer Facepunch Studios feels like celebrating.

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Facepunch Studios latest to take space at Birmingham's 103 Colmore Row

Video game developer and publisher has agreed a lease for the entire eighth floor of the newly opened office tower

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