Petting dogs in games is old news: in boomer shooter Ripout, you can pet your gun

Ripout’s standout feature is not the retro-future 80’s aesthetic. It’s not the excellent gunplay, or the way little aliens that scurry around its industrial spaceships before attaching themselves to bigger aliens and coming to kill you. It’s not the looter shooter aspiration, nor is it the rogue-like setup of its levels. No, it’s the gun. Your gun. Your pet gun. That’s right, your gun is alive – and it’s not something incessant and irritating like your Johnson in Shadows of the D...