Author: [email protected] (Tyler Wilde)
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Forget complaining about big game installs: Just the updates are over 30GB now
We’ve grumbled a few times about the engorgement of PC games—100GB is the new normal—but these days it’s not even the first install you have to worry about. This year, we saw 30GB and larger updates become commonplace. We lost the battle against file sizes years ago, and now we’re just being slapped around. I…
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Undisputed is an uncompromising boxing game that’s as likely to be boring as it is exciting, and that’s what makes it cool
Undisputed is the quintessential enthusiast videogame, where an industry outsider who just really likes something—pro boxing, in this case—takes it on themselves to make a game about that thing with all the elements they think it should include, regardless of what conventional game development wisdom may say. Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to…
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Twitch changes its mind about nude art after just 48 hours: ‘We went too far’
Twitch has taken back a rule change it made just two days ago. After seeing what some streamers did with the freedom to stream “artistic depictions of nudity,” the site said it “went too far.” The change was one of several adjustments to Twitch’s policies on sexual content and nudity made on Wednesday, and lifted…
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Sean Murray is risking another No Man’s Sky launch disaster, but he knows exactly what he’s doing and it’s kinda genius marketing
Hello Games founder Sean Murray didn’t have to go on The Game Awards and declare that the studio’s next game, Light No Fire, would take place on a planet that’s “bigger than earth” and “as varied as a universe.” His words didn’t get away from him in a Molyneux sort of way: He knows he’s…
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The mellowest social game I’ve ever played is getting a sequel: ‘There aren’t enough online spaces where strangers can be fearlessly open and caring’
It might not be entirely sensible to refer to Kind Words—full name Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)— as a “game,” but we argued about that distinction enough in the 2010s that I think we can sideline it for the remainder of this decade. I only mention it as context for what…
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The 7 most exciting PC games revealed at The Game Awards
Our full recap of this year’s Game Awards includes almost 50 trailers. At a minute or longer, it’d take over an hour to watch all of them, so we’ve distilled the night (which did also include awards) into just our favorite seven reveals. These are the 2023 Game Awards reveals we’re most excited about: Light…
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As a Rocket League purist with over 1,300 hours, I didn’t expect to like its Fortnite racing spin-off so much
I lit up when I first heard that Psyonix was making a Rocket League racing game. It’s something Rocket League players have been imagining for a long time: We love rocket-powered car soccer, but surely it could also be fun to perform automobile acrobatics in races? Then I heard that Rocket Racing wasn’t going to…
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The PC game releases we’re most excited about in December
December tends to be a pretty quiet month for game releases. It’s a time to look backwards—like at The Game Awards on December 7—and forwards at what’s coming in the new year and beyond. The big news in the latter respect, of course, is that December kicked off with the first GTA 6 trailer. We…
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No GTA 6 PC release announced
Last week, we speculated about whether or not Grand Theft Auto 6 will release on PC on the same day as consoles. Most of us predicted that Rockstar will once again wait a year or so after the console release date before dropping the PC version, and I regret to report that we were probably…
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Is Neopets making a comeback? How its new owners plan to revive a ‘living relic’
Back in July, the world’s Neopets nearly got sent to a farm upstate. The edutainment company that maintained the 24-year-old virtual pets webgame was shuttered by its owner, NetDragon, and all the Kortbats and Wockys and Blumaroos might’ve gone with it if a management buyout hadn’t kept the site alive. Now, for the first time…