Author: Harvey Randall
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2018’s best platformer now has an adorable Mario 64-style tribute made by the game’s original dev team for its 6th anniversary—and it’s completely free
Celeste is one of the best platformers in the past decade—it’s a game with a heartfelt, deeply affecting narrative that’s also just really damn good at what it does: Complex 2D platforming with a skill ceiling so high it’s nudging the moon. Now you can play it in 3D, kinda. Celeste 64: Fragments of the…
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Real-life Team Rocket robs 35,000 Pokémon cards from a store despite using a blocked entrance, crawling around on their hands and knees, and missing a major release by 2 whole days
Card games are serious business—with a massive heist gone wrong at Gencon and an entire art gallery event ruined by hungry scalpers forming just part of the hobby’s high-stakes controversies last year. These things are worth a lot of money—and where there’s money, there’s theft. As reported by ABC7 news, A store by the name…
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Pyrene is a promising roguelike deckbuilder with all the overpowered builds your synergistic heart desires
I recently had the pleasure of playing a dash of Pyrene—and as someone with an upsetting amount of hours logged in games like Slay the Spire, I had a grand old time. Pyrene is a deckbuilding roguelike from developer team Two Tiny Dice, a studio headed up by Christophe Coyard—the mind behind the similarly-designed Escape…
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Blizzard employee snags a decade of WoW game time just before being laid off, will not have to pay a cent until 2033
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The recent deluge of layoffs at Blizzard (and Microsoft’s wider gaming division) has been utterly brutal—especially since several employees uprooted their lives to come and work at the company, with some employed there for just four months. While there’s no way to soften that sort of blow, one crafty ex-Blizzard employee did manage a small…
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League steps on one last rake for the road by sneaking in Denuvo DRM
I’m genuinely hoping Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League doesn’t sink itself. There is something to be said for live-service fatigue, but I am not immune to the appeal of numbers going up, and it looks like it could conceivably be a good time. Here to punch another hole in my hope-boat is the news…
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We regret to inform you that Palworld has a smutty lizard ‘seeking a night of love’ with humans, which raids bases in hordes of ‘rampaging fangirls’
Palworld is an edgy game—more in implication than reality. While it’s grown a reputation for a Happy Tree Friends-style subversiveness, everything in its world is pretty sanitised. For instance: Pals eat human cadavers, but they just peck at them until they vanish. The whole game feels like a send-up of Pokémon’s simmering ‘it’s messed up…
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Palworld isn’t good enough—or bad enough—to warrant us losing our collective minds over it
Sometimes a game will make its way into the public spotlight not because it’s good, inventive, or bad—but simply because it is. It captures a specific moment and gets a bunch of attention at a specific point of time. A small moon that casts a big shadow, like a solar eclipse. Palworld is one of…
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Enshrouded’s promising early access has a problem—quest progression is server-wide, which means a single player could hog all the fun times to themselves
Enshrouded is in its early access period, and while it’s got some refinements to make to its formula, it looks like it’s doing well for itself. At the time of writing, the game’s rated “Very Positive” on Steam—though early days aren’t necessarily a sign of the future. As spotted by our friends over at Gamesradar,…
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A livestreamed D&D one shot will take place inside the vagina of the game’s biggest monster, and it’s for a good cause—science and education
I did not misspell ‘critical’ in that subheadline. The D&D streaming show Science & Sorcery has teamed up with the UK’s Vagina Museum to host a money-raising one shot—titled Clitical Hit—to help promote the museum’s mission statement of raising awareness regarding “gynaecological anatomy and health”. While Science & Sorcery does have long-running campaigns, it also…
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Palworld releases roadmap with big promises but no dates: PvP, new islands, raid bosses, and an end to Game Pass woes
Palworld has taken off—with a huge player count that’s set Steam records, its own controversies surrounding unfortunate game mechanics, and AI worries. Now it has a roadmap, as posted to the game’s official Discord server this morning. (Image credit: Pocketpair) The top priority for developer Pocketpair appears to be bug fixes, like stopping your save…