Author: Joshua Wolens
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You can pick up Dead Island: Riptide free to celebrate Dead Island 2’s inevitable hop to Steam
Here’s my toxic trait: I get annoyed when games aren’t on Steam. Not for any principled reason, not because I love my Steam Deck (though I do), and not even because Steam—per our own ranking of the PC’s many launchers—is the best client of the bunch. I just don’t like my collection being scattered all…
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Tribes 3’s Next Fest demo has me hopeful for a Tribes game that finally sticks
Here is what you need to know: Tribes 3—demo currently available as part of the ongoing Steam Next Fest—lets you ski backwards at 150 miles per hour while firing a chain gun at pursuers. On that basis alone you should probably go give it a try. All the best, most basic zones of your mammalian…
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Dead Cells is calling it quits 7 years after its meteoric early access release
Seven years after its early access release and five years after Evil Empire took the reins from the original devs at Motion Twin, Dead Cells is hanging up its spurs. In a statement earlier today, Evil Empire announced it “will no longer be working on Dead Cells” following a half-decade of work on the game.…
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake director would give an emphatic ‘No!’ if someone asked him for an FF8 remake, and FF8’s original director isn’t keen either
Call me an empath, but something tells me that remaking Final Fantasy 7 as a trilogy of slick, high-budget modern games is taking its toll on poor Naoki Hamaguchi, the remake’s director. In a recent chat with IGN, Hamaguchi and Final Fantasy 8 director Yoshinori Kitase were presented with the idea of a similar remake…
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Diablo 2 speedrunner effortlessly trolls audience by breezily selling ultra-rare rune it’s taken others 20 years to find
Your wedding day, the birth of a child: life is full of precious moments, but let’s be real, nothing compares to the narcotic thrill of trolling a helpless audience. No one knows that better than Kano, a Diablo 2 Resurrected speedrunner who recently subjected his viewers to emotional whiplash so severe it was probably illegal.…
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Anime more powerful than ever as Persona 3 Reload becomes the fastest selling game in Atlus’ history
People are very eager to conquer a couple hundred floors of Tartarus. At least, that’s what the sales figures for Persona 3 Reload suggest. Atlus announced earlier today that its gussied-up remake of the first modern-style Persona game has sold 1,000,000 copies across the world since its release on February 2, making it the fastest…
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Palworld’s latest patch stops its capture chance boosting items making capture chances worse, and prevents your breeding Pals from being sent to a farm upstate forever
If you can cast your mind back to last week, you’ll recall a Palworld bug that saw Lifmunk Effigies, which are supposed to increase your chances of successfully catching Pals, seemingly decreasing those odds instead. It was a minor scandal that saw players pull out their calculators to verify that—yep—their chances of catching Pals while…
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I levelled up ‘Grief’ and ‘Repentance’ in this bizarre Steam Next Fest demo about a Russian nun who chats with Satan, and it instantly became my most-anticipated game this year
No game has ever read The Master and Margarita as much as Indika has read The Master and Margarita. A third-person adventure game from Odd Meter, a Russian studio that left the country after the invasion of Ukraine, Indika already seems like so much more than that clatter of marketing-team-whiteboard genre adjectives makes it sound,…
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Palworld has now got a staggering 19 million players, an unstoppable rise that means it’s got a bigger population than the Netherlands
It’s official: Palworld has a bigger population than 127 literal countries, including Senegal, Somalia, the Netherlands, and Chad. That’s according to Pocketpair’s sales statistics and this Wikipedia list of countries by population, anyway, with the news that Palworld has now has a soul-boggling 19 million players around the world. That’s 12 million copies sold on…
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Free GOG keys for the objectively best Fallout game are on Twitch Prime right now
Friends, it’s once again time to remember that you apparently have a Twitch Prime subscription, and to go rooting through its myriad freebies like a hog hunting for truffles. Today’s truffle? Free GOG keys for the best Fallout game. No, not New Vegas. Not 2 either. Certainly not 3, why would you even say that?…