If you’ve ever harbored a quiet fear that all your friends are deceiving you, well, bad news: They are. Among Us,…
If you want to know if a game is good or bad, you read its Steam reviews—except in the case of Crusader Kings III.…
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Eight years after its announcement, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is finally out. Sorta: The long-awaited sequel to cu…
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It’s not every day that a series with as much legacy and history as Destiny suddenly orbital-drops onto Steam. This…
A week after its release, Remnant: From The Ashes remains at the top of the Steam charts. It’s safe to say that its…
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What is a Kickstarter-funded spiritual successor to Castlevania? Either a miserable or non-miserable pile of secrets…
Valve has posted a lengthy rundown of its thinking surrounding “positive” review bombs, ala what happened to Assassin’s Creed Unity in the wake of Ubisoft’s Notre-Dame efforts. In short, Valve isn’t sure how to handle them: “It doesn’t actually seem to be a review bomb in the way we’ve previously defined them, but…
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Over the past few years, review bombs—people organizing en masse to post negative reviews to a game’s store page to…
Since the dawn of video games—and possibly even the dawn of man—human beings have been creating city-building games.…
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