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It must be springtime because Overcooked 2 just announced its new DLC: Campfire Cook Off. Players are headed to the woods with a new map, twelve levels and some new campfire-themed recipes.
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Today, subscribers to the largest anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, were hit with a 15 percent price hike monthly…
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The words “video game addiction” elicit reactions ranging from disbelief to outright rage, and especially from gamers who feel their hobby is being unfairly criticized. Yet first-person stories of compulsive gaming exist. In The Atlantic’s new animated documentary I Was A Winner, published today, interviewees “are…
Ladykiller in a Bind creator Christine Love gives a talk at GDC about sex as a reward in games. “The problem with ‘the chase’ is that it’s one-sided,” Love explained to a room of Sexy Microtalks attendees. Love instead suggests making sex a crucial and indispensible aspect of gameplay, not just a reward. When sex is… Read more
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Neo Cab is an upcoming narrative game about the ride-share gig economy in the far future where drivers compete with self-driving cars. The player must regulate protagonist Lena’s mood, displayed on her biofeed bracelet, while also balancing her Neo Cab driver rating—two things that might come in conflict when a…
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Upcoming hack-and-slash RPG BloodRoots is all about its verbs: “smash, slice, crush, blast, crack, slam, burst,…
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If you’re looking for something to scratch that Inside-ish puzzle platformer itch, Stela, out later this year for Xbox and PC, just might. We gave the moody indie game a spin today for its debut at GDC and, so far, it seems tricky and beautiful.
The gaming platform Steam has cracked down on over 100 profiles memorializing the suspected shooter behind today’s…
According to five creators and sellers of aimbots and hacks who spoke with Kotaku, Apex Legends has become big…
Long-established is the purpose of friends. When you feel like you can’t do anything right, they remind you of the…
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It was right about when I scrolled past the virus festeringchunk2 (1) in my Download Manager and again heard the…
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The creators of Hyper Light Drifter just announced their upcoming game Solar Ash Kingdom, which appears to be a follow-up game.
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Indie publisher Raw Fury just revealed a hilarious and creepy trailer for their upcoming game Atomicrops. It’s a roguelite farming simulator where players raise “ultra-GMO” crops and “defend the last farm in the post-apocolypse wasteland.” Cute!
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While the majority of people who tune into Super Smash Bros. tournaments are in it for the nasty spikes and…
Pokémon Go developer Niantic and WB Games just gave us our first in-depth look at the gameplay for their next…
Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva,…
Online, we can be whoever we want—a bulked-up soldier, a freakish banana, Sonic the Hedgehog—only until we start…
At 4 a.m. last Sunday morning, Fresno County, California resident Eric Gan heard a loud banging noise in his house.…
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The only thing less fun than losing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is getting buried.
Last night, I finally encountered what top Apex Legends players are describing as a “neat trick” or an “OP strat”…