For your Friday afternoon viewing pleasure, a Counter-Strike bomb defusal so tense that I recommend consuming it alongside your Friday afternoon whiskey. 1Relyks posted a video in which he manages to sneak right past the terrorist team—mere feet behind them, at times—and defuse the bomb. The last handful of seconds is nuts. The enemy team…
The Steam Controller just got a much-needed new feature. As part of a big new beta update, you can now create multiple control sets within the same configuration and have them switch automatically. So, for instance, in GTA V you can get into an in-game car and have gyroscope steering turn on. Handy!
Steam has a lot of generic space shooters. I suppose this one’s at least being honest. Yes, Generic Space Shooter is an actual game’s actual name. I kinda love how candid its description is, though: “The aim of the game is very simple; SURVIVE! Try and survive for as long as you can, the longer…
Sometimes I try random Steam Early Access games on a whim. Often, it’s a very bad idea. Kona is a big exception to that rule. Kona is a snowbound mystery adventure that launched on Early Access yesterday. It’s a game about wandering through a (very convincing) blizzard as a private investigator in 1970s Northern Canada.…
I’ve always wanted to play a Pokémon game where, instead of being a ten-year-old warmonger, I got to settle down and participate in other aspects of the Pokéconomy. Now, with the help of a Stardew Valley mod, I can. Pokedew Valley is an ongoing effort to collect every Pokémon-themed Stardew Valley mod under the sun…
When Overwatch’s beta returned earlier this year, it added a progression system that rewards players with cosmetic loot like character skins. Initially, most of them were simple recolors. Now, though, they’re getting kinda ridiculous. The most recent Overwatch update brought with it a handful of new skins that are more in line with the rarest…
These days, it seems like Valve will let just about anything on Steam. Programs like Greenlight and Early Access make it easier than ever to get a game on the preposterously popular PC storefront. Some of these games are very bad. How does this happen? What is the process actually like? Redlight, Greenlight Most developers…
Overwatch recently got a big update, with a brand new Greece-inspired map as the centerpiece. It does not disappoint. Now that I’ve played a fair bit of Overwatch, I’ve come to appreciate that the game isn’t fun simply because of colorful characters and a wide range of abilities, but rather the interplay between maps and…
One of the best creators of modern point-and-click adventures just released a new game. Wadjet Eye’s Shardlight is about a sick woman taking on government oddjobs to find a cure that will save her life. It’s a more grounded tale than you’ll find in a lot of post-apocalyptic games. You can get it on Steam…
Prison Architect is a top-down prison management game that’s got some visual flair, but it’s definitely 2D. Tiny two-dimensional prisoners wander two-dimensional corridors, dreaming of two-dimensional freedom. Turns out, it doesn’t have to be that way. Recently, a handful of Prison Architect players posted videos about a secret button in the game’s extras menu. There’s…
Increasingly, I find mods to be representative of gaming communities’ ids, of their most fervent, unhinged desires. That in mind, the things Stardew Valley’s community wants most in this world are better fishing, Undertale throwbacks, Final Fantasy characters, and—yep—busty anime women. Despite only being out for a bit over a week, Steam farming sensation Stardew…
My hands shook. My heart pulsated like someone was ramming it through with a jackhammer. A weird light crept into the edges of my vision. I’d just gotten my first kill in The Culling, and I might have been freaking out a bit. The Culling is the latest out-of-nowhere Steam chart-topper, and it’s got quite…
Valve’s $3 million DOTA 2 Shanghai Major was, to put it lightly, a mess. True to form, it didn’t exactly end on a high note. After Team Secret’s come-from-behind (the entire tournament) victory, GosuGamers reports that players of all teams awoke the next day to find cleared out practice rooms. These rooms housed precious gear…
Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian board game that you might know better by its Milton-Bradley-ized name, Chutes and Ladders. Somebody is turning it into a first-person shooter, because of course they are. Snakes-N-Ladders: Origins—Episode 1 is the game’s full name, and it’s really… something. The original board game is a playable metaphor for…
Conor McGregor is one of my favorite fighters. He lost in devastating fashion on Saturday night, and I couldn’t be happier. I’m not a McGregor hater. I’m not laughing because the Irish motormouth, more giant golden wristwatch than man, finally flew too close to the sun. I know a lot of people are, but I’m…
Remember that great-looking Unreal Engine 4 fan remake of Metal Gear Solid? Remember how you’ve spent every waking moment since it was announced dreading its unceremonious cancellation? Well, haha, about that… The remake, which made ever our grumpiest Metal Gear skeptic, Luke Plunkett, go weak in the muscles he’s built up from years of playing…
The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti looks wild. Described as a “music-sampling, platforming, rhythm laser-light guitar solo kind of game,” it’s about a musician on a psychedelic journey to create a stage persona. Creatures have sounds, and you can sample them to make your own.
After a massive clusterfuck of crash bugs and sabotage accusations, Spintires is back on Steam. The popular driving game got removed from the PC gaming service earlier this week. Thanks to a new update, it’s no longer a pile of flaming wreckage.
Late last week, Gabe Newell very publicly fired a controversial commentator from the $3 million DOTA 2 Shanghai Major, calling him an “ass.” He also fired the production team. That, however, was apparently not enough to right a sinking ship. This week has seen all sorts of issues major and minor, from non-sound-proof commentating booths…
Mirage: Arcane Warfare is the new game from the makers of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. Mirage looks like it inherits the latter’s first-person sword shellacking, but instead of being all grim and gray, it’s colorful, ridiculous, and full of magic spells. Also I guess one of the characters is a giraffe person???
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