First-person? In a city builder? It might sound strange, but there’s nothing quite like getting your city humming along to a perfect, efficient rhythm and then having a leisurely look around. Now you can see all of Cities: Skylines‘ smallest details. The mod, along with thousands of others (already!), popped up today, one day after…
Dad By The Sword might have the best premise I’ve heard all year. I can’t even do this proper justice. Read what the game’s creators have to say: “Dad By The Sword is a First Person Sword-combat game about YOUR DAD running around in jean shorts as he slays Anti-Dads with a claymore and various…
Some games have permadeath, where death causes you to lose a character forever. Upsilon Circuit, however, has perma-permadeath. If you lose, you can never play the game again. The fantasy RPG plops specially selected players onto a single server and divides them into two teams of four. This means only eight players will ever be…
When Valve unveiled the first prong of their living room invasion, the Steam controller, it was unique, but also hella wonky. Since then, it’s been through multiple revisions and overhauls. The result? Something not quite as good as a mouse-and-keyboard, but close. Back when I first tried the Steam controller, it was all haptic feedback…
A Portal/Talos Principle world collision of puzzlers was bound to happen, and this one is absolutely brilliant. Bravo, The Man Who Hears Colors The Steam Community Showcase is a regular look at the cream of the Steam community’s boundless crop. Art, videos, guides—whatever. Each installment highlights a specific piece or person. If you find anything…
Steam Greenlight is a mess. It’s a system for bringing lesser-known games onto Valve’s store that doesn’t really help people who play games or make them. Two years ago, Valve said the plan was to kill it and replace it with something less broken. And yet, here it remains. So, what’s next? First, the good…
Road trips are rad. You cram into a car with your best pals and explore the great unknown. Or a series of traffic-ridden highways en route to a music festival. Still, it’s the journey, not the destination, that counts. I’m glad games like Final Fantasy XV, Overland, and The Flame In The Flood are finally…
Video game conventions are great… mostly. But every convention has its thorns, which often take the form of snotty, achy, barfy sicknesses. Now that both GDC and PAX East have come to pass, are you a flu-ridden ball of misery? If so, what are your symptoms? Have you caught anything in the past or at…
Valve does a lot of things right, but they also have a reputation for leaving fans in the dark. What’s going on with Counter-Strike updates or Steam Greenlight’s brokenness or Half-Life 3? We rarely find out until release day. This leads to fans who are confused at best, pissed at worst. Valve knows, and they…
Some games have secret endings that people don’t uncover until days, weeks, or even months after they’ve come out. Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon is trying to one-up them all. You won’t be able to beat it unless the real moon—yes, the one in the sky—is glowing just right. The net effect of that…
“Have you ever tried VR porn?” Vander Caballero asked me. The video game developer was trying to convince me of VR’s potential to revolutionize intimacy. “Do you want to try it right now?” Of course I said yes. Of course I did. It’s hardly what I expected from my demo session of his new game,…
In the past, I’ve expressed a healthy amount of skepticism about VR. In 20 minutes, Valve’s VR demo sold me on the concept. Mostly. I was there. One second, I was in a small, bland cubicle room with a Valve employee and his good friend, a shelf, and the next I was in a pristine…
Valve’s virtual reality demo at the Game Developers Conference melted my brain. Afterward, my mind swam with possibilities. So of course, I ignored most of them and asked the age-old question: “Half-Life?” Surprisingly, Valve actually had an answer for me. The short version is: Valve has tried using Half-Life characters, settings, and ideas in VR,…
That’s why Kotajiro wrote a guide on how to make your own girlfriend in out-of-nowhere survival hit Stranded Deep. Just a couple quick modifications, and it works perfectly for the splinter-ridden dude of your dreams too. For the dirty minded among you, no, your all-too-literal stick figure guy or gal pal isn’t for sticking your…
Steam Early Access might be a drag sometimes, but it isn’t always. Here’s Eurogamer with a list of ten Early Access games that are delivering on what they promised. Which ones have you played?
Not all World of Warcraft players are on board with the idea of selfies—that most modern of photography, um, “techniques”—infiltrating their fantasyland home away from home, but the ones who are really dig them. Here are some of the best. First, complete chaos from talesoflumin: Here’s bluhawke with a selfie mid-raid: A stealthie deep in…
I spent most of my life religious—Christian, to be specific. Semi-recently, however, that small part of me died. Or maybe I killed it myself. I know one thing for sure, though: video games had a hand in it. I recently started playing Cults and Daggers, a large-scale turn-based strategy game in the mold of games…
Fuck those jerks over at Filthy Burger. Seriously, fuck ’em. They think they can get more customers than me with fancy signs? Well… well, they might be right. Grab Them By The Eyes is a new free game from Terry Cavanagh, best known for mega-hard games like Super Hexagon and VVVVVV, but also the mastermind…
No, Euro Truck Simulator 2 will never be a candy-coated, wonderment-oozing Nintendo platformer, but what a cool effect in this piece from jm_. New cover art, anyone? The Steam Community Showcase is a regular look at the cream of the Steam community’s boundless crop. Art, videos, guides—whatever. Each installment highlights a specific piece or person.…
It’s hard not to marvel at the boundless (sometimes disturbing) creativity with which people approach Steam construction mega-hit Besiege. This, though, is different. Cold, mechanical precision. Infinite versatility. Doom. OK, maybe Niet Ivo‘s Doom Copter doesn’t look quite as intimidating as its suggests, but make no mistake: it will fuck your shit up. Well, if…
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