Jan 31
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Pokémon Sword and Shield were solid and all, but there’s a new Pokémon sheriff in town. And by “in town,” I mean “on…
Jan 28
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The first time I met Temtem’s monster-bequeathing hot dad science lad Professor Konstantinos, I immediately began…
Jan 22
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Improbably, a new Half-Life game is coming out in just a couple of months. To celebrate, Valve hosted an AMA on…
Jan 8
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I’m fairly certain that I haven’t played 8,400 games in my entire life, but that’s the number of new releases that…
Dec 11
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Far-right groups that often employed Nazi-inspired language have long been able to create ugly little dens on Steam…
Dec 10
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In the annals of holiday lore it said that, every year, after circling the globe on a carpet-sized copy of Death…
Dec 5
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Halo: Reach, Bungie’s final entry in its second (of three, so far) series about armored space knights, is finally on…
Nov 26
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We are gathered here today to bid farewell to the Steam Controller, the little gamepad that could in some cases, but…
Nov 26
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There are more than 30,000 games on Steam. When Valve removes the odd offender for breaking the rules by, say, being…
Nov 25
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Deep-pocketed companies like Valve and Oculus have been pushing virtual reality for years, but mainstream interest…
Nov 22
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From the start, the lead developer of Crime Opera: The Butterfly Effect, Sean Bester, wanted his game to be…
Nov 21
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Half-Life: Alyx, you might be dismayed to learn, is definitely not Half-Life 3. But it is a new “full-length” Half-Li…
Nov 8
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If you’re the sort of person who sees packs of animals majestically gallivanting about in forests or on the National…
Oct 30
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There are plenty of reasons to distrust any given individual Steam review. It might be obsessively hyper-focused on…
Oct 28
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Death Trash is a post-apocalyptic action-RPG set in an intriguing world. And by intriguing, I mean kinda gross. There are fleshworms, fleshkraken, and locations with names like the Puke Bar. But the game seems intent on marrying gross-out pulp appeal with smart design and player freedom; you can exit dialogue whenever…
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Oct 25
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The Drifter is a “pulp adventure thriller” from the makers of multiplayer dungeon bonanza Crawl. It sports a similarly expressive, chunky pixel style, but otherwise, it looks totally different. An adventure game inspired by classics but drawing on the pacing and narrative focus of more recent genre standouts, it stars…
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Oct 24
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Today, Valve’s ever-evolving auto-battler received its long-awaited “Big Update,” aka the one that finally adds…
Oct 22
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ArtFormer is a Prince of Persia-inspired action-platformer about the history of art. Each section of the game is in a completely different style, beginning with cave drawings and then progressing into Egyptian papyrus, Greek pottery, and Roman mosaics. They each come with their own stories and themes, too. It’ll be…
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Oct 21
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Unpacking is a puzzle game about moving your possessions into a new home. And by “your,” I mean “somebody else’s.” By unpacking and arranging objects—all of which click and clack oh-so-satisfyingly—you’ll gain “a sense of intimacy with a character you never see and a story you’re never told.” I, personally, was not a…
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Oct 10 2019
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Sometimes, you’d rather stretch out on the living room couch in your underwear than be the deli meat in a couch…