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The 100 Steam Games That Made The Most Money In 2016
Today Valve announced the 100 games that have brought in the most revenue on Steam in 2016. The list is quite varied, ranging from top dogs like Grand Theft Auto V and the company’s own Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to more granular games like Stellaris The is the first time that Valve has put together such…
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PS4 Sizzle Reel Highlights Console Exclusives Coming In 2017
This latest trailer shows off a number of games planned for release on the PS4 sometime in 2017, including Detroit: Become Human and Horizon: Zero Dawn, as well as some smaller ones you might not have heard much about like Drawn to Death. Oh, and also Knack 2 That’s right. If we take Sony’s marketing…
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Here Are The 2016 Winners Of The First Ever Steam Awards
After over a month of voting, Valve today revealed the winners of The Steam Awards, or what amounts to a “greatest-hits” victory lap for some of the digital retail platform’s most played games. The awards were announced during the Autumn Steam sale near the end of November, with categories ranging from The “Whoooaaaaaaa, dude!” Award…
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The Adorable Story Of How Pokémon Go Helped Rescue A Kitten
On a particularly hot day last summer, Imgur poster Joelalmeidaptg was walking down the street playing Pokémon Go when they heard a kitten crying for help from behind a nearby electrical post. Months later, the cat, named Spock, is thriving in its new home thanks to an unlikely string of events. According to Joelalmeidaptg’s account,…
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Overwatch Player Shows How Curiosity Killed The Reinhardt
In Overwatch, if the fall doesn’t kill you, Mei definitely will. When Reddit user NinjaDuck25 saw a Reinhardt refusing to give up the chase, the Mei player decided to create an ice bridge that would buy just enough time for both heroes to duel. Despite the giant hammer swinging overhead, Mei made short work of…
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One Father’s Issue With Peach Getting Kidnapped In Super Mario Run
Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first mobile game, follows the standard Mario formula: Princess Peach gets kidnapped right away, and it’s up to Mario to save her. It’s for this reason that Chris Suellentrop doesn’t want his daughter to play it, as he wrote in an Op-Ed for The New York Times, saying, “the game is…
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The Year In Patch Notes [Updated To Version 1.02]
2016 was a fine year for gaming at launch, but over the course of the past 12 months various updates and bug fixes have made it even better. Here are some of the year’s finest patch notes. Can you tell which games they are from? Before we jump into the notes for this year’s update,…
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I Introduced My Mom To VR For Christmas And She Took It Like A Champ
On Christmas evening, after the rest of our extended family had fled to their respective homes, I hooked up my Oculus Rift to the new Razer Blade Pro, pushed aside the plants and cat food bowl on the keeping room table and introduced my 70-year-old mother to virtual reality. It went quite well. The idea…
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I Put A Bunch Of Celebrities In The Sims 4 And Drake Got Owned
In The Sims 3 and 4, you can upload your creations to a virtual gallery for other players to admire and download for their own games. This means that virtually every celebrity has been made and is ready to download from the gallery. Today I decided to just throw a bunch in a house to…
By Gita Jackson
