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Steam Game Festivals are one of my favorite new additions to the platform. Every so often, they’ll gather a group of released and unreleased games that are tied together by some common theme and carve out a little area of the Steam Store for them, then show off demos/livestreams of those games and sometimes even […]
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I just finished episode 1 of Crunchyroll’s new show Onyx Equinox, and now that I’ve signed up for Premium so that I don’t have to deal with any ads, I’m ready for my next point of order: immediately demanding a game in the Onyx Equinox world. This should not come as a surprise to loyal
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Slay the Spire. Dicey Dungeons. Griftlands. All great roguelike(/lite, whatever) deckbuilders AKA card battlers, and all games I have put plenty of hours into. However, I’ve recently come across what might just be my favorite. It’s called Urban Cards, and it feels like both a reach back into traditional board games and an evolution of
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Some people have a love-hate relationship with Kickstarter games. Sure, there have been some stinkers that didn’t live up to their potential (I won’t name any names), but there have also been plenty of wildly successful games that probably would not have been made if it wasn’t for Kickstarter (such as Divinity: Original Sin, FTL:
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One of the best parts of being a PC gamers is that you can buy games from a number of digital storefronts. However, some of these storefronts are gray market retailers that sell keys that are essentially stolen through credit card chargebacks or other means. G2A is one such example, and people have even said
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GOG, Steam’s DRM-free competitor, is currently running their winter sale until January 2nd. There are a bunch of great deals on games new and old (like Dex and Unreal Tournament 2004, both of which I bought yesterday for about $3.50), but the real star is the Ultimate Red Collection. The Ultimate Red Collection includes a
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Here at My Dpad, we recently cleared up some common misconceptions about PC gaming. However, PC gaming is not just great for how it compares favorably to consoles, but also on its own merits. This list is far from complete, but here are just a few reasons that people love PC gaming so much. Cheap
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If you’re a PC gamer, you probably see a lot of things out there about PC gaming from console gamers that are flat-out false. Now sure, we are not innocent in the platform war with the whole “PC gaming master race” thing, so let me just get ahead of that and say I think that’s
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Anyone who reads My Dpad knows I’m a big fan of Game Pass. One of the games available on PC Game Pass is Middle Earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Unfortunately, it takes up a whopping 98GB of space to install, and the first few minutes didn’t click with me when
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A few months ago, The Game Bakers studio (makers of Furi, among others), announced a game called Haven as a game to “play solo or co-op with a special someone”. The preliminary footage showed two interracial lovers (who roughly match my wife and I) holding hands and gliding around a colorful planet. We were sold,
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