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It’s just about prime holiday shopping season, and I expect a lot of people will be in the market for affordable gaming laptops as Christmas presents. Even if you’re limiting yourself to a budget of $1,000, here are five great options. Three of them don’t even cost $700, meaning you can get a gaming laptop […]
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If you love classic RPGs as well as more modern RPGs and you also love free games, you’re in luck. GOG is currently giving away the Wasteland 2 Director’s Cut for free, which includes Wasteland 2 as well as the original game, Wasteland 1. All you have to do is go to GOG and claim
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If you’ve been following My Dpad, you know that we’ve previously recommended Google Play Pass. The subscription service has a bunch of great games and non-game apps, and is generally a solid deal. However, I have decided that it’s not a great deal for me, so I’ve cancelled (set to take effect in a few
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We recently wrote about how Humble Monthly was a great subscription service for PC gamers. However, for anyone who wasn’t grandfathered in, Humble Monthly is now Humble Choice, which works a little bit differently. You know which games you’re getting, but you do have to pay a little bit more. Let’s dive in. A Subscription
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Zen Pinball is a great way to get your pinball fix on the go, whether that’s a mobile phone, a PS Vita, or a Nintendo Switch. It is true that the tables are fairly simple (and can’t hold a candle to the frantic interactivity of Demon’s Tilt), but the base gameplay is rock-solid. In addition,
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If you’re like me, you can’t get enough of (digital) pinball. You might have a bunch of tables on Zen Pinball, you might play pinball on your DS/DraStic emulator, or you might just remember the good old days of Windows XP Pinball. You might also just love real pinball too, of course. Whatever the case,
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Like a large percentage of gamers, I’ve enjoyed my share of Assassin’s Creed games. I know a lot of people didn’t like the shift to more generic open world gameplay, but I thought that the worldbuilding in Assassin’s Creed Origins was absolutely fantastic. It’s nothing new to the series, either, as Assassin’s Creed Unity featured
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Steam Family Sharing is pretty cool. You can basically give access to your entire Steam library to someone else, who can then install and play those games as if they were their own. For example, I have family sharing set up on my Steam account with my wife, so she can easily install any game
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With all the free-to-play games out there, it’s never been a better time to be a gamer that’s strapped for cash. There’s another option for broke gamers, though: game demos. Demos are a great way to experience games for free, and though they seem to be much more rare than they were back in the
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In a recent Game Informer retrospective on 25 years of PlayStation, SIE CEO Jim Ryan has declared that the Vita is officially dead, along with PlayStation’s handheld business. This is not particularly surprising, as Sony mostly abandoned the Vita long ago, but it still hurts to see it said so explicitly. It’s time to finally
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