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If you’re into video games, you know Doom. Whether it defined your childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, or whether you just like seeing people trying to get it to run on increasingly ridiculous devices, the game that spawned the FPS genre (well, along with Wolfenstein 3D) is unarguably one of the most influential of all time. […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Happy thanksgiving everyone! Don’t forget to be grateful today, and don’t forget the genocidal origin of this day. Anyways, since it’s Thanksgiving today, that means tomorrow’s Black Friday. As someone who has previously worked at a big box store overnight into Black Friday, I must urge you to skip out on any doorbuster deals. Instead,
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If you’re ever looking for information on video games sales, it can be difficult to find accurate information. Some sources are famously dubious, while others are unclear about whether they’re presenting global numbers or regional numbers. Well, if you’re interested in video games sales numbers for the United States specifically, a great source is Mat
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Steam is great for PC gamers. From their Linux efforts in Proton to family sharing, Valve gives PC gamers a bunch of reasons to buy games on Steam instead of another option like GOG. However, this newest one might just be the best one yet. I’m talking about Steam Remote Play Together. It’s Steam Remote
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