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Like I wrote in my intro to the companion piece about free games, I have quite a bit of experience going through the great and not-so-great games on Google Play. And yes, that means I have paid for more than a few games that did not hold my attention for very long. Anyways as a …
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Here at My Dpad, I’ve been writing about video games, and particularly mobile games, for over 5 years. In that time I’ve played a lot of mobile games for articles I’ve written here, and I’ve played a lot more games that I haven’t written anything about. In other words, I’ve spent a lot (and I …
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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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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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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 …
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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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 …