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Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2
Save on games and support small dev teams at the same time, now through August 14th.
How much do you know about the universe of Warhammer 40,000? Put your faith in the Emperor to the test with our latest quiz
For over two decades now, Warhammer 40,000 facts and lore have been accumulating in my brain like calcium buildup in your ...
The follow-up to one of the decade's best detective games will have you selling cursed antiques to Victorian weirdos next month
As the name implies, Strange Antiquities swaps out the flora for relics and artifacts crafted by (probably) human hands. Yet ...
As the bots take over Verdansk, Warzone and Stalker are beginning to meld in my brain
By all accounts, this A-Life system was toned down by the time of Stalker's release, but even its echoes are evocative. It's ...
I finally played Duke Nukem Forever's unfinished 2001 build, and while it probably would have been better than Gearbox's fiasco, it still wouldn't hold up today
Like a lot of middle-aged PC gamers, I've often wondered what this version of Duke Nukem Forever might be like to play. But ...
'Let's just kill everyone on the station:' The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid 'awkward' RPG dialogue trees
System Shock dev Marc LeBlanc shared the story on a recent Nightdive podcast. In a recent episode of Nightdive's Deep Dive podcast, Looking Glass Studios programmer Marc LeBlanc shared his ...
The Tencent survival game being sued by Sony quietly purges most Horizon-like content from its Steam page, bumps release date to late 2027
One other point of note: Light of Motiram was set to come out in late 2025, but the Steam page now indicates it's coming in ...
Portal sicko beats the game with 'switched' wall textures so no surface is where it's meant to be, creating a whole new puzzling challenge in the process
Portal is not only one of the most mechanically inventive puzzle games ever made, but it's also one of the most elegantly ...
Steam for Chromebooks is getting axed in 2026 instead of exiting its 4-year beta
The notice states: "The Steam for Chromebook Beta program will conclude on January 1st, 2026. After this date, games installed as part of the Beta will no longer be available to play on your device.
Absurd Japan-themed delivery sim Promise Mascot Agency just added a whole bunch of grinding, but don't worry, it's the good, Tony Hawk kind of grinding
The Prepare to Grind update also adds time trial challenges and difficulty modes.
I don't want to hear a another peep about the 'AI future' until they make multi monitor support not suck
I'm happy to report, though, that my Win+Shift+P trick just started working again for some reason, even though I did not do or change anything. Ditto for mouse lock. I started replaying Pillars of ...
The iconic look of BioShock's Big Daddy has its roots in System Shock 2's low polygon counts: 'If you embraced your designing limitations on that stuff, you'd end up with a ...
BioShock 's Big Daddy is one of gaming's most iconic enemy designs. The drillbit-wielding, diving-helmet wearing protectors of Rapture are synonymous with Irrational's classic shooter, to the point ...