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Amnesia: Rebirth’s launch was a bit cursed oOooOoo

20 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

In my expert opinion, the best thing a horror game about amnesia and half-glimpsed horrors can do upon launching is disappear. Was it ever there? Am I crazy in the coconut? So it’s thematically splendid (if practically inconvenient) that today’s Amnesia: Rebirth launch went spooky on Steam. At first some owners found it didn’t have […]

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Doom Eternal’s first story expansion is out now

20 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

It’s not Halloween until you’re knee-deep in the dead, so here comes Doom Eternal with the start of its two-part story expansion. The Ancient Gods sends the angry fella back into the Maykr’s dimension to resume ripping and tearing, this time with some new enemies in the mix too. Curiously, the expansion is also a […]

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The Atari Hotel plans are ludicrous

20 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

The Atari you knew and loved is long-dead, and perhaps one day you might sleep inside its corpse. The company currently wearing the skin of Atari have licensed the name to people wishing to build Atari Hotels, who recently revealed their big dreams for sleep-in mausoleums in Las Vegas and Phoenix. They are: big. They […]

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Spelunky 2’s first few levels are now friendlier

19 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Do you feel Spelunky 2 seeds have been a bit more generous these past few days? A little less keen to murder you the second you cross the cave’s welcome mat? That’s not luck with the RNG, that’s the blessing of designer Derek Yu. After talking last week about plans to tweak the first few […]

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Watch the building of the Obra Dinn in this time-lapse video

19 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Watching Return Of The Obra Dinn‘s creator build the game’s levels is like watching the work of a serial killer who’s obsessed with the detective chasing them, artfully laying out corpses and tweaking gruesome scenes for maximum surprise and mystery. A torso here, a pair of shoes there, and oh the detective will kick themself […]

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What are we all playing this weekend?

17 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

I will not give in and turn my heating on, not until November. You cannot make me. Okay, maybe on Halloween, because it’d be nice to be all roasty-toasty drinking hot chocolate and watching horror films. Alright, maybe the 30th, so I can warm my flat up a bit first. Or the 29th to get […]

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StarCraft II winding down new content

16 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Ten years after the StarCraft II saga started and five after its final episode, Blizzard have announced they’re winding down development. They still plan to tweak balance, but won’t be making new paid content. Not putting a pillow over its spaceface, but shuffling it off to a spacehome. Their announcement also muttered about thinking about […]

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Valve explain why Steam’s front page shows the games it shows

16 10 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Why does Steam’s front page show you the games it shows? Some of it’s algorithms, obvs, but why those games for you? And what about the rest? If you’ve ever wondered, do watch this twenty-minute video where two fellas from Valve’s Steam team explain it all. It is interesting to see which parts are curated […]