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Darkmoon Races is Hearthstone’s first mini-expansion

20 1 月, 2021 Ed Thorn 0

Blizzard are shaking up Hearthstone’s update schedule with a crafty new strategy: big expansions that now spawn small expansions. The Darkmoon Races is the first of what they’ve dubbed ‘Mini-Sets’, which shuffles in some new additions to last year’s Madness At The Darkmoon Faire expansion. It contains 35 new cards and arrives tomorrow.

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Game Maker developer YoYo Games bought by browser developer Opera

19 1 月, 2021 Graham Smith 0

Game Maker is an entry-level game development tool which has been used to create several indie megahits, including Undertale, Hyperlight Drifter, Heat Signature and Katana Zero. Since 2015, its developers YoYo Games have been owned by gambling software creator Playtech. There’s been no official announcement that this has changed, but a report on Reuters states […]

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Ratropolis is a tower defence deckbuilder about commanding rats

19 1 月, 2021 Graham Smith 0

Like Omori before it, Ratropolis is another game we missed because it snuck out over Christmas. This is much like the rats I used to live with in an old house share, who snuck around every trap we laid down for so long they became like friends. Horrible, noisy friends who’d steal our pasta… Much […]

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What’s the best trilogy of PC games?

19 1 月, 2021 Graham Smith 0

Hitman 3 is out later this week and if Brendy’s review is any indication, it’s great. He calls it “as capable and pleasing as its trilogy-siblings,” and names the trilogy as a whole, “one of the most fun-loving games of the previous decade.” That got me thinking. What is the best trilogy in PC gaming?

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HighFleet is a futuristic action-strategy game about giant airborne ships

19 1 月, 2021 Graham Smith 0

I love the interfaces in complex military simulations. Tiny bulbs, little switches hidden behind flaps, fuzzy polygons bleeping on a low-res display. I don’t actually want to pilot real military vehicles, however, so HighFleet appeals to me a great deal. It’s got the aesthetic of a military sim, but it’s bent towards a physicsy, action-strategy […]

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Started as a MOBA mod, Auto Chess is now spawning its own MOBA

19 1 月, 2021 Alice O'Connor 0

After starting out as a mod for Dota 2, Auto Chess led the brand new genre of auto-battlers to inspire devs including Valve and Riot, then spawned its own standalone game, and now it’s coming all the way back round to the start with an Auto Chess MOBA. So its Dota-inspired characters will now star […]