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Steam Machine Verified games are incoming. Valve has confirmed it will take the time to check thousands of titles on its platform so that we can know at a glance whether a game will work on the new black box of gaming wonders. However, while the similar Steam Deck Verified program has quite strict requirements, Valve has said that Steam Machine verification is going to have “fewer constraints” such that “if your title is Verified on Steam Deck, it will be Verified on Steam Machine.” This confirmation effectively signals what many might have expected, which is that the Steam Machine…
Lin Lie is the current Iron Fist, though he’s not carrying the mantle alone as he’s got his predecessor Danny Rand (now known as Ghost Fist) and his protege Pei at his side. Now all three will have to join forces with White Tiger, White Fox, and Elektra of Daredevil fame to defend the mystical city of K’un-Lun, where the power of the Iron Fist originates.They’ll all unite in Deadly Hands of K’un-Lun, a new five-issue limited series written by Yifan Liang, one of the writers of the hit video game Marvel Rivals, in which Lin Lie appears as Iron…
It’s kind of baffling how Mirror’s Edge came out almost two full decades ago, and there’s hardly a whisper of a game that’s managed to match its art direction. The thing is just too clean, too specific, there’s a purpose to every detail. It feels like the future distilled into digital form, though no one really followed suit in the years since, opting for drab, lifeless realism instead. Except, as it turns out, that’s almost what Mirror’s Edge looked like too. Over on Design Room, as part of an oral history of the game, some of the game’s…
World of Warcraft Midnight is, in many ways, revolutionary. It finally adds the much-requested player housing feature, bringing it in line with rival MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and Guild Wars 2. It also cracks down hard on WoW addons, which have largely been essential to playing the game. From Deadly Boss Mods to GTFO, I know I’ve relied on them perhaps a little too much over the years, but Blizzard wants to create a world where I won’t have to. Updating its own interface in an attempt to cut out the “competitive advantages” some of these mods grant, the…
Indie developer Petter Malmehed released his unconventional alternate reality puzzle game After Hours in 2018, and according to Malmehed himself, it did alright, even if it wasn’t a big commercial success. However, in recent months and years, he’s seen its user reviews on Steam gradually decline at the same time as its completion rate is steadily dropping, and he thinks he knows why.Email. And super young people. They don’t get it, apparently. For my elder Gen-Z and older readers, this may be confounding. What’s the problem with email? You hit compose, you type in a brief subject line, and then…
Anyone order a point-and-click adventure puzzle game for later this month featuring a cast of British actors that’ll make you go “oh, right, them!” when you Google them? Well, someone must have, because Earth Must Die, the next game from Lair of the Clockwork God developer Size Five Games, now has a release date. Come on, it’s getting cold! Or it’s still cold, because it’s not out yet? I’m losing myself in the metaphor here, point is, Size Five announced today alongside publisher No More Robots that Earth Must Die will be launching January 27th. That’s less than…
While I’m not exactly a gacha game person, I know far too much about Cygames. I blame ‘Pseychie,’ perhaps the most thorough gacha-focused YouTuber out there, whose videos soundtrack my noisy lunchtime ramen eating. Pseychie has mentioned many a developer on his channel, but Cygames is one of the ones that’s stuck in my mind. The creator of anime titans like Granblue Fantasy, Shadowverse, and, most recently, Unamusume: Pretty Derby (aka the horse game), the company has been pulled into the AI debate following a somewhat cryptic blog post promoting a new, seemingly AI-first studio. The blog post, machine translated from…
Many of the best Arc Raiders weapons, especially rare and epic guns, feel dramatically better once you upgrade them to level three or four, which can be a pricey endeavor even without factoring in ongoing repair costs. When rock-solid options like the common Stitcher and uncommon Anvil are significantly cheaper to upgrade and maintain, it can feel hard to economically justify splurging for the good stuff, even if those guns are really fun to use. Many players have called popular guns like the Renegade, Venator, Tempest, and Bobcat untenably expensive for weeks now, and it sounds like developer Embark Studios…
If you’ve ever wanted to spend somewhere in the region of $67/£50 to turn GTA 5 into a fishing simulator, today’s your lucky day. Rockstar-partnered GTA roleplaying server operators Cfx.re – the folks behind FiveM and RedM – have launched the Cfx Marketplace, a store where you can buy a bunch of GTA roleplaying mods, some of which are free and some of which seem pretty damn expensive.
There are few more famous faces in videogaming than Peter Molyneux, formerly of Lionhead Studios, the creator of Fable and Black and White, and now of 22cans. Known for his hand in several legendary series – and his penchant for overpromising – Molyneux has been a little quiet of late. He’s since apologized for his earlier behaviour, and claims he won’t make the same mistakes with Masters of Albion, 22cans’ new strategy game. But his reputation as an overpromiser did give us one great gift: a parody account known as Peter Molydeux. Managed by videogame artist Adam Capone and born…