Valve has announced the Steam Deck portable, which will start at $400.
Valve will begin releasing a new portable gaming gadget dubbed Steam Deck in December 2021, according to reports. The gadget, according to Valve, is an AMD “powerhouse” capable of running “the newest AAA titles.” The hefty black rectangle has a 7-inch 1280×800 touchscreen, trackpads similar to the Steam Controller, and gyroscopic control. On the software […]
A cyberpunk action game inspired by GTA 2. Glitchpunk will be available in Early Access on August 11th.
This top-down action game is based on Grand Theft Auto 2, the strangest GTA. It’s a game about driving vehicles, brawling with gangs and cults, and wreaking havoc in the colorful urban sprawl of a dark, distant future. Daedalic, the game’s publisher, said today that the game would be available on Steam Early Access on […]
Company of Heroes 3 will be released next year, but you can play a sample today.
After several years in development, Company of Heroes 3 was revealed today, and you can join up to play what developer Relic Entertainment refers to as a pre-Alpha sample copy of the game here. This is the third installment of one of the most prestigious RTS series of all time. Company of Heroes launched in […]
Highfleet, a unique action-strategy game, will be released on Steam this month.
HighFleet, Konstantin Koshutin’s stunning action strategy, will launch on Steam later this month. I’ve had my eye on HighFleet’s flaming skies for quite some time since it’s a beautifully haptic battle sim. You lead a vast, airborne imperial war machine, recruiting and refueling troops across the land while repelling attacks from nimble rebel forces. Battles […]
A mafia modder spends 15 years populating the Titanic with mobsters.
Mafia: Definitive Edition put forth a lot of effort to bring the 2002 crime narrative up to date. What it didn’t do, and arguably should have done, was provide a fully realized model of the H.M.S. Titanic for Tommy Angelo to investigate. Eurogamer reported earlier today that modder Robin Bongaarts had been working on the […]
The source code for the infamous arcade parody Defender has been made available on Github.
Defender is an arcade classic and one of the most successful titles from what is now known as the arcade golden age. Eugene Jarvis co-designed the first videogame, which was released in 1980, and he was one of four coders who worked on it for the pinball firm Williams (following the success of Space Invaders, […]
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl might be the Smash Bros. killer?
Super Smash Bros. is one of those franchises that has been copied but never surpassed. It’s not just that it’s a lot of fun; Nintendo has a really deep reservoir of characters and games to draw from: even if you’ve never played a Metroid game, F-Zero, or Starfox, you’ll recognize these warriors. But, as Smash […]
Red Dead Online’s latest addition will make you wish it was singleplayer DLC once again.
“Explore civilised criminality in Frontier America!” Yes, indeed! “Robberies, shakedowns, and more unlawful behaviour! “YES!” says Red Dead Online’s Blood Money!” It’s a dagnabbit. OK, I’ll admit it, I’m being a little harsh. Blood Money is a rather significant (and free) update to Red Dead Online that has just gone live, and it adds a […]
World War 3, the ‘hardcore Battlefield,’ returns from the grave.
World War 3, a multiplayer modern military shooter being developed by The Farm 51, was described as “a more intense Battlefield” in late 2018. It wasn’t a perfect experience, but it was just a few weeks into Early Access at the time, and our in-house shooter specialist Morgan thought it provided a promising pre-release experience. […]
In the most recent wave of Hearthstone nerfs, Priest and Druid receive the short end of the stick.
The subject of what to do with the game’s volatile Priest class came up in a recent interview with the Hearthstone dev team. “We want to make sure that players playing against [Priest] aren’t pulling their hair out,” senior game designer Liv Breeden explained, and thus a fresh Hearthstone patch is due to come tomorrow, […]
