Tag: gaming
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The Day I Became a Bird: Art Over Action
The Day I Became a Bird leans entirely into low stakes and high aesthetics. You are Frank. You have a crush on Sylvia, a girl completely obsessed with birds. Naturally, you decide to build a bird suit to win her affection. It is a wonderfully pure premise that we enjoyed greatly. But when you look…
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How the Two-Person Team Forged a West Souls-Like Masterpiece
Bleeding for Bullets The indie scene is currently drowning in games trying to bottle the FromSoftware lightning, but very few actually manage to find a voice of their own. Tombwater is a rare exception. Built by a tiny two-person team, the game is a gritty collision of sun-baked “Weird West” aesthetics and the kind of…
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Aether & Iron is a Gorgeous Traffic Jam
Imagine the 1930s never ended, but gravity did. You’re Gia Randazzo, a smuggler in a New York that’s been shattered into floating islands. These islands are actually held up by a glowy, unstable junk called Aether (hence the half part of the title). Now imagine BioShock Infinite meets The French Connection, but with turn-based car…
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Fishbowl Gets Real About Working From Home
You know how most games make you a superhero? Fishbowl just asks you to survive a Tuesday. You’re 21. You live alone. Your grandma just passed away, and your boss still wants you to finish editing videos. It’s rough. Fishbowl is basically about dealing with grief while trying to pay rent. You hang out in…
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The Multi-Class Weapon Pack: Tools for Every Hunt
The latest DLC for theHunter: Call of the Wild is called the Multi-Class Weapon Pack. It adds four new firearms to the game. No need for a single hunting style. The equipment allows you to shoot small birds, biggest game and anything in between. So if you’re willing to go on some digital hunting this…
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Dosa Divas is a Spicy Feast That You Can’t Resist
Outerloop Games is back. With Dosa Divas they’re still wearing their cultural hearts right on their sleeves. Two sisters, an ancient mech, and a crusade against a monolithic fast-food conglomerate. Dosa Divas is anti-capitalist, aggressively colorful and, at the same time, deeply personal. It’s also hugely ambitious, to a point that it tries too many…
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Sanity and Screaming at Your Friends: First Look at LightSup!
We recently checked out an exclusive, media-only early build of LightSup! In this cartoony title, you and up to three friends get tossed into a fantasy world that’s trapped in a permanent eclipse. What’s a permanent eclipse without a legion of monsters? Glad you asked, because that’s exactly what you’ll be doing – fighting waves…
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Blood Reaver is a Blast from the Past with Huge Potential
It’s really hard not to get sick of Early Access roadmaps masquerading as playable games. Nowdays, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a dozen such games. When Blood Reaver dropped into our lap promising a gritty, dark-fantasy co-op shooter, we couldn’t help but roll out eyes, thinking: here comes another one. But then we…
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Bringing Classic Warhammer Games Back from the Dead
There is a unique kind of heartbreak familiar to veteran PC gamer. You dust off a beloved CD-ROM from the late 90s. You slot it into a modern rig. And, finally, before you even get to try your favorite snack, you are met with a wall of compatibility errors. For decades, preserving digital history has…
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Ereban: Shadow Legacy: One Hell of a Prototype
A while back, we saw the trailer for Ereban: Shadow Legacy. A cyborg ninja girl melts into the floor. Our first thought was of an edgy Splatoon of sorts. Then, we forgot it even existed. While the PC version slipped under our radar, the recent PS5 release caught our eye. Based on the trailer and…
