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Still hoping to snag a Steam Controller after it sold out? You'll have to literally join a queue to get one
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Still hoping to snag a Steam Controller after it sold out? You'll have to literally join a queue to get one

Been a bit of a week for the Steam Controller, 'ey? It launched earlier this week sans console, only for Valve and everyone else to find that it pretty much immediately sold out. Tech scarcity? Who could have seen that one coming, even for something as simple as a controller! That then resulted in some naughty people flogging them on eBay for at least double the price, but worry not intrepid purchaser, for Valve have shared details on how they plan to dole out the controller going forward. Re

The World of Darkness grows bigger with a first look at Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish and a Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn reveal
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The World of Darkness grows bigger with a first look at Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish and a Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn reveal

Lucky you! You've got a look at two World of Darkness games in one today (that's the Vampire: The Masquerade universe, for those asking). First is one we already knew about, Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish (is it also a World of Darkness requirement for the secondary subtitle to always be followed by a hyphen?), which received less of a gameplay deep dive and more of a light splash. The second is the reveal of Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn (see what I mean?), a metroidvania where, as t

With Mixtape out today, the tiny number of coming of age games gets just that little bit bigger
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With Mixtape out today, the tiny number of coming of age games gets just that little bit bigger

A couple of years ago, The Artful Escape devs Beethoven & Dinosaur announced their next game, Mixtape. It caught my eye at the time in no small part to having an art style that actually looks like Something as opposed to the vast sea of realism simulators out there. In particular, I was fond of its choppy, post-Into-the-Spiderverse animation, and the licensed music soundtrack, despite being very dad-core (maybe even grandad-core for some of you, at this point), did it some favours for me too.

Embark are testing kernel-level anti-cheat in Arc Raiders to help put a stop to its ongoing cheating problem
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Embark are testing kernel-level anti-cheat in Arc Raiders to help put a stop to its ongoing cheating problem

If a popular multiplayer game exists, it has a cheating problem. This is almost always a guarantee, it's just about the ways in which a studio chooses to handle this problem. So far, Embark Studios don't seem to have done a perfect job in doing so with Arc Raiders, but they've now at least outlined their plans for how they're going to approach cheating. Read more

Yacht Club Games "make-or-break" moment Mina the Hollower gets a May release date
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Yacht Club Games "make-or-break" moment Mina the Hollower gets a May release date

It's been four years since Yacht Club Games last put out a game, and 12 years since Shovel Knight first launched. In those years, their entire output has been completely Shovel Knight focused, in the form of either expansions or spin-offs. Back in 2022, they announced something new: Mina the Hollower. And after an indefinite delay, the Zelda-ish action adventure game has a release date. Read more