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God judged me for killing someone in Meaningless Random Numbers but I owe the devil some money so what else could I do?
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God judged me for killing someone in Meaningless Random Numbers but I owe the devil some money so what else could I do?

In front of me is a single die. It costs me a bit of money to roll it, but I get a four, so I get four dollars, so I'm making a profit all the same. It costs me a bit more to roll this time. I do it anyway, and I get a bit more money, and more importantly experience points. After a while, I'm able to add in another die. You know what that means: more money. And I need the money, because I owe the devil a good few hundo. This is Meaningless Random Numbers, an incremental horror game where god i

"Hell or high water": the System Shock remake's co-director on the sneaky step taken to get the game made
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"Hell or high water": the System Shock remake's co-director on the sneaky step taken to get the game made

That there System Shock remake sure seems to have had one of the weirdest developments on any game around. There's the fact it took so long (almost eight whole years) having been delayed numerous times, but also the fact that at one point the FBI was called in on developer Nightdive. And now, it turns out that a group of devs within the studio banded together to form a sort of secret group to actually get it made. Read more

Latest official SteamOS update paves the way for Steam Machine with a bunch of new display features and faster patches
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Latest official SteamOS update paves the way for Steam Machine with a bunch of new display features and faster patches

Following the customary beta tests, Valve have released a new SteamOS update that adds "initial" support for the forthcoming Steam Machine, that unconscionable hybrid of desktop computer and videogame console, feared by man and god alike. It's one, small step along the road to the new hardware's (delayed) release this summer, at which point we will probably discover that it costs eleventy thousand pounds per unit. Read more

The interstellar dice-driven RPG Citizen Sleeper is free for the next week, so now you've got no excuse to not play it
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The interstellar dice-driven RPG Citizen Sleeper is free for the next week, so now you've got no excuse to not play it

Hurrah! Today is a very fine Thursday, as one of the most tightly written sci-fi RPGs around is available to pick up for free for around a week. That'll be Citizen Sleeper, by the way, a dice-driven RPG that I'm sure all of you must already know and love, but for the selection of you that don't technically exist, I'm sure you'll be happy to be able to pick it up for the cost of a couple of clicks. Read more

Raid tier list - best champions ranked
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Raid tier list - best champions ranked

Bash your way to the top of the leagues with our expert Raid tier list featuring all the best champions ranked for the current meta.

After Epic outline a genAI focused Unreal Engine 6, Vampire Survivors studio Poncle say they're "reviewing" their Fortnite collab
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After Epic outline a genAI focused Unreal Engine 6, Vampire Survivors studio Poncle say they're "reviewing" their Fortnite collab

If you heard the sound of a wet fart reverberating throughout the world yesterday, it'll likely be thanks to the most recent State of Unreal, where Epic offered some more concrete details regarding its plans for Unreal Engine 6. Namely, that it wants to infuse it with generative AI, and there's also some bollocks about using your Fortnite skins in other games and vice versa. But speaking of Fortnite, the same showcase announced a Vampire Survivors collab was on the cards, only for developer po

Reach the roof before your toe fungus reaches your brain in Moldrise, my favourite horror demo in ages
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Reach the roof before your toe fungus reaches your brain in Moldrise, my favourite horror demo in ages

As I write these words, Julian has just published a feature about Signet City, the new "fungalpunk" RPG from Citizen Sleeper and In Other Waters developer Gareth Damian Martin, in which you are a soulful parasite moving between the minds and bodies of an entire urban population. Doubtless, it is a splendid account of what is very likely a masterpiece of post-anthropocentric poetics, assuming I'm clocking Gareth's current theoretical preoccupations correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have time to

Melgeek Real81 review
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Melgeek Real81 review

A competitive keyboard that stumbles in more casual settings.

Signet City is an RPG where you play a brain fungus feeding off the emotions of your host, like a mushroom-themed Monsters, Inc
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Signet City is an RPG where you play a brain fungus feeding off the emotions of your host, like a mushroom-themed Monsters, Inc

The broil of ideas that make up Signet City have been growing in Gareth Damian Martin's head for years and they're about fit to burst. The creator of In Other Waters and Citizen Sleeper describes their new game as a first-person fungalpunk RPG, a game that draws inspiration from the history and culture of the northern England, the whalepunk tech of Dishonored's world, and lifts systems from cyberpunk tabletop game The Veil. But it's as much a manifestation of projects they're reacting against,