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You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming
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You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming

Valve have made changes to Steam’s community awards system to discourage people from posting daft and angry posts in order to farm Steam points. You will, in fact, no longer be able to receive Steam points from other users when they give you awards. Adding insult to injury, there's a new set of award designs that are explicitly designed to spread goodwill. Filth! Read more

Arknights Endfield pity system explained
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Arknights Endfield pity system explained

The Arknights Endfield pity system is unconventional by modern gacha game standards, but we're here to explain exactly how it all works.

Mochi-O's hamster warfare is a sweet, swift sugar rush
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Mochi-O's hamster warfare is a sweet, swift sugar rush

As seen in The Maw, fluffy defence shooter Mochi-O is out today, and – judging from the Steam demo I’ve played – is an at least passingly entertaining MIRV explosion of gleeful nonsense. Landing somewhere between tower defence, Vampire Survivors, and Tamagotchi, it has you holding up a genetically engineered hamster-like creature up to a window and blasting waves of attackers with the mounted weapons systems hidden in his fur. Then, setting him down and giving him a good long