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Minecraft's getting cuter baby animals whose single pixel eyes you can stare into as you nudge them into lava
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Minecraft's getting cuter baby animals whose single pixel eyes you can stare into as you nudge them into lava

Minecraft's getting marginally cuter with its next update, as it continues to pretend it isn't designed for the express purpose of teaching innocent children that in order to survive, you've sometimes got to beat some pigs and trees to death with your bare hands. Baby farm animal mobs, long just mini-mes of their adult versions with slightly different head/body size ratios are getting their own unique appearances. Read more

Architect Of Ruin is a beautiful dark fantasy temple builder from former Valve devs and Hooded Horse
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Architect Of Ruin is a beautiful dark fantasy temple builder from former Valve devs and Hooded Horse

Was your new year resolution to rebuild an evil temple on behalf of a baleful god? I bring wonderful news, then. The former Epic and Valve developers of Dead Money LLC have signed a wicked pact with the strategy game illuminati of Hooded Horse to release Architect of Ruin – a “completely hand drawn” fantasy colony simulation game that looks like Dwarf Fortress twisted by 45 degrees and pumped full of Dungeon Keeper DNA. I am already in love with the trees, their rich foliage

Dogpile review
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Dogpile review

A scruffy but lovable little stray.

AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL review
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AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL review

A big chair for big gamers, but lacking a few adjustability options in an attempt to cut costs.

A new StarCraft shooter's reportedly set to be revealed this year, possibly as a BlizzCon headliner
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A new StarCraft shooter's reportedly set to be revealed this year, possibly as a BlizzCon headliner

Right, so, Starcraft. A new shooter in the series is reportedly set to be revealed this year, possibly as the big headline act of Blizzcon in September. The existence of such a secret shootery thing in the works at Blizzard was first reported by Jason Schreier last year, being one of the revelations to come out of his book on the publisher, titled Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment. Read more

My Winter Car is out now - a frosty early access sequel to the hateful motoring sim that has you "spiraling even deeper"
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My Winter Car is out now - a frosty early access sequel to the hateful motoring sim that has you "spiraling even deeper"

Last January, our reviewer Brendan "Shitty Shitty Wham Bam" Caldwell called My Summer Car "a sordid sim of piss and pistons that won't hold your disgusting little hand", proceeding to warn that it "will either scare you off with its complexity or induce Stockholm syndrome with its mesmerisingly neglectful approach". Out now in early access, My Winter Car is all of that plus the "terrible coldness and darkness of Finnish winter", in the words of developers Amistech Games. Read more

PUBG: Blindspot, the top-down one of Plunkbat's siblings, deploys into early access next month
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PUBG: Blindspot, the top-down one of Plunkbat's siblings, deploys into early access next month

PUBG: Blindspot, the PUBG spin-off previously dubbed Project Arc, is set to take the early access plunge on February 5th, 2026. In case you've understadably started wondering if this is the extraction shooter which prompted my last bit of newsing about a PUBG spin-off, it isn't. That's PUBG: Black Budget, PUBG: Blindspot's all about fights in which you're staring at the tops of folks' heads. Read more