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9 votes
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Glory to Papers Please: A Critical Analysis
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood | Launch trailer
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Grand Theft Auto 5 Online - The Diamond Casino & Resort is now open
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Internal Nintendo memo instructs customer service to fix "Joy-Con drift" for free, even outside warranty period
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Defiant Development (the studio behind the "Hand of Fate" games) announces that they are ceasing development
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Starcraft 2 caster and ex-pro, Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson, has passed away at age 33
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No Man's Sky's Sean Murray says devs should be quiet after a rough launch
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2019 Board Game of the Year Goes to "Just One"
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Moonlighter - Between Dimensions DLC | Release trailer
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The computer gaming statistics technology innovators should know
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Overwatch - Sigma - Origin story (new hero, coming soon)
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Automachef | Launch trailer
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The Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con drift problem, explained
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The board game of the alpha nerds. Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy.
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/r/AskHistorians is doing a special on Age Of Empires, analyzing its elements from a historian's perspective
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The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid’s English translation
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Kind Words: A game of lo-fi beats, writing nice letters to strangers, and feeling less alone
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The Shandification of Fallout
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What mobile games do you play?
I don't play many games on my phone, mostly because I can't find any good ones that arent just lazy cash grabs. What do you play on your phone?
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Frank Pearce (one of Blizzard's three founders) announces his departure from the company
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How Japanese RPGs inspired a new generation of fantasy authors
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After a year of discoverability and communication missteps by Valve, indie devs are cautious about Steam Labs and their future visibility on Steam
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Mario Maker 2 level sharing
Share codes for your own levels and the best levels you've played so far! I'm excited to see what we've put together, and I need some people to follow anyway :)
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'The Discord is the church:' A place for gamers to worship
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Dungeon generation in Diablo 1
9 votes -
Looking for game thread
Hey everyone ! Post in here if you wanna squad up with people on here. I'll start : Anyone wanna run some apex or titanfall 2 on Xbone comment in here. I play most evenings. Feel free to comment...
Hey everyone !
Post in here if you wanna squad up with people on here.
I'll start : Anyone wanna run some apex or titanfall 2 on Xbone comment in here. I play most evenings. Feel free to comment in here looking for people to play a different game with.6 votes -
New standard Switch model coming in August/September will improve battery life forty to eighty percent
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Overwatch - Introducing the Role Queue system
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Can we make talking as much fun as shooting?
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Full list of games coming to Ubisoft's Uplay+ subscription service revealed
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Minecraft Earth: Closed beta announcement + first gameplay shown
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198X and our deeply personal relationships with games
4 votes -
6 ways AI is making an impact on video games
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Tetris Effect | PC announce trailer (Epic) - July 23
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Summer Catchers | Release trailer
3 votes -
Red Candle Games will not re-release Devotion "in the near term"
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Turok Dinosaur Hunter - How an N64 classic evolved the console FPS
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Crowdfunding and Video Games: 2019 Mid-Year Update
3 votes -
The bounty hunters of Fallout 76 will kill anyone you want, for a price
13 votes -
Pac-Man ghost AI explained
13 votes -
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? An online game about fake news.
13 votes -
Under fire from game devs, G2A proposes new 'Key Blocker' tool
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Minecraft AI escaping 2b2t's spawn area
7 votes -
Introducing Steam Labs - a place for testing and giving feedback on experimental Steam features
11 votes -
Media literacy and game news
5 votes -
3D Realms' "Ion Maiden" has been renamed to "Ion Fury" due to a lawsuit - new trailer, and will release from Early Access on August 15
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Nintendo Switch Lite announced - $199 on September 20th
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Interesting fast-paced space-themed racing games on Switch
After our discussion about Tempest-like games, I looked at what else could at least scratch a similar fast-paced space-theme racing, with optional shooting itch on Switch. To kick off the...
After our discussion about Tempest-like games, I looked at what else could at least scratch a similar fast-paced space-theme racing, with optional shooting itch on Switch.
To kick off the discussion, these are the games I already tried that I kinda like. I‘ll update this list, once people suggest other entries. I realise it’s a bit of a mish-mash, but it’s more about the feel than a specific genre.
Fast RMX is a very fast-paced pod-racer, with a similar feel to Wipeout, if you take away the weapons, and add a boost mechanic where you need to switch your booster’s code with the speed lane. I prefer playing it with motion/gyro controls, which admittedly makes it harder to play, but with that actually feels a lot more like you’re travelling at massive speed where every unintentional jerk of the steering wheel can cause you to wipe out.
Velocity 2X is a very successful mix of a vertical shooter where time matters with added platforming levels in between. Boosting for speed and warping/teleporting to solve puzzles is a huge part of the game.
The Next Penelope is a top-down 2D (pod?) racing game with weapons, where the acceleration happens automatically, but is influenced by boost, boost markers on the track and bumping into stuff. I haven’t played it for a long time yet, but once you learn the controls it seems to be a very good game.
VSR is a pure zero-gravity, zero-friction 3D space racer. Which makes mastering the controls very hard for anyone who is not used to it. To be honest, I haven’t mastered them yet either, but haven’t given up, as I really liked RPGs and shooters with such a mechanic. It just gives a specific type of zennish “in the zone” feeling, once you get into it.
Fast RMX
price:20 €14 € until 2019-07-25
reviews: 81 % on MetaCritic
length: 3½ h main game (57 h completionist) on HowLongToBeartVelocity 2X
price:20 €8 € until 2019-07-18
reviews: 87 % on MetaCritic
length: 5 h main game (26 h completionist) on HowLongToBeatThe Next Penelope: Race to Odysseus
price:13 €2 € until 2019-07-11
reviews: 79 % on MetaCritic
length: 2½ h main game (5½ h completionist) on HowLongToBeatVSR: Void Space Racing
price: 5 €
reviews: 66 % on MetaCritic
length: (no HowLongToBeat entry yet)7 votes -
DeepMind's StarCraft II AI "AlphaStar" will play some games anonymously on the Europe competitive ladder against opt-in opponents
18 votes