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5 votes
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The evolution of game genres on early Nintendo consoles: NES, Game Boy, and SNES
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Ending my relationship with Cards Against Humanity and Max Temkin
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Razer’s Kishi turns your phone into a Nintendo Switch lookalike that can play Google Stadia
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Building a viable future in Destiny 2
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Beyond a Steel Sky | Story trailer
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Command & Conquer Remastered Collection | Launch trailer
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Let's give some love to indies! What's your favourite indie game?
Personally, my favourite indie recently has been Katana Zero, the action in that game is so fluid and fun.
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Haven't gamed on a PC for ten years. Built a gaming rig. What games do I install?
I've been out of PC gaming for at least 10 years. Although I have a PS4 and I loved playing God of War 4 and Witcher 3. Through what might only be described as a mishap, I've ended up building a...
I've been out of PC gaming for at least 10 years. Although I have a PS4 and I loved playing God of War 4 and Witcher 3.
Through what might only be described as a mishap, I've ended up building a computer with a kickass GPU. 3700X, RX 5700XT, 2TB Gigabyte Aorus NVMe. The works.
Build's half done, I plan on dual booting hackintosh & windows 10 -- the latter I haven't used in many years as well, I'm a UNIX guy.
What should I even install on this thing? I've been very disconnected from the gaming industry and I've no idea what games are new or good or cool to show off what my hardware can do
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Godot Editor running in a web browser
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How Sega hopes to use Japanese arcades as streaming data centers
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Electronic Arts games listed on Steam
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Tildes' "Shop-from-Home" Game Giveaway Event
Important: This will be a noisy thread. If you do not wish to see it in your feed, please use the "Ignore" feature to hide it! What Is This? Times are tough for a lot of us out there. I'm hoping...
Important: This will be a noisy thread. If you do not wish to see it in your feed, please use the "Ignore" feature to hide it!
What Is This?
Times are tough for a lot of us out there. I'm hoping we can make things just a little bit easier by spreading some free entertainment to those that need/want it.
This is a giveaway thread for games. Most games will be on the Steam platform for PC, though any platform is eligible.
How Does It Work?
-Gifters
Each person that wants to give away games can open up their own "shop" in a top-level comment, showcasing the games they have available to give away.
Each "shopkeep" can set their own rules for giveaways (e.g. first come, first serve; limit 2 per customer; answer a riddle to get a game; tell me about your favorite band; etc.). Feel free to have some fun with this! You can use my "shop" as an example for how to make yours, though your offering certainly doesn't have to be that involved. I got a little bit too excited and kinda went all out for this. :)
-Receivers
Shoppers, or people wanting to take advantage of the giveaways, can wander the bazaar, checking out with the vendors who have items that interest them. You do NOT have to giveaway anything in order to accept games! These are giveaways, given freely, not trades! That said, a shopkeep might ask you for a story or some wisdom in exchange. Please indulge them!
Rules
Giveaway rules are set by individual gifters, but there are handful of guidelines everyone should follow:
- No grey market keys! Only giveaway games from reputable sources. If you're not sure what this means, please ask.
- Requests for games should be done in the thread, but if the gift is a key, those should be delivered by PMs only. Please don't post keys publicly, even obfuscated ones.
Isn't there a Tildes Steam group for giveaways?
There is, but not for much longer. The group is cumbersome to keep invite-only, which limits its membership, and we now have the ignore thread feature here on Tildes which we did not have when I first made the group (and I didn't want people bothered by noisy topics like giveaways). I will be closing the Steam group soon and moving giveaways back on-site to threads like this one. I feel that's better for the community, and makes participation far easier.
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning listed in Xbox Store
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Sega Game Gear Micro announced
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Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife
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Mario 64's unofficial PC port will look glorious once modders get done with it
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Farming and selling gold in RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive their country's economic crisis
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Total War Saga: TROY will be released on the Epic Games Store on 13 August 2020 - and will be free to keep if claimed within the first 24 hours of release
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To help support modding, alongside the launch of the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, EA will be releasing the TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll and their source code under the GPL3 license
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Sony delays PlayStation 5 showcase
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The definitive history of Commander, Magic: The Gathering's most popular format
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Nitrome is bringing its Flash games to HTML5
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Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection - Official Trailer
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Last hours for the tapeworm Kickstarter. Edmund McMillens new boardgame
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What are your favorite and least favorite gaming tropes?
Exploding barrels, invisible walls, cutscene deaths -- gaming has a whole host of tropes that range from loveable to hateable. Which are the ones you most like, and which are the ones you most...
Exploding barrels, invisible walls, cutscene deaths -- gaming has a whole host of tropes that range from loveable to hateable. Which are the ones you most like, and which are the ones you most dislike? Give examples of games that demonstrate these, and talk about how and why you feel the way that you do about them.
For those that you like, what games have really elevated their use? For those that you dislike, which games are the most egregious offenders? Also, have any games played with the tropes and subverted them in interesting or meaningful ways?
For the purposes of the question, these don't have to be tropes that only exist in gaming -- it's fine if there's crossover with other media.
Also, please mark any spoilers!
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World of Warcraft: The Corrupted Blood incident
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What casual games are like for someone who doesn't play video games
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Factorio - The 1.0 Plan - Release date is now August 14 (Five weeks earlier than originally announced)
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GOG's summer sale has started and runs through June 15
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Steam Spring Cleaning event - Challenges to help dust off and dig into your Steam Library collection of games, runs until May 28
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Steam Cloud Play (Beta) appears in partner documentation
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From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster
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Noita: A magnificent misfortune simulator
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PlayStation State of Play - The Last of Us Part II - A look at the gameplay, threats, and world
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Wholesome Direct - A showcase of over fifty "cute and cozy" indie games
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Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition - Tech review: Switch vs. Wii vs. 3DS
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Good, fun, easy and cheap co-op games for a gamecircle
We're trying to start a Gamecircle (kind of like a Bookcircle) with friends and accuintances and I'm looking for some good Games to start. It is a daunting task to be honest, as there will be some...
We're trying to start a Gamecircle (kind of like a Bookcircle) with friends and accuintances and I'm looking for some good Games to start. It is a daunting task to be honest, as there will be some first time gamers taking part. And for me as a singleplayer for year (mostly factorio and some round and grand strategy games) I dont even know where to start looking.
I'm looking for something like mario kart, which is easy to understand and fun for everybody to play, for the first months. Not cost more than 10$, be aviable through steam or gog or itch.io, preferably cross-platform (steam play works fine too).On another note, has someboy tried something like this? how did/does it work out? What would be your Advice?
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘My emotions are usually outside my body and that's not what you usually connect to a chess player’
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Inside Second Life's most expensive brothel
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Wildfire | Launch trailer
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Minecraft Dungeons | Launch trailer
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Latest video of gameplay from Champions of Regnum anniversary event -- new Squid Island allowing players of all levels to enter an immediate pvp warzone, all players levelled to the same level
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The untold history of Arkane, developers of Dishonored, Prey, Ravenholm, and more
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Skyrim grandma is taking a break because of internet assholes
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Warhammer 40,000 The New Edition | Cinematic trailer
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Digital Foundry review of Saints Row The Third Remastered
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Looking for hardware recommendations for Steam gaming on my TV
Latest update here. Thanks to everyone who helped me out! I have an Nvidia Shield hooked up to my TV, and it's great for Android games and emulation. I'm looking for similar hardware that will...
Latest update here. Thanks to everyone who helped me out!
I have an Nvidia Shield hooked up to my TV, and it's great for Android games and emulation. I'm looking for similar hardware that will allow me to play my Steam library on the TV.1 It doesn't have to be as small as the Shield TV, but I'm not interested in having a giant tower hooked up in my living room. Basically, I want what those old Steam Machines promised before fizzling out.
What I'm looking for:
- Pre-configured
- Able to support wireless controllers through Bluetooth
- Able to play smaller, less demanding games flawlessly
- Would be nice if it could play more demanding titles, but this is not a must
- Has decent cooling (I'm worried that boxes not designed for gaming will get way too hot)
- Price point: undetermined so far -- I'm willing to pay what I need to, but I want to see what's out there before committing to anything
- Would like to be able to set it up to basically be a seamless "console" if possible, where I can boot right into Steam (or easily get there with a controller) and not have to use a keyboard and mouse (I do have a Steam controller but I would rather use an 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ as my primary input method)
Searching around, here's what I've found so far:
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The System 76 Meerkat is a mini PC that looks great (and I'm partial to the company), but I don't know how it would perform with gaming. Also, I haven't decided if I want the (small) amounts of friction that come with gaming on Linux on my TV or not.
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Intel NUCs seems to be popular, and they have some gaming-focused models at higher price points.
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The MSI Trident 3 is explicitly gaming-focused and has a dedicated cooling system. Might be overkill for what I need though?
Here are my main questions:
- What other hardware options are out there that I don't know about?
- What hardware profile and price point should I be targeting for my needs? How little is too little, and how much is too much?
- Are there any pitfalls to this kind of setup that I'm not aware of?
I'm open to any and all suggestions, as this kind of stuff is all a bit over my head so it's hard for me to even know what I'm looking for. I haven't even decided that this is definitely something I'm going to do yet, since there's such a wide range in price and performance. Instead what I'm trying to do is figure out what my needs are and then which models (if any) would fit them best.
1: I do have a Steam Link and have tried the app, but the quality for me has been spotty enough that I would rather have native hardware playing them than trying to stream it from my laptop.
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