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4 votes
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People don’t really need bigger worlds in games, they need better ones, says Dying Light 2 director
12 votes -
In The Outer Worlds, hard decisions feel like an illusion
5 votes -
Technical analysis of the trailer for Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 on the next-gen Xbox
3 votes -
Kickstarter Arena FPS Diabotical is now an Epic exclusive
10 votes -
Frappe Snowland: The history of Mario Kart 64's most broken track
17 votes -
AI Dungeon 2: a text adventure game that uses OpenAI's GPT-2 model to respond to any actions that you enter
21 votes -
The new Atari console, Atari VCS, will offer 80/20 revenue split for developers and run standard Linux games
12 votes -
The GOG GALAXY 2.0 Open Beta is now available
15 votes -
Inspired by Wikipedia and its predecessors, a new genre is emerging at the crossroads of interactive fiction and alternate reality games
8 votes -
The lie that helped build Nintendo
9 votes -
What are your personal picks for "Games of the Decade"?
The 2010s are coming to a close soon, and I'm curious to know what your gaming highlights are from the past decade. To be clear: these are your personal standouts so don't feel beholden to...
The 2010s are coming to a close soon, and I'm curious to know what your gaming highlights are from the past decade.
To be clear: these are your personal standouts so don't feel beholden to popularity, critical opinion, review scores, or anything else like that. If a game was great for you and you deem it worthy of mentioning, then by all means go for it. I'm not interested in a list of the "most important" games of the decade but individual lists from individual people.
Please let us know why you loved the games that you're choosing, and what makes them worth mentioning as your personal picks for "Games of the Decade." Furthermore, choose as many or as few as you like. I'm also not even going to limit this to games released in the 2010s, as I know that many games released before then have gotten new life in this decade through patches, mods, randomizers, online communities, etc.
Basically, there are no rules for this list other than "tell me what games you loved these past ten years, and why."
25 votes -
No Man's Sky update adds the "ByteBeat Device", a full audio-creation application
6 votes -
Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2019 edition
13 votes -
Path of Exile - Conquerors of the Atlas expansion and challenge league released
4 votes -
Death Stranding: Hideo Kojima’s latest release is strange, celebrated by critics, and highlights how hard it is for any video game to achieve mainstream legitimacy without a vast budget
5 votes -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare claims to walk an impossible line—it’s a story about torture and imperialism, and yet the writers say it's "not political," and "doesn't have a perspective."
13 votes -
QA Lead at Obsidian explains a bug in The Outer Worlds where the game decided your companion was dead, despite the fact that companions usually can't die
18 votes -
The Game Awards - Megathread
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a...
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a bunch of it here, and then we can discuss and post the actual winners in here later as well.
Sales
Announcements/Releases
- Sayonara Wild Hearts released on PC (20% off)
Events
- "The Game Festival" - 13 first-look demos of indie games available on Steam for 48 hours (announcement post)
Edit after the show: Article on CNET that lists all the winners of awards, as well as having embedded copies of most of the trailers/announcements/etc. that were shown
My original lists (incomplete)
Winners
- Best Community Support: Destiny 2
- Best Score & Music: Death Stranding
- Best Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Best Narrative: Disco Elysium
- Best Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Best Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Best Art Direction: Control
- Best Action Game: Devil May Cry 5
- Games for Impact: Gris
- Best Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Best Mobile Game: Call of Duty: Mobile
- Best Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends
- Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite
Edit: I'm not going to keep updating the winners, I'm sure there are a ton of lists out there - I'll edit in a link at the end
- Best Esports Coach: Zonic
- Best Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
- Best Esports Host: Sjokz
- Best Esports Team: G2 Esports
- Best Esports Player: Bugha
- Content Creator of the Year: Shroud
New trailers/announcements
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: X-Men Rise of the Phoenix DLC 2
- Man Eater - Gameplay Trailer
- Humankind - Official "Your Story" Gameplay Trailer
- No More Heroes 3 - The Return
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake - Cloud Strife Trailer
- Xbox Series X - World Premiere - releasing holiday 2020
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – The Game Awards 2019 – Announce Trailer (in-engine)
- Godfall - Official Cinematic Reveal Trailer
- Bravely Default II – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch
- Warframe Empyrean - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer
- Magic: The Gathering - Theros Beyond Death Official Trailer
- prologue - Reveal Trailer
- Sons of the Forest Trailer
- Ruined King: A League of Legends Story - Official Teaser Trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 - Behind the Music
- Dungeons & Dragons - Dark Alliance Announcement Trailer
- Weird West - Reveal Trailer
- Magic: Legends - Cinematic Teaser Trailer
- Ghost of Tsushima - Gameplay Trailer
- Gears Tactics World Premiere Trailer
- Naraka: Bladepoint - Official Announcement Trailer
Edit: dear god how long is this show? I'll edit in a link to a good summary later, I'm not going to keep watching.
Italicized links probably need a better source
16 votes -
2019 in Review: Gaming industry figures and companies faced a year of PR disasters and missteps with few lasting consequences, but some progress was made
7 votes -
The history of Castlevania world records
6 votes -
The Game Festival - A 48-hour event associated with The Game Awards that will make over a dozen first-look playable demos available on Steam
6 votes -
Boneworks | Launch trailer
7 votes -
Forza Horizon 4: "The Eliminator" - A battle-royale-inspired game mode, coming in a free update tomorrow
6 votes -
The Steam Awards nominees are starting to be revealed - one category daily until voting starts on December 19
6 votes -
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.
10 votes -
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is complete - After over six years of development, the final pieces (King of Cards and Showdown) have been released
9 votes -
Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase - December 10, 2019
5 votes -
PlayStation State of Play | December 10, 2019
5 votes -
2K announces the founding of Cloud Chamber, a new studio starting work on the next BioShock game
5 votes -
Death Come True announced - A full motion video game directed and written by Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka
5 votes -
Building a map with secret paths for Shovel Knight: King of Cards
3 votes -
Can you beat Pokemon Blue without getting hit? | VG Myths
7 votes -
Magnus Carlsen, the world's best chess player for the last decade, is on the brink of reaching the top in another game – fantasy football
12 votes -
Tough love: On Dark Souls' difficulty
7 votes -
Halo Master Chief Collection PC release confirmed, Halo Reach coming to Halo MCC
32 votes -
Black Mesa (the fan-made recreation of Half-Life) has released a complete beta version
16 votes -
PlayStation: The first twenty-five years - An oral history of Sony’s big gaming play, and how it changed the world
6 votes -
Credits are not 'extra' - why game credits matter
5 votes -
Can't seem to play the games I want to play, considering a forced-march approach
I was wondering if anybody had any tips for muscling through a game. I've got a few games I want to play or go back to, such as Stardew Valley (I completed it before the 1.3 update, wanna play...
I was wondering if anybody had any tips for muscling through a game. I've got a few games I want to play or go back to, such as Stardew Valley (I completed it before the 1.3 update, wanna play 1.4), and Factorio (I bought in a fit of passion, haven't gotten an hour in). There are others, but these are the two I find myself going "I'm going to play this!" and I just never get to, and it's not for time.
I like the concepts of these games, and I've got something like 135 hours on Stardew Valley, but seem to get bored after I've restarted it (I lost some key items and bugs caused me to never get them back, plus the mine completion bug fixed in 1.3). I started Slime Rancher after playing through it in early access, but can't seem to get back into it after it went gold a couple years ago.
I realize I'm sort of asking for a way to force myself to play games, but has anybody done this? I'm thinking for a given game I can set smaller goals to strive for, and work on doing that, but was wondering if anybody has any ideas.
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Humble seems to have accidentally revealed the games from its first "Humble Choice", which will replace Monthly on Dec 6
As previously discussed here, Humble Monthly is switching to a new model with no "mystery games" where you'll be able to choose which ones you want to keep from a set selection. It looks like the...
As previously discussed here, Humble Monthly is switching to a new model with no "mystery games" where you'll be able to choose which ones you want to keep from a set selection.
It looks like the games were inadvertently revealed already (image link), so the first month's options will probably be:
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Blasphemous
- Void Bastards
- Phantom Doctrine
- Dead In Vinland
- Horizon Chase Turbo
- Dark Future: Blood Red States
- Desert Child
- Aegis Defenders
- X-Morph: Defense
If that's an interesting set of games to you, you'll probably want to subscribe to Humble Monthly now to be grandfathered in on the "Classic" plan, which will let you keep all 10 games every month for $12/month (and you should be able to "pause" if you don't like a particular month). Otherwise, the plan options that will be available after Dec 6 are more expensive for fewer choices.
9 votes -
Games like Frostpunk and Papers, Please offer a unique opportunity to learn about oppressive regimes
5 votes -
Fantastic collectible, trading, expandable and living card games that aren't Magic: The Gathering
7 votes -
Lost piece of gaming history uncovered
4 votes -
The Last of Us — The art of video game storytelling
5 votes -
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.
15 votes -
DJMax Respect V will release a PC port in Steam Early Access on December 19, with 161 songs planned for release
6 votes -
Riot Games announces Riot Forge, a publishing label that will work with smaller studios to create games using League of Legends IP
7 votes -
GameRankings.com will shut down on December 9, replaced with a redirect to Metacritic
6 votes -
The modders who spent fifteen years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2
10 votes