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7 votes
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2020 Pokémon Oceania International Championships: VGC Junior Division Finals
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Spiritfarer | Gameplay teaser
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What you can expect from the Xbox Series X
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New patch for The Witcher 3 on Switch enables sharing a saved game with the PC version (Steam/GOG) and adds extensive graphics options
16 votes -
Myst (or, the drawbacks to success)
10 votes -
Ross's Game Dungeon: (a review of) Deus Ex
7 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.
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Introducing Jumpstart: a new way to play Magic: the Gathering that combines limited and constructed formats using 20-card themed boosters
6 votes -
Hue Jumper - This entire game fits in a 2048 byte zip file! Made for 2kPlus Jam
19 votes -
The design challenges of Children of Morta
5 votes -
VirtuaVerse | A cyberpunk point-and-click game releasing on May 12th 2020
11 votes -
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct - February 20, 2020
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord will be released in Early Access on March 31, 2020
11 votes -
Kerbal Space Program 2: Episode 1 - Next Gen Tech
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Scythe’s Automa designer on making cardboard AI feel human in solo board games
8 votes -
Twenty-six new Final Fantasy VII Remake screenshots show Red XIII, Hojo, new battle abilities, summons, quest types, and more
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The cost of PlayStation 5: Are we looking at a $500 console?
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Tell me about your RPG campaign
Hey folks, I haven't posted in a hell of a long time and thought why not get this going again. So when I last posted I think my Paladin had just been basically killed off and I wrote up a druid....
Hey folks, I haven't posted in a hell of a long time and thought why not get this going again.
So when I last posted I think my Paladin had just been basically killed off and I wrote up a druid. Well this one has been amazingly fun to role play, being that he has lived most of his life in solitude he has no social skills and tends to do things that can be a little off at times. Our merry band of misfits had cleared a small towns problem warerats who turned out to be a family of Gnomes who lived there, while trying to console the final member of the family Rolen (my druid) felt the best way to give emotional support would be to congratulate the young Gnome on becoming the head of the family. This actually broke the whole table for about a minute, the DM sat in silence for a moment, laughed, tried to role play the distraught girl but failed epically.
We have also got another campaign going with a few of the same guys as the bigger campaign, this one is mostly homebrew. The first character I made I really wasn't happy with so spoke to the DM and we worked out how to kill her off and introduce the new character I made, completely homebrew this one and it's again been far more fun. He is a Dwaf Shaman whose ancestors speak to him constantly, sometimes good and sometimes not so much.
So what has been happening in your RPGs? anything big, fun or just want to chat about? painted anything cool? got new dice? anything at all.
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The outsize, oft-ignored legacy of the original Dragon Quest
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Game Boy Pocket Sonar: Find fish with the Game Boy
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Blizzard's long history of manic pixie nightmare girls and fear of women
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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem | Release trailer
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Tildes' Valentine's Day Game Giveaway: Gaming Blind Dates!
Gaming Blind Dates Event For Valentine's Day, the Tildes Game Gifting Group is offering up a number of "blind dates" for any gamer who is interested in trying out something new. Each gift is a...
Gaming Blind Dates Event
For Valentine's Day, the Tildes Game Gifting Group is offering up a number of "blind dates" for any gamer who is interested in trying out something new. Each gift is a game, but you won't know the game's name -- only the top 4 tags describing the game. Select the tags which most interest you, then find out the exactly who the game is once it's given to you! Hopefully it's a keeper!
How can I participate?
You may choose to:
- gift a game/games as a blind date for others,
- go on a gaming blind date (i.e. receive a game gift),
- or both!
Steps to enroll:
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Comment either in this thread here on Tildes, or in the thread on the Steam group (if you are already a member).
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In your comment, identify whether you would like to gift a game, go on a gaming blind date, or both!
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If you are not already a member of the Tildes' Game Gifting Group on Steam, PM me with a link to your Steam profile so that I can friend and add you (the group is invite-only).
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If you are gifting a game, PM me or message me on Steam with the name of the game, how you will gift it (e.g. store purchase, key, etc.), and the platform it's on (if not Steam).
Timeline
You may enroll up through Thursday, February 13. Once all the participants have enrolled, the blind dates will be set up and will begin on Valentine's Day, Friday, February 14.
Additional Info
To ensure that giftees will have a good chance of liking their gifted game, we are requiring that gifted games have a combined user review score of at least 80%. You don't need to worry about getting a bad or junk game!
Games are given freely by their generous donors, and there are no strings attached or hidden catches. You ARE allowed to receive a game even if you don't gift one!
For other questions/specifics, full details are available in the event thread in the Steam group.
Note: If you do not wish to see this thread in your Tildes feed, please use the ignore function to hide it!
21 votes -
Google Stadia announces five upcoming games, including three "First on Stadia" titles
8 votes -
Epic Games Store - "For the Love of the Games" sale until Feb 27
8 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.
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30XX | Reveal trailer
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At seventy-five, Jessica Hoffmann Davis buys a PS4 and learns to play Red Dead Redemption 2 so that she can experience the performance of her son, the actor for Dutch
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How Hades plays with Greek mythology and weaves narrative into the endless cycle of dungeon runs
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Half-Life: Alyx's release date is March 23, 2020
@valvesoftware: Half-Life: Alyx, available March 23, 2020 https://t.co/NCOLWqSp3e
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LUNA The Shadow Dust | Launch trailer
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Drew Karpyshyn (lead writer on Mass Effect 1 and 2, among other games) is now the lead writer at Archetype Entertainment, a new Wizards of the Coast studio
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Accessible game design and focusing on the gaps
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Outriders | Official reveal trailer
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Stardew Valley developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone shares first details on two new games
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Satisfactory | Update 3 reveal trailer
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The Division 2’s new expansion will rev up the story, revamp gameplay
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Dead Cells - The Bad Seed | DLC gameplay trailer - releasing Feb. 11
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The effectiveness of the limited animation in the Phoenix Wright / Ace Attorney series
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One year after Anthem's launch, BioWare is stopping work on seasonal content to let the team focus on a "substantial reinvention" of the gameplay
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Finland's biggest game maker Supercell reported its full-year 2019 sales rose 2% to 1.39 billion euros
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What are your thoughts on how romance is handled in gaming?
Romantic relationships in gaming are often heavily debated, with lots of criticism and lots of support for the myriad experiences out there. I don't have a single specific question related to the...
Romantic relationships in gaming are often heavily debated, with lots of criticism and lots of support for the myriad experiences out there. I don't have a single specific question related to the topic, only some guiding ones. Feel free to answer any/all of these, or simply give your thoughts on the topic:
- What are some games that you feel have handled romance well?
- What are some games that you feel have not handled romance well?
- What particular advantages does gaming have with regard to portraying romantic relationships?
- What particular disadvantages does gaming have with regard to portraying romantic relationships?
- Are there any games that have depicted romantic relationships that were particularly resonant to you?
- What would you define as some "best practices" for game writers/designers with regard to in-game romance?
- What would you define as some "mistakes/errors" for game writers/designers to avoid with regard to in-game romance?
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The story of Tetris
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Steam - 2019 year in review
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Openish-world, Mystery, Walking Simulator recommendations?
My wife and I enjoy playing mystery walking simulators together and have been looking for more-- Steam's recommendation engine is pretty terrible in finding others or lesser-known titles, so I...
My wife and I enjoy playing mystery walking simulators together and have been looking for more-- Steam's recommendation engine is pretty terrible in finding others or lesser-known titles, so I thought I'd ask around for what others play! They don't have to be full-on walking simulators, just games where dying is rare/not a big component of the experience (looking at you, Visage!), and the rest of the game is all about solving a mystery/thriller of some sort. Preferably first-person games with realistic-enough graphics.
Ones we've played so far and have loved are:
- Dead Secret
- Gone Home (loose fit)
- The Painscreek Killings (really loved this one)
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Ones I've got in my queue:
- Anna
- Bohemian Killing
- Dead Secret 2
- Return of Obra Dinn
I've also played What Remains of Edith Finch, Dear Esther, Firewatch, and some others-- but those didn't really have a big enough mystery component to them (to be clear I liked them, they just didn’t have a dark/thriller vibe to em).
Any other suggestions?
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A history of Simlish, the language that defined The Sims
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Odroid Go Advance Review - Should You Buy One?
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Humble Choice - February 2020
February's Humble Choice (the new version of Humble Monthly) is now available, with 12 choices for games again this month: Frostpunk + The Rifts DLC Pathfinder: Kingmaker Book of Demons Cryofall...
February's Humble Choice (the new version of Humble Monthly) is now available, with 12 choices for games again this month:
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Below - Announcing a new, easier Explore Mode and PS4 version
6 votes