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Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter launched

By Alice O'Connor, Mar 06, 2013 6:45am PST

Hey, you! Do you want a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment? I am, of course, only asking for rhetorical effect: you do. You'll need to pay for it, though. inXile Entertainment today launched its crowdfunding campaign to make Torment: Tides of Numenera, a thematic and...

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"Was happy to see that $45 option for both Wasteland 2 and Numenera."

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Humble Bundle with Android 5 launched

By Alice O'Connor, Mar 06, 2013 6:00am PST

The Humble stork has delivered another big bouncing bundle of games in the Humble Bundle with Android 5. The latest pay-what-you-want package offers musical shoot 'em up Beat Hazard Ultra, Dynamite Jack, Solar 2, NightSky HD, and, if you beat the average price, tower defens...

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"My game design professor talks about this game all the time. It's a really simple game but the ..."

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Steam Box prototypes coming to 'customers' in '3-4 months'

By Andrew Yoon, Mar 05, 2013 3:45pm PST

It won't be much longer until a few lucky gamers will get a chance to try out an early version of the "Steam Box"

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"Word on the strizz is that Valve is working on drivers for Linux, so that these games will play."

- Phunky Bob see all 17 comments

Dreamfall Chapters trailer is pretty

By Alice O'Connor, Mar 04, 2013 6:45am PST

Have you pledged money to the Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey crowdfunding campaign yet? Yes? Then you'll be thrilled by this new trailer for Ragnar Tørnquist's conclusion to the adventure game trilogy. No? Then perhaps this'll win you over. Or not. Whatever. Watch ...

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"What kind of game is this? Do you go around doing quests, is it 3rd person, 1st person, what do ..."

- EternaLife see all 6 comments

Anomaly 2 bringing more tower offense

By Alice O'Connor, Mar 01, 2013 6:45am PST

Defending towers is so passé; let them burn! Heck, raze them yourself! No, tower offense is where 'it' 'is at', and Anomaly: Warzone Earth developer 11 Bit Studios is delivering another dose of path-pushing action with Anomaly 2. Announced yesterday, the sequel's coming to ...

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BIT.TRIP Runner2 review: moving forward

By Ozzie Mejia, Feb 27, 2013 12:00pm PST

If the first BIT.TRIP Runner was a confectionery treat, then Runner2 is simply the same treat with a different flavor. Both play similarly, but Runner2 takes everything about the first game that worked and added modern ideas without compromising what made it so much fun in t...

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The Basement Collection gets $20 retail collection

By Andrew Yoon, Feb 19, 2013 5:00pm PST

Team Meat's Edmund McMillen recently released "The Basement Collection," which you can now pick up in a $20 box set.

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Death Inc. demo samples Kickstarted RTS

By Alice O'Connor, Feb 19, 2013 3:30pm PST

Killing people: it's what video games are about. Usually you're just some low-grade, supposedly-admirable sociopath, but Ambient Studios' real-time strategy Death Inc. puts you in the grand robes of a freelance reaper, Grim T. Livingstone, to help spread the plague. To suppo...

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Dreamfall Chapters reveals prototype gameplay as Kickstarter goal nearly hit

By Alice O'Connor, Feb 15, 2013 6:00am PST

Well then, an awful lot of people were certainly waiting for more of The Longest Journey. Creator Ragnar Tørnquist's Kickstarter campaign seeking $850,000 to conclude the trilogy with Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey has passed 90% of that goal in only one week, prom...

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"is that supposed to be Zoey? She doesn't look right at all, i hope they fix that."

- Zengotten see all 14 comments

Steam for Linux officially launches

By Andrew Yoon, Feb 14, 2013 11:30am PST

After a lengthy beta period, Valve has finally launched Steam for Linux officially.

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"that sucks :( tf2 on my 560ti, maxed out, 2048x1152, i sits around 150fps on average"

- harold.johnson see all 18 comments

Half-Life, Counter-Strike add Linux support

By Steve Watts, Feb 11, 2013 4:00pm PST

Valve has updated two of its classic titles, Half-Life and Counter-Strike, with Linux support.

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"Are you talking about the expansions like Opposing Force and BlueShift or the episodes for HL2. "

- TheEmissary see all 4 comments

Wasteland 2 walkthrough reveals early gameplay

By Alice O'Connor, Feb 11, 2013 6:00am PST

Ten months after its smash-hit Kickstarter ended, inXile Entertainment has shown off the first proper footage of the crowdfunded Wasteland 2. The trailer packs a whopping fifteen minutes of post-apocalyptic RPG fun, narrated by dev director Chris Keenan, looking a fine follo...

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"Wasn't that Merle (Michael Rooker) from Walking Dead, in the 2nd Radio message (complaining ..."

- AxeMan808 see all 14 comments

The Cave review: funky spelunking

By Jeff Mattas, Jan 30, 2013 1:00pm PST

We plumb the depths of The Cave, the latest adventure game from Double Fine Productions and adventure game pioneer, Ron Gilbert.

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"AGREED. They need a damn follow or rally button. Its a drag managing the three protagonist."

- rtricoche see all 6 comments

Arma Tactics announced for Nvidia's Project Shield

By Alice O'Connor, Jan 30, 2013 8:15am PST

When Nvidia announced its big goofy Android handheld Project Shield earlier in the month, it also quietly revealed Arma Tactics as one of its games. Developer Bohemia Interactive today formally announced that mobile game as a "turn-based close-combat strategy" affair, mentio...

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"It does both. Streams games from your PC and plays Android games directly on the device."

- jra101 see all 3 comments

Proteus strolling out on January 30

By Alice O'Connor, Jan 21, 2013 2:00pm PST

Thrills, chills, and gently rolling hills are coming on January 30 with the launch of dreamy explore 'em up Proteus on PC and Mac. For $9.99, the playable song will send you off on a lovely countryside stroll, playing with local flora and fauna to build a wonderful procedura...

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"I bought this last week after reading a PC Gamer article on it. It is seriously the best game ..."

- at0micgarden see all 3 comments