Feature: Portal 2 is 10, so here are 10 facts you might not know
Our boy Wheatley really did make it into orbit
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Apex Legends new character is the daughter of a Titanfall 2 boss
Valkyrie is a young and trendy mech pilot, sort of
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Celeste developers announce new game Earthblade
All they have to show now is art and music
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Amazon cancel their Lord Of The Rings MMO
Yet another setback for Amazon Games
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Path Of Exile had a difficult week of expansion issues and PR struggles
It definitely wasn't a smooth launch weekend
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Valve fix Steam security exploit after two years
It could've let hackers take remote control of players' PCs
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Feature: TFI Friday: 3 free Pico-8 games with good titles
Scratching an itch
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The vast and the furious.
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Feature: Returning to The Catacombs Of Solaris, a nascent "artsport"
Get lost amid a playful, shifting world of glitch art
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Feature: Creeper World 4 is a triumph of consistency
Two plus two equals four
News
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Cloud streaming of Xbox Game Pass games to Windows 10 PCs is now in closed beta
Also for Apple phones and tablets
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Skin Deep, aka Die Hard in space, gets a new trailer
It has a mech now
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Discord reportedly end buyout talks with Microsoft
$10 billion ain't what it used to be
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Ubisoft tell us why they shut Rainbow Six Vegas 2 servers
And say they're unable to support workarounds
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Desperados 3 is 50% off for the series' 20th birthday
And the older games are 75% off
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Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has left Blizzard
After 20 years with the company
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Watch out, crypto-mining SSDs are on the way now, too
A global SSD shortage could follow as a result
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A Steam hiccup pulled Rockstar's games, then briefly brought back Midnight Club 2
Supposedly it was all just a big accident
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AMD Link arrives on PC and lets friends join in for local co-op games
AMD's streaming app now lets friends link to your PC to play local multiplayer games remotely
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Warzone Season Three starts on Thursday the 22nd, devs confirm
And in the meantime, they've nerfed the Sykov
Deals
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Control is 53% off in Gamesplanet's Spring Sale
Plus loads more discounts on over 2500 games
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WD's 500GB Blue SN550 SSD is the cheapest it's been since Black Friday
Now down to £47, beating its Amazon Prime Day price
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Celebrate Earth Day with Humble's Down To Earth bundle
Get eight nature-themed games for £10 / $15
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Get Razer's £500 gaming chair for free with this RTX 2080 Super laptop
The bundle also includes a free keyboard, headset, water bottle and backpack, all for £1800
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Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes
Reviews
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Outriders review: A dopamine-dispensing closed loop for your monkey brain
Shiny space-trousers
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Same thing we do every night, reader...
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Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life review
Kiryu's final chapter hits hard
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Spacebase Startopia review: It does exactly what it needs to
It's life, Jim, but not quite exactly as we knew it 20 years ago
Supporter funded articles
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Mass Effect Andromeda would be way better if it had more trees
A vegetative state
Recently I have been hoofing through Mass Effect Andromeda in my spare time. Like, properly hoofing - 10 hours at a time, like I'm back to being an adolescent with nothing to do except play video games and eat huge quantities of the short-lived early-noughties crisp spinoff Wotsits Wafflers. If anyone knows where I can source Wafflers, please get in touch.
Much like the Wafflers, …
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Failing at Desperados 3 is the best way to play it
I love it when a plan comes together
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I haven't played Nioh 2 in a while, and I'm scared to go back
I reckon it's a bit like "place lag"
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I want more games to redefine what 'survival' means
Mainly so I can be good at survival games
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The adventure game has a demo too
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Our top gaming headset recommenations
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