I still believed ‘cheap’ controllers were a last resort until I picked up this amazing 8BitDo pad, now at its lowest price ever for Amazon Prime Day

8Bitdo Ultimate 2.4G | Hall Effect | Wireless | Charging dock | $49.99 $34.99 at Amazon (save $15) A premium controller that is somehow half the price of a PS5 DualSense right now. Assuming you like the ergonomics that most closely resemble a Switch Pro controller, you’ll find a lot to love here: large face…

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Another live service shooter comes to a premature end: Steel Hunters, the mech game that launched into early access in April, is closing in October

Just over six months after the free-to-play mech shooter Steel Hunters was revealed to the world with a spectacular trailer at the 2024 Game Awards, and three months after launching into early access, developer Wargaming has seen enough, and it’s pulling the plug. “Today we share difficult news: we’ve made the decision to sunset Steel…

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This competitive Blue Prince speedrun from SGDQ 2025 is the pinnacle of human athleticism

Blue Prince is a phenomenal puzzle game about methodically, meticulously excavating a fractal web of interlaced mysteries and metanarrative plots to navigate a shifting labyrinth, a geopolitical intrigue, and a troubled family legacy. It’s also, it turns out, a hype as hell competitive event capable of filling a conference hall with cheering spectators, as proven…

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John Wick Hex and Tron Catalyst dev Mike Bithell thinks licensed games have evolved past ‘lunchbox tie-ins’ because ‘the people who played licensed games are now bosses in the companies that are licensing IP’

Speaking to Bithell Games founder Mike Bithell on the release of the studio’s latest game, Tron: Catalyst, I had to get his take on the current state of licensed games. The days of every movie getting a PS2 tie-in have long past, and we seem to have settled into a new era of smaller-scale spin-offs…

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After 15 years of busted marksdwarves, Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams says archers will finally refill their ammo ‘instead of leaping over walls and clubbing people with their crossbows’

As a longtime Dwarf Fortress devotee, the last few years of DF development have felt like a wonder. For most of the procedural fantasy sim’s history, there could be years between updates as development progress was subject to the circumstances affecting the Adams brothers’ lives and attention. Since joining with Kitfox Games for the Steam…

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