This game about channel surfing surreal alien broadcasts used to be exclusive to a 1-bit console with a crank—but now it’s coming to Steam

Playdate received an oddity called Blippo Plus earlier this year. It turns the handheld console into a strange little television, so that twisting the crank feels akin to switching channels on an old analog TV dial. Sometimes you’ll find a cryptic animation, or else a live action musical performance. Some channels show a mysteriously static…

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Pity poor Capcom: Monster Hunter Wilds’ latest patch introduced a new crash bug, developers are working on it and ‘will provide further updates when we have them’

Capcom’s efforts to make Monster Hunter Wilds better have, for some players, instead succeeded in making it worse. The studio says it’s aware of a bug introduced in the new 1.021 update that’s causing crashes, and it’s now working on a fix. Reports of crashes began to surface on Reddit shortly after the 1.021 update…

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In what was likely a karmic inevitability, Palworld now has its own shameless imitator on the Switch

While Nintendo might’ve found a way to bring Pocketpair to court over patents it arguably shouldn’t have been awarded in the first place, it’s telling that even its military-grade legal hit squad didn’t try to nail Palworld for its Pokemon knockoffery. But while I’ll defend Palworld’s legal right to pretend Dinossom isn’t just Lilligant‘s flower…

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I think Dungeons and Dragons peaked in 1982 and that’s why I can’t wait to play this ‘hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler’ coming next year

Every now and then I run across a game that looks like it will be my thing—not that it necessarily will be my thing, but the vibe is undeniable. The Secret of Weepstone, revealed today, is one such game: “A hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler RPG inspired by classic D&D of the ’80s” that’s…

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‘This year seems shakier than ever,’ BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says, and live service games are a big part of the reason—but Grand Theft Auto 6 might force the industry to change

Former BioWare stalwart Mark Darrah began his career at BioWare as a programmer on the original Baldur’s Gate, and finished more than 20 years later as executive producer on Dragon Age and Anthem. He’s been around, in other words, he’s seen some things, and he has some thoughts on the current state of the videogame…

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Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, ‘but the timeline is uncertain’

Hassles with credit card processors over adult content isn’t the only payment headache Steam is facing these days. Valve is also getting grief from PayPal, which is no longer being accepted as a form of payment in much of the world. Going by posts about the problem in the Steam subreddit, the issue was first…

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