If you don’t already own XCOM 2 or Midnight Suns for some reason, they’re part of a big Firaxis Steam sale right now along with a bunch of other strategy greats

It’s our duty to tell you every time XCOM 2 goes on sale and it’s happened again. This time, the discount’s part of a Firaxis sale on Steam that ends at 10 am on November 17, although XCOM 2’s 95% off discount will end 41 hours from now, so get in quick. After that, it’ll…

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Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new ‘display-off, low-power’ mode before automatically going to sleep

Valve has just checked off a long-requested wishlist item for the Steam Deck: Downloading games even when the screen is turned off. The feature, available now in the Steam Deck’s beta client, is enabled by default when the Steam Deck is plugged in. The handheld will automatically complete all downloads in the queue with the…

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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says there’s a reason the Grand Theft Auto games are always set in US cities: ‘Guns’

The Grand Theft Auto games are famed for their sprawling recreations of famous US cities: Liberty City is New York City, Vice City is Miami, Los Santos is Los Angeles. And despite being around for nearly 30 years now, the series has—with one exception, noted further below—never ventured outside of American borders. In a recent…

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Maiden of the Dark hits 25% of Funding Goal

  Earlier today, Maiden of the Dark launched its Kickstarter campaign. The action platformer for the Game Boy is the first indie project from TigerChainsaw Studios, which is headquartered in Milwaukee. Led by TigerChainsaw, the four-person team also includes RetroRoo, PixelChunga, and OGM. Maiden of the Dark is an action platformer in the style of…

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