Baby Steps is funny, but it’s also a depressing, confrontational horror game about thwarted modern masculinity

SHAUN PRESCOTT, AUSTRALIAN EDITOR (Image credit: Future) Last week: After the pain of Silksong, played through a quiet, easygoing metroidvania called Adventure of Samsara. When I started Baby Steps earlier this week I thought it would end up being the funniest game ever made. Every time the bulbous antihero fell over I would laugh. I…

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The ROG Xbox Ally X priced at $1,000 and available to preorder in October, making it officially the most expensive ‘Xbox’ ever

Xbox’s latest device isn’t a new console: instead, it’s a set of familiar-looking handheld gaming PCs, and very expensive ones at that. After months of teases, rumours, and speculation, we finally have the official pricing details. You will be able to preorder both the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X as of today, with the…

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While Deus Ex’s confounding remaster is $30, the entire series is on sale for less than $10 on Steam

The Deus Ex remaster has met a chilly response from PC gamers thanks to the baffling liberties it’s taking with the landmark RPG’s art style. If that weren’t enough, its $30 price tag ($26 for preorders) only looks more ridiculous when you consider that the entire mainline series⁠—Deus Ex, Invisible War, Human Revolution, and Mankind…

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9 months after cancelling Transformers: Reactivate, Splash Damage splits from Tencent and is now owned by private equity investors

Splash Damage, the studio known for its work on Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Brink, Gears Tactics, and the cancelled Transformers: Reactivate, has parted ways with Tencent, and is now owned by private equity investors. The studio confirmed the change in a statement provided to GamesIndustry, saying it will continue to operate under its current leadership team…

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