Nightdive Studios’ Stephen Kick has 8,544 hours in Dota 2, and just clocked his 5,000th win: ‘I think it’s made me a better leader’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “how tidy is your desktop?” and “what game will you never uninstall?” As with many first-generation PC gamers, Stephen Kick was exposed…

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This wild Doom 2 mod that blends World War 1 combat with a vicious holy war just unleashed a gnarly prequel campaign where you assault a mountain riddled with heretics

I’ve had one eye on ambitious Doom 2 mod Trench Foot for a while, though it was, admittedly, my weaker eye that requires me to wear corrective lenses. I had assumed Trench Foot was a total conversion set in the First World War, but it turns out it’s much weirder than that. It basically combines…

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Fish wrangling management sim Megaquarium is getting a major free update alongside its upcoming DLC: ‘I’ve learned a lot over the years about what makes a good Megaquarium campaign’

If you’re looking for a management sim that’s a bit on the lighter side, you could certainly do worse than Megaquarium. Twice Circled’s aquarium construction sim is all about building oceanic attractions and filling them with weird and wonderful sea life. The base game released eight years ago, but Twice Circled has updated it consistently…

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Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another

Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Taking to Discord to sell my favourite weirdoes on my current cozy games of choice: Starsand Island, Potionomics, and Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale. Currently, I can’t check my Bluesky direct messages until I’ve allowed the Epic Games-owned KWS to look at either my…

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