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Paralives launch times and release date

It’s finally happening: we’re getting a third life sim on the block when the Paralives launch arrives later today. The Sims series is about to have yet another new neighbor and this girl next door is looking like a real diamond in the rough. Paralives is not coming in flawless at its early access launch,…

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Steam Week in Review: Steam is flooded with liminal spaces games and I approve, but I think I’ve found the best to start with

Dreamcore is a collection of first-person explorable “liminal spaces”. All the most obvious examples are included: There’s an eerily nostalgic labyrinth of indoor pools, an endless expanse of low-poly suburbia, a maze of barren children’s play areas, and—least interestingly, in my opinion—a “liminal hotel” styled on a Backrooms meme. Liminal spaces are incredibly popular on…

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Peak boss doesn’t mind us calling it friendslop: ‘Why not make a game where the point is to hang out with your friends?’

2025 was the year of friendslop: bite-sized, inexpensive games that center co-op and proximity voice chat as vehicles for silliness, scares, and slapstick. One of the genre’s biggest smash hits, Peak, is a poster child for the slightly maligned, kind of derogatory label. But in an interview at GDC, Aggro Crab studio head Nick Kaman…

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