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Reminder: Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard From Vampire Survivors Out Now For Switch 1 & 2

Transforming the “original hit” into a tactical deckbuilder. If you loved Vampire Survivors and want to dive back into this universe, here’s your reminder that Poncle’s newest game is now available for Switch 1 & 2. It’s officially titled Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors and it turns the “snowballing thrill of Survivors”…

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Back in 2009, an experimental free-to-play Battlefield predicted our grim live service present: ‘It will need to be the most popular Battlefield game of all time to be profitable’

It cannot be overstated how alien a concept “free-to-play” was just a few hardware generations ago. Long before we’d settled on a label for them, the only notable free-to-play games were browser-based MMOs, early MOBAs based on mods, and Korean games that had few players in the West. Free-to-play was niche in these parts, but…

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After 2 years of silence, an extraction shooter we liked back in 2022 for its ‘impeccable vibes’ suddenly springs back to life on Steam

In the year 2022, PC Gamer’s Morgan Park asked if the then-pre-release extraction shooter Marauders could “dethrone Escape From Tarkov with dieselpunk spaceships and impeccable vibes.” The answer, we would later learn, was “no.” Marauders launched into early access in October 2022 and came out of the gate with impressive concurrent player numbers on Steam,…

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