Tiny Metal 2 is the third game in the turn-based strategy series, and it just so happens to be taking after my favorite Advance Wars

2001’s Advance Wars is a perfect little game: Compact yet tactically rich, a purposefully limited but versatile library of units like top-heavy tanks and chonky bombers smashing together in rock-paper-scissors shoot-outs. The only wildcard, each commanding officer’s slow-charging heroic power, can swing the tide of a battle but is still relatively tame—like gaining a couple…

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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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