Valve is dropping local currency support for Turkey and Argentina amid ‘exchange rate volatility,’ moving to ‘regionalized USD pricing’ for 25 countries

Valve is making changes to Steam pricing in Argentina and Turkey that will see game sales in those countries switched from their local currencies—the Argentine peso and Turkish lira—to US dollars. The change is being made to address “exchange rate volatility” that Valve says has made it difficult for developers to set and maintain prices…

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After almost a decade in the making, the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie is being mauled by critics: ‘not scary,’ ‘bloodless,’ ‘puzzling’

After years of collaboration between Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthorn and multiple filmmakers—first with Warner Bros, then Blumhouse—the point-and-click horror series has finally become a movie. But possibly not a great one. Five Nights at Freddy’s will be out in theaters and streaming on Peacock this Friday in the US, but it’s already…

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14 console games that should’ve been on PC instead

In the days before constant PC ports, the divide between PC and console gaming used to be cavernous. Seemingly insurmountable. Times have changed, thankfully, but history has left many games trapped stubbornly on the consoles of yesteryear—even some that feel like they actually belonged on PC in the first place. Whether it was technical ambition…

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2023’s most slept-on horror game is getting an absolutely sadistic new mode where nearly everything’s randomized and you have to spend precious fuel just to save

I absolutely love Amnesia: The Bunker⁠—it’s gotten lost in the tangle of one of the best years for gaming in a long time, but The Bunker is quietly one of the best horror games I’ve ever played. Now Frictional Games is augmenting that already mondo-stressful experience with a surprise Halloween update and harder-than-hard “Shell Shock”…

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