The more book tracking apps I try, the more I think we as gamers don’t realize just how good we’ve got it with Steam

My main two hobbies are gaming and reading. My third hobby is turning those other two hobbies into homework. That is not sarcasm; I love managing wishlists, surfing recommendations, and visualizing my stats with sortable spreadsheets and colorful pie charts. With gaming it’s easy. I dabble in spreadsheet logs occasionally, but I mainly lean on…

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Silent Hill f’s finicky combat doesn’t actually have to be an issue if you follow these cardinal rules

If you’ve been following the lead-up to Silent Hill f’s release, then you’ve probably heard some not-so-great things about its combat. I’ll concede that the first few enemy encounters can feel bad, rusty-old-knife-getting-sunk-into-your-shoulder bad. But it does get better, especially once you realise that you can just ignore most of the monsters you come across….

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Diablo 4 is crossing the streams with Starcraft cosmetics, and honestly? A Terran marine makes a better Barbarian than I’d have expected

Back in May, lead Diablo artists told PC Gamer that the best way to design Diablo art was to look at anything that wasn’t Diablo. Today, it seems those artists haven’t been looking terribly far afield, because Blizzard’s doing some good old-fashioned franchise synergizing by putting Starcraft skins in Diablo 4. In a blog post…

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