The effort to canonize a Steam tag for the world’s Survivorslikes and Bullet Heavens intensifies with a public poll and celebratory sale aiming to finally settle on a name for the misfit genre

Of all the ideological struggles pervading our world today, none is more crucial than the effort to decide what we should actually call all the games like Vampire Survivors. This week, more than 450 developers are joining forces to solve that frustrating quandary of categorical nomenclature with a public survey aiming to finally settle on…

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Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding was ‘too unique’, OD’s going to be ‘completely different’, but Physint’s an espionage game so ‘you can make it in your sleep’

It’s been a busy old year for Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions, with the release of Death Stranding 2 earlier this year (the inevitable PC version is yet to be given a release date), two film adaptations of the series—one live action, one animated—in the works, as well as an anime being cooked up at…

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Skate Story review

It’s one of my life’s greatest shames that I do not and cannot skate. Need to Know What is it? A skateboarding descent through nine surreal layers of Hell on a quest to eat the moon.Expect to pay: $20 / £18Developer: Sam EngPublisher: Devolver DigitalReviewed on: Windows 11, Intel i7-14700K, RTX 4070, 32GB RAMMultiplayer? NoSteam…

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World of Warcraft players are already discovering new tech with its player housing—turns out, you can sit anywhere as long as you’re able to fit a chair inside

World of Warcraft‘s player housing has hit the live servers—as long as you’ve purchased Midnight—and players are already having a blast making all kinds of nonsense. Also, they’ve found out secret, illicit (not really) wizard tech for being able to sit anywhere. I’m a smidge late to the game here, as this was already discovered…

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Good news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027

Meta has reportedly pushed back the release of its mixed reality (MR) glasses, codenamed “Phoenix”, to 2027. That’s despite having already spent billions of dollars on projects for digitally enhancing our everyday world. On the plus side, we have received more information on the next Quest headset. Allegedly stated in two internal memos seen by…

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Starsand Island is a warm, familiar farming sim hug that comes with all of the weird jank that seems to haunt 3D cosy games

One day the well of dead videogame granddads with overgrown plots of farmland will dry up, but today is not that day. Starsand Island is full of those fuzzy cosy farming sim familiarities,. Despite it doing almost nothing new, I “one more’d” myself through all 10 days of its extended press demo anyway. Starsand Island…

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