7 years after unique puzzle brawler Battle Chef Brigade, its creators are back with another offbeat genre mash-up: 'People like card games, hopefully they like card games that have really good characters'

7 years after unique puzzle brawler Battle Chef Brigade, its creators are back with another offbeat genre mash-up: ‘People like card games, hopefully they like card games that have really good characters’

In 2017, Battle Chef Brigade was the kind of indie hit that’s increasingly rare on the packed Steam store of 2024. The fascinating and novel combination of brawler and match-three puzzler didn’t sell millions upon millions of copies or make its way onto many Game of the Year lists like this year’s Balatro, but it…

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My worst fears of a PlayStation-exclusive future for FromSoftware have been averted for now: Sony is forming a ‘strategic alliance’ with parent company Kadokawa, but hasn’t bought it outright

Sony has increased its stake in FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa to 10%, becoming the largest shareholder in the business, while the two corporations have entered into a “strategic capital and business alliance” according to a joint press release. It had been rumored for several weeks that Sony was in talks to fully acquire Kadokawa and…

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My favourite extraction shooter, The Forever Winter, adds a playable character with a functional gun for a head, tackles its most divisive mechanic and introduces its biggest region yet

The Forever Winter is one of the few extraction shooters I’ve clicked with—a post-apocalyptic warzone where you play as insignificant scavengers scurrying across desolate battlefields, trying to find loot while soldiers, cyborgs and building-sized machines duke it out all around you. It’s tough, intense, and keeps on impressing me with its exceptional art design and…

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Steam’s 2024 Winter Sale is live

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means: The 2024 Steam Winter Sale has begun. This is the big one—well, one of them, anyway—with deals galore on literally thousands of games, and plenty of Steam stuff to pick up including free stickers for browsing your Discovery Queue (nine of…

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Path of Exile 2’s huge passive skill tree used to scare me, but now I’ve started treating it as ‘open-world character creation’ I’ve fallen in love with the whole thing

I admit it: I’m a coward. The first time I fired up Path of Exile 1, accidentally tabbing over to its sprawling passive skill tree filled me with an instinctual dread, like I was coming face to face with some ancestral human enemy. How could my frail, mortal mind ever hope to make sense of…

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Arrowhead Games’ heart grows three sizes as it swerves away from its controversial crossover plans for Helldivers 2’s Killzone collab, offers the second half for free

Ah, Arrowhead Games, never change—in the continual, eternal cycle of “it’s so over” and “we’re so back”, the Helldivers 2 devs have done a 180-degree turn on their current Killzone collaboration, which was incredibly unpopular for a few important reasons. Namely, because it was a bunch of weirdly expensive kit that’s only available for purchase…

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