Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first 'dopamine site', so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent

Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first ‘dopamine site’, so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent

Watch Dogs 2 is currently $2.50 on Steam. It’s hardly a classic, but it’s not terrible either. At one cent per 10 minutes of content, how can you resist? It’s only five pleasantly tactile mouse clicks away. Maybe you can’t resist. During Steam’s seasonal sales it’s possible to scoop up dozens of games for less…

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Farpoint Announced for PlayStation VR

Hello PS fans. I’m proud to introduce you to Impulse Gear and our first project, Farpoint. Developed exclusively for play in PlayStation VR, Farpoint is an unnerving space adventure set on a hostile alien world. After crash landing you have to fight to survive as you explore and uncover the planet’s secrets. Your only hope…

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REPO will never be free-to-play ‘as we don’t want to add microtransactions’, say devs—hinting at earned cosmetics in the future

Semiwork has announced that REPO will never be free-to-play, a promise meant to avoid ever featuring microtransactions within the game. As it stands, everything you need to play, even including personalisable flourishes like customising the color of your robot, is standard-issue or unlockable with in-game currency. In a recent Q&A uploaded to YouTube, semiwork explained…

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The Procedural World Generation of Far Cry 5

Hello PlayStation fans, My name is Étienne Carrier, technical artist at Ubisoft Montréal. Far Cry 5 will be available in a few days and I can’t wait for everyone to start exploring the beautiful world the team has created. With Far Cry 5, the team deployed state-of-the-art tech to recreate the magnificence of our fictional…

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Netflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms

Spry Fox, the Seattle-based studio behind cozy games like Cozy Grove, got purchased by Netflix back in 2022 when the streaming giant was really trying to get into this whole videogame thing. While the acquisition did bear fruit—an upcoming mobile co-op life sim called Spirit Crossing—Spry Fox is parting ways with its owner after just…

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LEGO NES now available to buy

The recently announced LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System is now available to purchase on the official LEGO site. The buildable item is priced at $229.99 and is limited to two units per-person. You can order your own right here. The new NES Building Kit will include a controller with a connecting cable and plug and even…

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Fast Food Dizzy 2 – An unofficial Amiga AGA sequel to Codemaster’s Fast Food Dizzy is getting a Big Box deluxe edition!

AcidBottle(Abgames) is certainly no stranger to creating quality releases for the Amiga, the Arcade to Commodore Amiga game of Breakthru and Wonder Boy are just two of the ones that stand out on IndieRetroNews. Well here are with another fantastic news story in relation to AcidBottle. As thanks to our good friends BitmapSoft letting us…

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