Gaelco’s lost 90s run-and-gun masterpiece is now available for PC and consoles! Play today!

Gaelco’s lost 90s run-and-gun masterpiece is now available for PC and consoles! Play today!

Biomechanical Toy is a frantic, arcade-style 2D side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer built for retro gaming enthusiasts who crave intense, nostalgic challenges. It delivers a highly unique, imaginative dark-fairytale aesthetic centered on biomechanical toys that have come to life, offering expressive, frame-heavy pixel animations and explosive combat mechanics that stood side-by-side with the absolute best of mid-90s…

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‘We’re interested in having the whole PC catalog as our ‘launch exclusive”: Valve talks exclusives and the advantages of an open platform

The living room PC is a certified thing now, and not just for those of us with extra long HDMI cables. The Steam Machine is “out” for the dozens of people who’ve picked up the $1,000 cube, but before that, folks were already making their own living room machines that run SteamOS. Anyone can make…

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Blizzard finally caved on Diablo 4’s disastrous new season with a patch that reverts almost everything players hated: ‘Not every idea lands exactly as intended’

In what feels like an inevitable move to combat an avalanche of criticism over the new Diablo 4 season, Blizzard has dropped an emergency patch that alleviates all the frustrations at the cost of undoing the entire point of it. The Season of Death Awakening has the usual stuff you’d expect from a Diablo 4…

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Marathon game director leaves Bungie just 4 months after launch: ‘I’ll be heading to something new, somewhere else’

Just four months after the release of Marathon, game director Joe Ziegler has announced that he’s leaving the game, and Bungie, effective today. His role will be filled by Del Chafe III, previously the assistant game director, who along with creative director Julia Nardin will “guide Marathon into the next chapter with an even better…

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Guerilla bus stop ads are taking aim at Meta’s AI glasses, and the latest stunt involves a horrifying They Live-style transforming image of Kylie Jenner

A post shared by Everyone Hates Elon (@everyonehateselon_) A photo posted by on Acerbic activism group Everyone Hates Elon (EHE) don’t just aim their ire at Mr. Musk. The group’s latest guerilla effort involves two bus stop ads lampooning Meta’s latest smart glasses offering, taking aim at the wearables’ capacity for covert surveillance. The first…

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TIL: All the computers on the set of Jurassic Park were real, and someone has finally catalogued them in ‘excruciating detail’ because life, uh, finds a way

Certain questions keep me awake at night. What is the purpose of consciousness? What will the world look like for our children? Which keyboard, exactly, is Samuel L Jackson’s character in Jurassic Park using when he attempts to access the systems and prevent more dinosaur escapes? Luckily, the last one now has an answer: it’s…

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