Slot machine roguelike CloverPit sells 1 million copies, and its developer celebrates the payout by adding its 'most requested feature yet'

Slot machine roguelike CloverPit sells 1 million copies, and its developer celebrates the payout by adding its ‘most requested feature yet’

Spooky gambling roguelike CloverPit has hit the jackpot for developer Panik Arcade, selling a million copies since it was released at the end of September. Seems a lot of people can’t resist the allure of playing with a cursed one-armed bandit in a dingy basement that’s possibly also in hell. “Thank you so much for…

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We’re Getting A Final Fight Comic This July

Alongside “Street Fighter Vs Final Fight”. Udon Studios has announced that it is producing a new 4-issue Final Fight comic series in collaboration with IP holder Capcom, and it’s launching in July. Based on the 1989 arcade game of the same name, this series will seemingly tie-in with Udon’s ongoing Street Fighter comic series, seeing…

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Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: ‘Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right’

Size Five Games’ Dan Marshall has been making games for around 20 years, and was one of the early indie adopters of Steam when he released the excellent Time Gentlemen, Please! on the platform back in 2009. He’s been around the block, then, and he’s seen it change dramatically. Trying to figure out the secret…

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Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there’s (almost) no good reason to believe is happening

Half-Life 3 fever has once again broken out across social media, and the Half-Life subreddit is full of both earnestly hopeful and sarcastically dismissive posts about the supposedly imminent announcement of a sequel to Valve’s landmark 2004 shooter—probably the most speculated-about game ever not to exist. You might think that all this anticipation was prompted…

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