My Steam account is now forever tainted with an achievement I got for accidentally upskirting a katana-wielding machine girl

My Steam account is now forever tainted with an achievement I got for accidentally upskirting a katana-wielding machine girl

Even after a couple of hours with Full Metal Schoolgirl, I’m not entirely sure what it wants to be: a shooter, a roguelite, a campy yet lewd robo-corpo hack-and-slash? It’s a little bit of everything, and doesn’t particularly excel in any aspect. Yet I’m weirdly endeared to its bizarre late 2000s jankiness. It reeks of…

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Subnautica 2 devs say it’s ‘bigger and more polished’ than any of the studio’s previous early access launches

On the eve of Subnautica 2’s early access launch, calling it hotly anticipated would be a wild understatement. It’s Steam’s most-wanted game, as over 5 million users have added it to their wishlist in the run-up to launch. The masses yearn for the deep. Despite the high-stakes hype, Subnautica 2’s developers at Unknown Worlds say…

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s development got so bad that it almost turned its devs away from the industry for good: ‘I could feel myself coming apart at the seams’

I have a couple of very vague memories of playing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League back when it released a couple of years ago. Mostly, I remember thinking ‘meh’. Some of the action was quite fun—although it quickly lost its charm—I didn’t mesh with any of the characters and their hit-and-miss humour, but its…

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Abiotic Factor review

I’ll just get it out in the open: Abiotic Factor is one of the greatest survival crafting games ever made, and by far my favorite. It’s an easy declaration to make because, unlike most games I’ve put a score on, I’ve had a lot of time to think about this one. NEED TO KNOW What…

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Feature: “We’ve Tried To Do Something Very Different” – Rivalry & Drama In Arcade Racer ‘New Star GP’

Fasten your seatbelts. Being a fan of sports games can be a tricky business. AAA publishers roll out the same full-price titles year-on-year with fewer improvements and added pay-to-win incentives, all bundled up in a package that is regularly less-than-optimal on Switch. Fortunately, in the darkest of days, the indie scene is there to illuminate…

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Why I love Injustice 2’s story mode

Who would win in a fight? Comics writers know this is what fans argue about, endlessly, and feed those arguments with crossovers and stories like Batman vs. Superman. Usually it’s naff stuff where characters just biff each other for a bit and then abruptly form a getalong gang as if they weren’t battering each others’…

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