Harold Halibut, the game about making friends while trapped in a giant spaceship stranded at the bottom of an alien ocean, now has a demo on Steam

Harold Halibut, the game about making friends while trapped in a giant spaceship stranded at the bottom of an alien ocean, now has a demo on Steam

Harold Halibut is one of the more intriguing videogame ideas I’ve seen in a while. It’s “a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean,” which is interesting in its own right. But it also employs a stop-motion visual style reminiscent of games like The Neverhood or…

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US: Nintendo download for 23rd January 2020

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition– A magical realist adventure game in five acts, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition features a haunting electronic score and a suite of hymns and bluegrass standards. Rendered in a striking visual style that draws as much…

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Path of Exile 2 player willingly deletes level 100 character to become world first martyr, buffing everyone in the game: ‘That was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a videogame in a very long time’

Late last week, one of the highest level Path of Exile 2 players found something they’ve never seen before: a mysterious chamber in an empty room. Grinding Gear Games added a lot of new stuff in the recent Return of the Ancients update, like hidden rooms and powerful secret items, but it took one courageous…

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Every videogame showcase is a PC gaming show now

Jody Macgregor, Weekend/AU Editor (Image credit: Future) This week: Between obsessing over the trailers for Mandrake and Innkeep, I’ve been trying to finish Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. And failing. I was watching the Frosty Games Fest, a showcase of upcoming games from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand—where it’s currently cold as balls, hence the “Frosty”…

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