Reminder: This Week Is Your Last Chance To Play Pac-Man 99 Online

S&box makes nearly $1 million on launch day, and yes there are problems but that’s okay: ‘We love it when things break because then we get to fix them’

It’s the day after the release of S&box, the successor to the legendary sandbox game Garry’s Mod: Reviews are mixed, complaints are plentiful, player numbers are a fraction of Garry’s Mod, and Facepunch Studios says in a post-release update that everything is going “pretty much exactly as expected.” “The backend went down once or twice….

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An $8 cooperative horror game is rocketing up Steam’s top sellers list: ‘Never occurred to me Lethal Company was missing physics until I played this’

‘Lethal Company clone’ is one of the three remaining genres that now encompass the entirety of Steam, the other two being ‘Vampire Survivors clone’ and ‘hentai’. Most of these games briefly clog up the new releases tab before being replaced by yet more cooperative, autobattling horror porn (the first person who develops that game will…

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Overwatch 2 director apologizes for the way self-healing heroes in Season 9 was announced: ‘It was a mistake to talk about this lone change out of context’

Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller has apologized for last week’s announcement of upcoming changes that will grant every tank and DPS hero a self-healing ability, saying that there’s a whole host of changes coming to the game in season 9 and talking about this one out of context “was a mistake.” The upcoming addition…

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Even after Ubisoft confirmed ‘gaming’s worst-kept secret’ of an Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake, it somehow manages to leak another trailer before the reveal

Sometimes you just gotta roll with the punches and, credit where it’s due, Ubisoft eventually leaned into the fact that its Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake became, in the publisher’s own words, “the worst-kept secret in gaming.” The remake’s existence was revealed ahead of time by countless leaks: everything from age rating boards to anonymous…

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