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Steam is testing out a redesigned storefront that makes it easier to find games you'll like

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 10:52:16

You have to join the Steam Client Beta if you want to try out the streamlined design now. As if we needed more ways to grow our Steam libraries with games we'll never finish or even play. Now, Steam is experimenting with a redesigned storefront menu as part of its latest beta update to help sell more games. Instead of being overwhelmed with text links and cluttered menu buttons in the current version, Steam's store page remodel combines everything into a more polished and organized menu at the

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Premier League Summer Series: Stream Man United vs. West Ham From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 05:00:06

The second match of this year's Premier League Summer Series sees Man United and West Ham face off, with both sides set to field new signings as they look to move on from disappointing campaigns last term. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Having flirted with the wrong end of the EPL table last season, Ruben Amorim has made two major signings a

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Extreme sports, an FPS from former Blizzard devs and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:00:07

Welcome to our weekly roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. There have been quite a few high-profile arrivals this week, as well as others that have left early access and or arrived on more platforms. I have a long flight this weekend and I'm a little torn over what to play while I'm in the air. I have my Switch 2, Steam Deck and Playdate with me (excessive, I know). As such, there are many ways I can go here. I haven't yet burrowed my way into Donkey Kong Bananza, so that's a str

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If you have 90 minutes to spare, play the cyberpunk horror game s.p.l.i.t

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 00:00:33

s.p.l.i.t is the most badass typing game I’ve ever played. It’s actually more of a hacking simulator, cyberpunk thriller and puzzle experience than a typing game, but its core loop is bookended by sequences of high-intensity letter pecking with gruesome consequences — think Mavis Beacon as designed by Ted Kaczynski — and the final scenes have a way of searing themselves into your psyche. Not to mention, the whole thing takes place on a keyboard, no mouse or gamepad. So I guess it’s technically o

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Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game

theverge.com Jackson Ryan 2025-12-29 00:00:00

When new employees start at Weta Workshop, they’re herded into a meeting room with a long, unassuming conference table. On the walls, behind panes of glass and in between statues, swords, and masks, are five Oscars. Four of them were awarded to the studio for its efforts on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films. New hires are offered a chance to hold one of those Oscars, but there’s a catch: handling the golden statuette marks you with a curse, preventing you from ever winning one yourself

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The Drifter is a good old-fashioned thriller

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-29 02:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Point-and-click adventure games often tell silly, lighthearted stories. For me, the mishaps of the pirate Guybrush Threepwood in the Monkey Island series come to mind. The nature of the genre — wandering around, talking to people, and trying to solve puzzles — lends itself well to humor, as every interaction with a person or object offers an opportunity for a joke. The Drifter

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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:46:44

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection Introduction This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK) and on Windows. They can also be played on the web, as Java or Javascript applets. 2023-09-20: I'm sorry to say that I'm no longer going to be able to build the MacOS version of these puzzles. My Mac was very old and had been struggling for a while; it's now stopped working, and I don't intend to buy a

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Wolfenstein TV Series in the Works at Amazon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 04:29:29

After a successful first season of the Fallout series, Amazon MGM Studios will adapt another video game. Interestingly enough, this franchise has a story that's similar to the one in Amazon's first popular TV series, The Man in the High Castle. Amazon will begin work on adapting the video game Wolfenstein, according to a report from Variety on Friday. There are few details about the show's plot available other than the tagline "The story of killing Nazis is evergreen." The showrunner of the se

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‘Invincible Vs.’ Will Occupy Its Own Unique Corner of the ‘Invincible’ Universe

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-29 18:30:35

After turning The Walking Dead into a multimedia empire, Robert Kirkman has been hard at work doing the same for Invincible. First there were, of course, the comics. Then the awesome Prime Video animated show. There have long been talks of a potential live-action movie. And, next year, the franchise’s first full-fledged video game is coming, called Invincible Vs. And while little is known about the game, set for release in 2026, Kirkman spoke to press about it at San Diego Comic-Con. What we pr

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Invincible Vs Adds Fan-Favorite Battle Beast, and He's Not Holding Back

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 17:11:44

Invincible Vs is an upcoming tag-team fighting game revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, based on Robert Kirkman's Invincible comic and show. As San Diego Comic-Con is underway, it made sense for a new character to be revealed, and this one is quite the fighter. Battle Beast is the latest addition to the Invincible Vs roster. The big, blue barbarian cat is quite the brute with his mace. He does some brutal damage, causing blood to splatter everywhere. His super combo exemplifies his vio

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Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-30 00:27:51

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose work explores gay history and culture. “Just found out via Bluesky.” Itch.io is deindexing, or removing from its searc

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Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 04:00:51

C:\ArsGames We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, from modern to ancient and all points in between. With that in mind, we've partnered with the folks at GOG.com to create a store page featuring a hand-curated list of some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. At the end of every month, we'll rotate a couple of titles off the list and add a few new ones; altogether, we have a list of about 50 games to set in front of you. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one, wh

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Netflix Launches a Surprise 'Happy Gilmore' Game Alongside the New Film

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 08:00:08

It's all in the hips -- err, rather, it's all in the fingers -- in Happy Gilmore: Golf Mayhem '98 Demo, a new Netflix game based on the Adam Sandler film. The streaming giant launched the surprise game the same day it released Happy Gilmore 2, a sequel to the classic '90s film. The game is a chaotic trip down memory lane, just the way Happy would have wanted. "I don't want a piece of you. I want the whole thing." Netflix Anyone with a Netflix subscription (which start at $8 a month) can play t

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Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Promit 2025-12-30 02:26:37

This is Part 1 of a series examining techniques used in game graphics and how those techniques fail to deliver a visually appealing end result. See Part 0 for a more thorough explanation of the idea behind it. High dynamic range. First experienced by most consumers in late 2005, with Valve’s Half Life 2: Lost Coast demo. Largely faked at the time due to technical limitations, but it laid the groundwork for something we take for granted in nearly every blockbuster title. The contemporaneous revi

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Steam, Itch.io are pulling 'porn' games. critics say it's a slippery slope

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-30 12:27:51

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose work explores gay history and culture. “Just found out via Bluesky.” Itch.io is deindexing, or removing from its searc

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Netflix’s push into tie-in games now includes two weird Happy Gilmore titles

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-12-30 14:00:00

Netflix seems to have finally settled on something resembling a strategy for its gaming efforts, and one of the key pillars is games tied to its shows and movies. That’s how we got the likes of Squid Game: Unleashed and Black Mirror’s Thronglets. Now, as Happy Gilmore 2 hits the streaming service, it’s accompanied by a pair of games that show just how promotional Netflix can be. The first game is actually pretty fun, though it’s not really a whole game. It’s called Happy Gilmore: Golf Mayhem ’9

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Steam, Itch.io Are Pulling 'Porn' Games. Critics Say It's a Slippery Slope

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-30 18:27:51

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose work explores gay history and culture. “Just found out via Bluesky.” Itch.io is deindexing, or removing from its searc

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Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Promit 2025-12-31 20:26:37

This is Part 1 of a series examining techniques used in game graphics and how those techniques fail to deliver a visually appealing end result. See Part 0 for a more thorough explanation of the idea behind it. High dynamic range. First experienced by most consumers in late 2005, with Valve’s Half Life 2: Lost Coast demo. Largely faked at the time due to technical limitations, but it laid the groundwork for something we take for granted in nearly every blockbuster title. The contemporaneous revi

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Apple TV+: MLS commissioner shares confusing Season Pass viewership numbers

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-31 14:05:43

Apple tends to be pretty tight-lipped when it comes to viewership data. But in a midseason press conference earlier today, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber offered a rare (but puzzling) update on how MLS Season Pass has been performing in 2025. According to Garber (via Sports Business Journal), matches are averaging 120,000 unique viewers per game, a figure he said represents a 50% increase compared to last year. Interestingly, he said the jump is not necessarily due to the Apple TV

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Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-31 21:52:42

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose work explores gay history and culture. “Just found out via Bluesky.” Itch.io is deindexing, or removing from its searc

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Apple’s New Game Overlay in macOS 26 Could be So Much More

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-01 18:30:17

Gaming on Mac has come a long way, but if people are going to take it seriously—like, really seriously—Apple still has some work to do. The new public beta for macOS 26 and its gaming updates won’t convince the naysayers, but I see it as the tipping point, and all Apple needs to do is relax for once and let the players take control. For macOS 26, Apple added a new Game Overlay and Games app. The former acts as an easy way to adjust brightness, volume, or call friends while in-game. It also has

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The Outer Worlds 2 Walks Back $80 Price, Now Launching at $70

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 17:24:40

The Outer Worlds 2 from Obsidian Entertainment was set to be the third game to follow the trend started by Mario Kart World of having a launch price of $80. Instead, it's another game that saw a price reduction after the initial announcement. Last month, The Outer Worlds 2 was one of the big titles shown at the Xbox Games Showcase and even had its own dedicated show after the event. Obisidan revealed the release date of Oct. 29 and the hefty price tag of $80, but the developer has since changed

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I Tried iOS 26 for a Month. These 3 Features Stand Out Most

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 03:09:20

Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24, more than a month after the company announced the next iOS version at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. That means developers and public beta testers can try the upcoming iPhone features before others get them this fall. And this is an important iOS version for Apple. According to Bloomberg, some Apple investors are frustrated with the company's delay in artificial intelligence features. Apple is also facing an antitrust laws

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Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 09:40:54

Indie game clearinghouse itch.io is the latest online gaming storefront to take action to remove or limit the availability of some adult content, bowing to pressure from payment processors spurred by an Australian grassroots group's campaign against certain sexualized content. Wednesday night, itch.io creators and users began noticing that many adult-oriented games and content were no longer appearing in search results on the platform. Other creators reported that their adult-focused titles had

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No, of Course You Can’t Actually Play the New Lego Game Boy

wired.com Verity Burns 2026-01-02 05:31:18

Back in January, as the world awaited news on the Switch 2, Lego jumped in and teased a collaboration with Nintendo that would bring the classic Game Boy console back to life in brick form. Now it’s here—and it looks even better than we expected. But the promo video for launch has caused a fair bit of confusion as to whether you can actually play it. The video is a remake of part of the original Game Boy commercial from 1989. As the included brick-built game cartridges are placed into the GameP

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The biggest changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 26

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-02 09:17:44

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple recently announced iOS 26, the next major software update for iPhones, and it’s packed with a whole bunch of new features. The biggest change is a new design, but there are lots of smaller improvements and additions as well that could make a difference in how you use your iPhone every day. If you want to kick the tires before the update’s wider release this fall, you ca

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Hacker sneaks infostealer malware into early access Steam game

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-02 14:49:47

A threat actor called EncryptHub has compromised a game on Steam to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users downloading the title. A few days ago, the hacker (also tracked as Larva-208), injected malicious binaries into the Chemia game files hosted on Steam. Chemia is a survival crafting game from developer ‘Aether Forge Studios,’ which is currently offered as early access on Steam but has no public release date. Chemia on Steam Source: BleepingComputer titled Chemia , also t

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How Samsung's Galaxy AI Boosts Gaming Performance

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 09:39:00

You're just one swipe from clearing the final round or beating your personal best in the game you've been grinding through for the past three months. But at the pivotal moment, the frame stutters and a push alert hijacks your screen. Just like that, your six-month streak ends -- not with a bang or a whimper, but with a cheerful notification chime about your upcoming dental appointment. Mobile gaming has become serious business, and smartphones are now expected to perform like full-fledged gamin

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Killing Floor 3 Review: Two Bloody Steps Forward, One Step Back

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 10:00:00

Killing Floor 3 is a case study in contradictions, positively iterating on the best aspects from the series' past while introducing confusing features that would make more sense in another game. Put simply, the new changes make Killing Floor 3 a AA-feeling horde shooter with a battle pass. It's a pick-up-and-play arcade game with a loadout system. But most bafflingly of all, the game introduces a complex, grindy weapon modding system even though there's a rather limited arsenal to stuff all tho

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The Best Co-op Games to Play With Your Friends in Every Scenario

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 12:01:00

Despite how gaming has changed over the years, one thing remains the same -- people love playing games together. Whether you're solving a puzzle, hunting monsters or escaping Hell, it's better with a friend (or three). It should come as no surprise that games like Split Fiction and It Takes Two from Hazelight Studios, which focus on cooperative play, were critical successes. Some of my best memories are marathon gaming sessions with friends, squished together on a couch or logging in online fro

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Steam is testing out a redesigned storefront that makes it easier to find games you'll like

Premier League Summer Series: Stream Man United vs. West Ham From Anywhere

Extreme sports, an FPS from former Blizzard devs and other new indie games worth checking out

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Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game

The Drifter is a good old-fashioned thriller

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Invincible Vs Adds Fan-Favorite Battle Beast, and He's Not Holding Back

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Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter

Netflix Launches a Surprise 'Happy Gilmore' Game Alongside the New Film

Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

Steam, Itch.io are pulling 'porn' games. critics say it's a slippery slope

Netflix’s push into tie-in games now includes two weird Happy Gilmore titles

Steam, Itch.io Are Pulling 'Porn' Games. Critics Say It's a Slippery Slope

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I Tried iOS 26 for a Month. These 3 Features Stand Out Most

Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

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The biggest changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 26

Hacker sneaks infostealer malware into early access Steam game

How Samsung's Galaxy AI Boosts Gaming Performance

Killing Floor 3 Review: Two Bloody Steps Forward, One Step Back

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