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Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre's latest crime against perfectionists
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Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre's latest crime against perfectionists

I don't much go for PowerWash Simulator-likes, but there is something appealingly unwholesome about a game in which you have to wipe the dust off an entire moon. Using a toothbrush. True, you can upgrade to beefier hoovering equipment in Moon Sweepers by cashing in shipments of lunar dirt, but that strikes me as a dangerous concession to brute mass production thinking – it risks consigning centuries of artisanal knowledge to, well, the dustbin. Take pride in your craft, colleagues! If we

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 3 Tagen
This week in PC games: Run a shady cyberpunk boutique in Probably Stolen, autobattle Viking towns in Northgard Battlegrounds, and trash homophobic robots in Virtue and a Sledgehammer
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This week in PC games: Run a shady cyberpunk boutique in Probably Stolen, autobattle Viking towns in Northgard Battlegrounds, and trash homophobic robots in Virtue and a Sledgehammer

I've been tricked. Deep within the fine print of the Health and Safety and Wild Eldritch Creature Control License Edwin convinced me to apply for is a stipulation that I alternate shifts of Maw care with him. I've unwittingly signed up to cleaning the beast's cage out once a fortnight, bringing you news of upcoming PC games while not hosing down the creature from a distance. Well, as is my regulatory obligation, here are some of the PC games coming out this week that caught my eye while scrubbi

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 3 Tagen
32-year-old "ellipsoid" horror game Ecstatica gets a PC re-release today, showing us an alternative timeline in which polygonal 3D never became dominant
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32-year-old "ellipsoid" horror game Ecstatica gets a PC re-release today, showing us an alternative timeline in which polygonal 3D never became dominant

One of my favourite hobbies is digging up older pieces of gaming tech or software know-how and asking myself: "man, what would the world have been like, if every GPU were made out of Gorgonzola?" Or less silly words to that effect. Nostalgia aside, it's useful to revisit historical alternatives in the face of very rich people who would have us believe that only their trillion-dollar boondoggle is "the" future. The code running 1994 horror game Ecstatica probably isn't going to topple Unreal

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 3 Tagen
Here's 17 upcoming VR games worth keeping eyes on
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Here's 17 upcoming VR games worth keeping eyes on

Got your Steam Frame or any other VR kit and want to follow some interesting upcoming games? Here's some potentials for you that could be good.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux vor 3 Tagen
Mass Effect 5 was named Universe partly because it let players generate alternate timelines based on their choices in previous entries, technical director says
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Mass Effect 5 was named Universe partly because it let players generate alternate timelines based on their choices in previous entries, technical director says

In case you missed it, an internal trailer for the new Mass Effect game which BioWare were working on prior to EA shutting them down hit the net late last week. It offered a peek at what the studio were cooking with this new entry, dubbed Mass Effect Universe. According to its technical director, one of the reasons the game was given that name was that it had a system aimed at letting players form alternate timelines based on their choices in previous Mass Effects. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 3 Tagen
Steam's useful Personal Calendar gets a full release
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Steam's useful Personal Calendar gets a full release

I forgot it was ever a Beta, because Steam's Personal Calendar is actually one of the most useful features they've added to the store recently.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux vor 3 Tagen