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I will always fear the idle genre but wizard school RPG Abracademia is more enchanting than most, with around 300 spells to learn
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I will always fear the idle genre but wizard school RPG Abracademia is more enchanting than most, with around 300 spells to learn

I'm not sure I can imagine greater horror than that of the "desktop idle sim". My computer's desktop already fills me with confusion and dismay. It's a mixed media moraine of reaction gifs, rogue ebooks, abandoned drafts, and shortcuts for apps I uninstalled years ago. It is like seeing my life's failure reflected in the compound eye of the fly nibbling on my corpse. And now, you would have me run a small widescreen videogame at the bottom of the view? Madness. A small widescreen videogame abou

Cheat Engine now has a Linux version released
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Cheat Engine now has a Linux version released

A popular tool on Windows - Cheat Engine recently gained a Linux version, so you can mess with your games under Linux now too.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Arc Raiders trials - what's on this week
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Arc Raiders trials - what's on this week

Completing Arc Raiders trials is a great way to get some free loot, as well as to show your skill for the rest of Speranza to see.

"Pay the gravity tax": In crushing strategy game Asema, your factories will become a vortex if they grow too vast
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"Pay the gravity tax": In crushing strategy game Asema, your factories will become a vortex if they grow too vast

I like a factory simulation that fervently embraces the basic evilness of factory sims, these games about wrapping a smoking, clanking straitjacket around a realm of organic colours and unsuspecting resource deposits. Or in the case of Asema, around the wonders of the interstellar abyss, and whatever life it contains. "You are old, one of many," goeth the blurb. "There may be an infinite amount of your kind in the cosmos, older than stellar dust. But for you, the only space that matters is the

Stop Killing Games-backed California bill targeting online game shutdowns "isn't going to be an easy thing" to enforce, says the politician behind it
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Stop Killing Games-backed California bill targeting online game shutdowns "isn't going to be an easy thing" to enforce, says the politician behind it

The main politician behind the Californian bill backed by the Stop Killing Games campaign that's currently making its way through the state's legislature has admitted that ensuring it's enforced likely won't be a walk in the park. Still, Assemblymember Chris Ward is hoping that if passed, the bill - which would see publishers shutting down servers for online games forced to provide full refunds or a version of the game players can keep on playing independently of said servers as part of the pro

Bounce 2 is a sequel to an Atari "PONG killer" that I'm pretty sure never existed
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Bounce 2 is a sequel to an Atari "PONG killer" that I'm pretty sure never existed

There's something fishy going on here. Imagine you're me for a moment (sorry, I'm sorry, it'll be over soon). I'm having a browse on Steam, looking for anything a bit different, when you see a vibrant, CRT-interlacing ridden Atari-esque looking game called Bounce 2. I click on, and discover it's a sequel to a 1983 Atari 2600 game called Bounce that was designed to be a PONG killer, only to release during the infamous video game crash. Except I think none of this is true! Well, apart from the b