Category: video games
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Donut County is Good & Available Now
Ben Esposito made a game called Donut County about being a hole that drags other stuff into it. There are also characters, like BK who is a racoon and kind of a dick. Donut County’s good so far, but I hear it is pretty short. Also I keep thinking it’s Donut Country, which should be…
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Zachtronics’ EXAPUNKS in Early Access
The latest programmo-puzzler from Zachtronics, EXAPUNKS, is available in Steam’s Early Access home for wayward and incomplete games. This is another game in the style of TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O, with this one focusing more on explicitly hacking the system, man. There’s something wonderful about Zachtronics’ programming games. Each one has a special theme, and…
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Windows Pretendulation Is Bad Even When Valve Does It
Valve’s Pierre-Loup A. Griffais announced that they’re including their brand new fork of the WINE Windows pretendulator in a new beta product for Steam. They call it Proton. WINE is an open-source Windows API emulation layer that lets Linux users play Windows games without rebooting into Windows. I call this process “pretendulation” because it isn’t emulating…
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Reinstall Half-life 2 & The Episodes Isn’t a Band in Cleveland
It’s a requirement for playing Jazztronauts, a mod for Garry’s Mod. Yes, you’ve read that correctly. You have to reinstall a bunch of old Source-engine games and get this weird ass $10 sandbox thing called Garry’s Mod to play Jazztronauts. You’re also going to need to read these instructions to get the game going. It’s…
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Heather Alexandra on What It Means To Buy A Video Game
Highly recommended reading from Heather Alexandra : …the intersection of work and labor at play when we buy games also means that there’s a lot more going on. Being a responsible game player requires understanding the dynamics at play.