Category: video games
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The Witness Giveaway
The Witness was one of my favorite games to play last year, and I’d like to start giving away extra Steam keys I end up with. This is not at all in collaboration with Thekla, Inc, I just have an extra Steam key to give away. Enter on this page, where there will be other…
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Valve’s War on “Fake Games”
Nathan Grayson: Valve is about to overhaul Steam in order to ensure that good games are visible and lazily developed games created for the purpose of making a quick buck—which Valve apparently calls “fake games”—sink beneath a sea of algorithms. I’m not sure how this works, Valve have gone from saying that they want to take…
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Thimbleweed Park Available
Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island creators Gary Winnick and Ron Gilbert have just put out a new adventure game, Thimbleweed Park. It’s a mystery set in 1987 featuring five new weirdos to do adventure with, and has full controller support. I’m on-board, but Ron Gilbert doesn’t need much to sell me on his work. Thimbleweed Park…
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Homefront: The Developing Revolution
Patrick Klepek interviewed the developers of Homefront: The Revolution who are surprisingly still updating the game almost a year after it was released. This comes as a shock because it was received poorly by both the critics, and while it found some audience, most of the gaming public as well. I’m mostly interested in the…
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The Orange Embarassment Doesn’t Even Know How to Order a Wiretap
This is the immediate aftermath of Trump’s insane lie about President Obama wiretapping him during the campaign according to a New York Times article by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman: That led to a succession of frantic staff conference calls, including one consultation with the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, as staff members…