When I start playing Turnip Mountain during Steam Next Fest I’m an uncoordinated mess, my fingers clacking the triggers on my controller out of time as I jerk the turnip with arms (you know as much as I do) that I’m controlling. Yet, by the end of my time playing, I’m in sync. The controller…

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Head of Battlefield Vince Zampella has given his opinion on the creation of the Call of Duty franchise, stating the series only exists “because EA were dicks”. Read more

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A decade ago this month, the fifth and final episode of Life Is Strange was released, and avid players like myself — who had been hanging on the story’s every twist and turn for nine months — were faced with a terrible choice: Save our beautiful hometown in the Pacific Northwest (and its many inhabitants),…

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