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N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer-focused follow-up to one of the best platformers on PC: 'we don't think anyone else on this planet is as crazy about 2D platformers as we are'

More than a decade after the release of one of the best action platformers ever made, N Plus Infinity Times Two is the next ninja parkour movement sim from Canada's Metanet Software. If you love N++ I know what you're probably thinking: decade old or not, that game has over 4,000 levels, and it got a massive free expan...

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Crossfire was the most surprising game reveal I've attended in years

There's a good chance you haven't heard of That's No Moon. The Los Angeles-based studio is one of many that cropped up amidst the Covid-fueled videogames gold rush of the early 2020s, and up until now it's been working in total silence. The South Korean publisher backing the startup, Smilegate, is known for free-to-pla...

3 days ago πŸ‘ 9
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Best CS2 Settings for FPS and Competitive Play

When it comes to competitive games like Counter-Strike 2, the visual quality is not the top priority. If you're trying to become a pro, then you won't need to worry about shiny-looking textures or sharply rendered visuals. It's only frames (FPS) that matter the most in competitive games like this.

4 days ago πŸ‘ 10
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Which gaming clip just won $500? Check out the best videos of May, featuring nukes in Minecraft, eternal drifts in Forza Horizon 6, and a dragon-riding giant in Skyrim

We're on a mission to collect the internet's best gaming videosβ€”and frankly, you're making it easy for us. In May you sent in tons of great clips featuring frenetic battles in shooters like Counter-Strike 2, Marathon, and Battlefield 6. But you also sent us a motherload of comedy clips, showing off sandbox hijinks in g...

5 days ago πŸ‘ 14
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This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast

Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I've argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches and 1440p is too...

1 week ago πŸ‘ 8
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Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders

With this week's theatrical release of A24's The Backrooms adaptation, I was expecting an avalanche of new Backrooms-themed videogames to appear on Steam. Surprisingly, the number is quite modest: a mere four!Surely you've noticed that Backrooms games have been releasing at a steady clip on Steam for years now. When I...

1 week ago πŸ‘ 14
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Counter-Strike is good for personal development, but don't let me tell you, listen to this bona fide Buddhist monk with a beast RTX 4090 rig instead

I play Counter-Strike 2 most nights, and I can't say I've found anything particularly Zen about trying to clutch a 1v4 after my teammate on A-site dies to his own molotov and proceeds to shout expletives in Russian while I try to listen to enemy footsteps. But who am I to say? Not a Buddhist, that's for sureβ€”and certai...

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Counter-Strike's co-creator isn't worried about low player counts: "Those people are never going to play your game."

It's difficult to avoid the ongoing discourse surrounding concurrent player numbers on Steam. Hell, we're guilty of it ourselves. It's understandable why so many people are so fixated on this metric; it's one of the only numerical ways to identify how successful a game launch has been, after all. For indie developer Mi...

1 week ago πŸ‘ 10
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Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II review

In my approximation, diminishing returns start for gaming headsets after around the $100-$150 mark. That's to say the value per dollar starts to go down the higher up you go. With budget gaming headsets only getting better, it becomes harder and harder to justify spending $300+. And with the Stealth Pro II, you can tel...

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