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[Link] How ‘Vampire Survivors’ Went From Obscurity to 27,000 People Playing at Once
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
There are, as of this writing, more than 27,000 people playing a $3 game on Steam called Vampire Survivors. That’s more than games like The Elder Scrolls Online, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Phasmophobia, and just below God of War and The Witcher 3.
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[Link] Kainga is a city-building game that’s also a deadly roguelike
Read: 15/11/2021 www.pcgamesn.com
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is a city builder. It’s also a roguelike. You build up a civilisation in an ancient world full of mysterious monsters and enemies, you probably die, and you take what you’ve learned from the process into a new run.
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[Link] Looks like Steam is getting a QR code login option
Read: 29/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A recent update to Steam's code includes signs of an upcoming new login method: Scanning a QR code with the Steam mobile app. That's according to a tweet by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik.
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[Link] Valve Says Opening a Steam Deck Could Kill You
Read: 7/10/2021 www.vice.com
Valve even goes so far as to say that opening a Steam Deck could lead to your death. “Opening up [the Steam Deck] and replacing parts might mess things up, like, profoundly.
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[Link] Steam Achievement names can be upsettingly long, Cookie Clicker discovers
Read: 8/9/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Achievement names often feel like an afterthought. Usually forgettable, at best a mildly funny pun beeping onto your screen as an award for collecting 15 trinkets.
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[Link] Sega forces Yakuza: Like a Dragon off of SteamDB over piracy fears
Read: 7/4/2021 www.pcgamer.com
The Steam Database, or SteamDB, is a third-party tool that provides all sorts of information about games on Steam, from developer info and player numbers to release dates and modification times, update history, and configuration details.