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Photo: ValveValve has announced a new white and gray variant of its uber-popular portable PC device, the Steam Deck. This upcoming version of the handheld PC will cost $680 and will go on sale on November 18. The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: June 2023 EditionWe’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating: Valve’s Steam Deck is an awesome piece of hardware. It’s the best and most affordable handheld PC on the market, and since launching in 2022 it’s quickly inspired imitators and changed the way people play games. But the original Steam Deck only came in one…

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Tetris was and is a global phenomenon that remains pick-up-and-play perfection to this day, and its history is lovingly chronicled in Digital Eclipse’s latest: Tetris Forever. It charts the franchise’s entire history, from the brainchild of Alexey Pajitnov to its popularity explosion as a Game Boy pack-in and beyond. A far cry from the dramatic sensationalism of the 2023 Tetris movie, this is a fascinating journey through a transformative period in the industry we all love. Tetris Forever follows The Making of Karateka and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story as the third entry in the developer’s Gold Master series. This…

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Things we missed last week: The Vs series game The Quest of Ki (from Namco) in the Archives. And nothing else that wasn’t covered on RFN 900. It’s the curse of the Horizon series to get completely overshadowed by something huge coming out in its release window. The original launched right before Breath of the Wild, the sequel right before Elden Ring (look, I didn’t say these were GOOD games, just big ones), and the gratuitous remaster of the original launched the same week as the new Dragon Age. So it goes this week, as Lego Horizon Adventures gets its…

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The only thing that could even attempt to compete with Baldur’s Gate 3 for me would be a game that doesn’t exist. But I can imagine what it would look like with this gallery of Elden Ring screenshots taken from a top-down perspective as if they were environments in a CRPG spin-off.Reddit user Fanica98 zoomed way out with a camera mod at the lowest FOV possible to give Elden Ring’s world a pseudo-isometric look. I’ve messed with camera tools before but I’ve never thought about trying to recreate this perspective. Apparently, it’s a little fussy to achieve.”The game is highly…

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