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Unity rejects proposed takeover by AppLovin The mobile tech company had offered $17.54 billion to buy the engine developer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Engine creatorUnityhas officially rejected a takeover offer by AppLovin. The tech firm, known for its mobile marketing and analytics platforms like AppDiscovery and SparkLabs, hadpreviously offered$17.54 billion to buy the well-known software developer, whose engine has powered games like Kerbal Space Program and Pillars of Eternity....

Why Nuclear Throne is still the best roguelike around Irradiated, bloodied, and incredibly satisfying. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In an instant, it all comes back. The immediate sense of danger. The strategy, the weapons, remembering to grab a grenade launcher for the 2-1 bonus round and remembering to avoid opening the gates in 3-2 and 5-2 to keep them safe for the eventual loop....

Yakuza 0’s hostess club made me a manager with a heart Cabaret Club Czar could be a whole standalone game. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The Yakuza series is part Japanese organised crime drama RPG, and part slice-of-life about helping kids win the claw game at an arcade, teaching novice dominatrixes about self confidence, and writing the perfect postcard to a radio show....

Cosmic horror abounds in Doom 2 mod Divine Frequency Shades of System Shock, Bloodborne, and the upcoming Scorn. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Doom 2 mod Divine Frequency speaks of wonderful horrors to my subconscious, delivering a demo level that smacks with the kind of cosmic horror dreamscape I’m always looking for. Creator TheNewGenghisKhan has laid out an enticing nightmare world that’s threatening to give me the next hit of my drug of choice, and it seems like they’re drawing from the same well of nightmare metal albums and cosmic horror that the original Doom gamesand later ilkdraw from....

How ’90s interior design software laid the foundation for today’s life sims The unsung influence of 3D home design programs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In 1994, my mom, a working interior designer, decided to jump on the home computing bandwagon and get3D Home Architect. The Broderbund program was part of an awkward, curious wave ofcomputer-aided design (CAD) software adapted for the burgeoning home market—the average joe looking to redecorate and remodel in an exciting new digital world....

Soccer Story is a fantastical RPG about playing that beautiful game I don’t think they’re going to localize it as Football Story for the other 7 billion of you, though. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Here’s a whimsically appealing game: Soccer Story, an “adventure RPG” fromNot TonightandNot Tonight 2developers PanicBarn and publisher No More Robots. In a world where Soccer has become illegal and everywhere to play soccer has been shut down, Soccer Story is about one person and their magical soccer ball, which has chosen them to be the Savior of Soccer....

Squirrel with a Gun is a game about exactly what it sounds like “It is not easy, but it’s fun, to be a squirrel with a gun.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Hello. Squirrel with a Gun is a game that’s coming to video game platform Steam, and it is about a squirrel with a gun. Not a squirrel sized gun, mind you, but like a regular person-scale weapon that it carries around and can use to rob people, solve puzzles, and apparently fight shadowy men in black-style government agents....