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Last Friday, Valve formally announced Deadlock, its new multiplayer shooter that blends third-person action with a MOBA structure. Deadlock's road to its official reveal has been highly unusual, with Valve pretending the game didn't exist for several months, all while inviting thousands of people to play it.
There are few games I enjoy watching the development of as much as Gloomwood. Not only because New Blood Interactive's Thief-inspired immersive sim is one of my most anticipated games, but also because the developers keep adding wonderful little extras that I never would have expected. The most recently announced addition is a wonderful example, with New Blood revealing that Gloomwood is getting cutscenes.
I love a shortform horror game about doing a practical job under impractical conditions, by which I mean I loved David Szymanski's terrifying submarine adventure Iron Lung. The procedure, the claustrophobia, the fact it wrapped up in less than an hour, it's a fantastic example of surgically precise game design (and how to scare the bejesus out of me).
Old timey FPS Classic Marathon Infinity has just landed on Steam, meaning you can now play all three Classic Marathon games via Valve's distribution service for free.
The inevitable return of Borderlands 4 to Steam, following the third game's Epic Store exclusivity, was the cause of some amusement this week. After the announcement of Borderlands 4 at Gamescom, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford received a light ribbing over some, uh, bold predictions he made five years ago about how the Epic Store would kill off Valve's omnipresent distribution service. Now, Pitchford has responded to the mockery (which my mum said you should never do as it's just giving them what they want), lamenting the lack of competition for Steam, and claiming that 'Epic is not pressing their advantage.'
Amazon Games CEO Christoph Hartmann was interviewed by IGN this week, and he said several interesting things. He revealed that the upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO was «still early» in development, and commented on how «the bar is so high» for doing a new Tomb Raider game. But his most startling statement came on the subject of using generative AI in the games industry, leading him to claim that «for games, we don't really have acting».
Steam's review system has been updated to show when the reviewer in question has spent most of their time with a game on a Steam Deck, rather than a desktop PC or laptop. Following the change, if a Steam Deck player posts a review of a game on Steam, a little Steam Deck icon will appear in the top right corner of their review.
You know a deal is good when you have most of the games on it and still covet it regardless. Such is the case with Humble Bundle's 'Decades of Horror' bundle, which will put a horde of 11 Resident Evil games on your PC for less than £25/$35.