As is now traditional (these features have been going for three years now!), these games are selected at random from the hundreds of emails I’ve received after appealing for suggestions. Unless I say otherwise, I’ve not played the games, and as such can’t vouch for them, not least because most have yet to be released.

You got Deck Builder, so that’s like, one in ten. Good job embarrassing yourself.

I mean, no insult but you definitely didn’t get Slay the Spire, it’s one of the greatest games made in the last decade, and that’s not overstatement or hyperbole. It’s notable too that a lot of non-gamers or casual gamers got it, whereas a handful of “real gamers” totally did not - not at all saying you’re the latter…

Why are they called Steamed Decks when they are obviously grilled?

You left off “don’t get your Steam Deck wet” and “don’t feed it after midnight.”

You can still buy 52 of them, set the wallpaper of each to a different card and play Solitaire.

Goddammit, now you’ve gone and ruined my summer plans to build a deck out of Steam Decks so I could have a barbeque of Steamed Decks while my family plays Switch on the Deck. Now what am I supposed to do?

There are times when being 40+ years old certainly pays off, and this is one of them. I don’t care about Pokimane, her streams, how she makes her money, her “healthy” products or her half-assed apologies. I also don’t care about the people that were upset by her comments, the people that complain about the price of…

I think it’s kinda like bad films exist and have for a while, but Uwe Boll made an entire career out of doing so and somehow this made his films worth reporting on. Game Mill is the unifying factor in this case.

I’d argue this is more about the publisher more than anything. You’re right that the industry has a history of cash grab licensed games, but games like this being released back to back, from the same publisher does warrant extra scrutiny.

Like who else besides the publisher are we meant to blame?

It’s an online store, but without DRM and also you can get Offline installers for all the games you buy so you can save them and don’t have to be online when you install them in the future.

You could just have used the gog version for steam deck, no need to buy the steam version.

Funny you think Kotaku will be up in a year.

I think in Illinois (or maybe just in Chicago), bars are required by law to clean their lines every two weeks. I’ve had two places where this obviously wasn’t happening, but two bad experiences in twenty years is pretty good. Also, as a general rule, brewpubs tend to keep their lines clean, because they brew the beer…

people calling others awful for no good reason are worse

At least in my house my consoles function as media devices as well, so if someone wants to watch the TV they have to use the console, which something like the Portal, that requires the console to be free 1000% useless.

Expecting a tech reviewer to understand a tiny bit about how their network works isn’t a big ask.

“Using Portal also won’t “free up” the console so one person can play on TV while the other plays on handheld.”

Nah, Dear Esther was the first game to receive that label because all you do is walk around and listen to a narrator.