By rock and stone, they did it: Dwarf Fortress publisher Kitfox Games and Deep Rock Galactic developer Ghost Ship Studios have managed to convince Valve to add an… Continue reading
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Deep Rock Galactic and Dwarf Fortress call on their fans for a Steam revolution: a new dwarf tag to unite the games under one label
Game genres are a bit of an ossified thing. You’ve got strategy, FPS, RPG, and something called action-adventure for when you don’t actually know where else to categorise… Continue reading
How can one person really make a difference in this world? You might think the key to actioning change is in signing petitions, staging protests, or writing to… Continue reading
Dwarf Fortress’ missing best mode is tantalisingly close to release, just as soon as they nail down how to ‘target toes with your crab pincers’
In the cavernous recesses of my heart I nurture the belief that Dwarf Fortress is the greatest game ever made. And ever since it got its shiny Kitfox-branded… Continue reading
Absurdly rare Team Fortress 2 hat called ‘The Crone’s Dome’ sells for a record-setting $18,000 worth of keys because ‘it’s one of a kind and will not ever be unboxed again’
The single most expensive hat trade in Team Fortress 2’s history went down this week, with one player exchanging goods worth over 10,000 of the game’s crate keys… Continue reading
A fan-made remake of Team Fortress 2 in the Source 2 engine has been cancelled after the ambitious project, three years in the making, ran into a double-whammy… Continue reading
Fan-made Team Fortress 2 remake using the Source 2 engine shuts down for good after receiving a DMCA notice from Valve
Team Fortress: Source 2, an ambitious fan project aiming to rebuild the venerable Team Fortress 2 in the Source 2 engine, has reached the end of the road…. Continue reading
Streets of Rogue 2 promises to mash up Deus Ex and Dwarf Fortress in a chaotic immersive sim 10,000 times bigger than the first game
I am unreasonably excited for Streets of Rogue 2, the follow-up to 2019’s best immersive sim in which you could play a vampire, hacker, gorilla or bartender, which… Continue reading
34 years later, space sim Krellan Commander is back with a 2.0 release that’s sort of FTL meets Dwarf Fortress
At the time of Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander’s release, I was still learning to spell and wrestling with the whole “going to the toilet independently” business,… Continue reading
Dwarf Fortress has endless gameplay possibilites packed into its Fortress mode — and it certainly has plenty of nerdy features and informational tidbits in Legends mode — but Adventure mode… Continue reading