Month: January 2025

What is a game? Why do games exist? How should you approach them? How should you perceive and engage with the games you play?

These are some of the questions posed to you in The Beginner’s Guide, a narrative-focused game by Davey Wreden, known for creating The Stanley Parable. Wreden himself is a key part of The Beginner’s Guide. He’s the narrator, directly addressing and guiding you through a curated collection of unreleased games, developed by an individual known as Coda. While doing so, he shares personal anecdotes regarding his relationship to the games and their creator.

On a basic level, The Beginner’s Guide is an interesting insight into the process of video game development. Wreden obviously admires Coda’s work, and is excited to show off …

Control-shift-C-“motherlode.” It’s a series of commands that every Sims player knows, the one that infuses your bank account with precious simoleans for buying the fanciest lamps, laying the plushest carpet, and landscaping with the most impressive of shrubbery. Few games are so defined by their cheat codes, yet if you want to move a digital family into an upscale abode without devoting dozens of hours to building up funds, this code is your ticket to affordable maid service and plush window treatments.

This approach treats The Sims as a dollhouse, a role that The Sims 4 fulfills with some aplomb. If you want to build but prefer not to micromanage the details, the game comes with various prearranged rooms that you can fit together like Tetris pieces, but if you’re devote…

PDP announced a new white variant of its modular Victrix Pro BFG wireless controller for PlayStation. We’re already huge fans of the Victrix Pro BFG, naming it one of our favorite pro controllers available for consoles and PC, and this new model looks to have all the same features as the other Victrix Pro BFG controllers–albeit with a new white color scheme and neon purple accents. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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Two decades after it first launched on GameCube, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting a second life with a remake on Nintendo Switch. The remake doesn’t release until May 23, but you can snag a physical preorder for just $50 (down from $60) at Geek Alliance Come from Sports betting site VPbet . That’s one of the best preorders we’ve seen for the popular upcoming title, and if you’ve yet to reserve a copy, this deal is definitely worth a closer look.

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