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Too bad, so sad. I don't see anyone apart from representatives of Silicon Echo lamenting this. They had a scammy business model, produced laughable "games," and now they've been yanked from Steam and essentially put out of business. Some seem to be worried that Valve's more proactive stance...

Simple question: do you support a $15 an hour (or higher) minimum wage? (Aimed at Americans, but if you aren't I'd be curious to hear your perspective anyway.) I also want to know why you have the position you do on this question.

One of the strangest tech stories I've ever heard, and I was around for GamerGate, Aaron Swartz, and the Dread Pirate Roberts. If you are familiar with Bitcoin, then Dogecoin is easy enough to understand: it is a cryptocurrency in the Bitcoin mold, only it was intended as a joke, whereas...

I considered putting this in SciTech but it's more of a gaming device than anything, so it goes here. I got one of these yesterday. It's cool. Here is a picture. Without a size reference, it may be hard to tell just how small it is. It is exactly the size of a Nintendo 3DS XL, so I hope that...

On April 1st, Reddit tried a simple experiment: give the world of Redditors a blank canvas, and let them place pixels, one by one, with a waiting period. This meant no one person could take over the entire canvas, and that people had time to plan their next pixels. Armed with these simple tools...

You may never have heard of Cloudflare, but they are one of the biggest content syndication and load management providers around. They keep sites up and running even in the face of massive amounts of traffic. As such, they are used by companies like Uber and many others. It turns out there was...

In case you haven't heard, grand strategy 4X game Stellaris now has a Star Trek total conversion, called New Horizons. You can read more about it here. But the gist is that it fills the game with dozens of Star Trek races, comes with quite faithful galaxy maps, over 200 ships from the various...

So there is this new Early Access game, ASTRONEER, being touted as a NMS-killer. I have not played No Man's Sky so I can be totally unbiased in that regard! I grabbed ASTRONEER because what the heck, $20 and it looks cute. I died a bunch of times right off the bat because I didn't realize the...

It largely escaped mainstream attention, but over the past couple weeks we have experienced the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Internet history, as a bandwidth throughput of close to 1 terabit per second was brought to bear against French hosting company OVH. This would...

I picked up this little gem a few days ago as it left Early Access. Some have compared it to FTL, but apart from pixel art and being set in space and having space ships, they are really nothing alike. The gameplay is totally different. So, what's a better comparison? It's like XCOM meets Star...

You may not have heard of it, but Hand of Fate is a pretty cool little game. It's been out on Steam for a while and is $25, so we're not talking a $60 game here. The premise is simple: you wander into a mysterious mage's parlor, as he says many have done before you. You will play a card game...

Since the old one got shut down (RIP), here is a new thread for discussing police abuse and brutality in the US, especially as it pertains to the treatment of people of color. Here are a couple of "fun" stories for today. Black kids show up to a public pool to enjoy some fun on a hot day...

This game is out now! Or, if not right now, later today. Either way, you can buy it on Steam, too. Reviews are out and they are all quite positive: RPS IGN PC Gamer Consensus seems to be that it is the most worthy city builder to come along in quite some time. It has a few issues but no...

I don't know if I'll see this but this "trailer" alone is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S4O111GX6Q It comes out January 9th. Looks like fun. This series has had such unlikely popularity.

One or two of you people has a 3DS, don't you? :p I got this on Saturday and have already sunk 8 hours into it. That is pretty unusual for me. The game mechanics would be at home in a Monster Hunter or an Elder Scrolls. It's a straight-up RPG, which a story that usually stays out of the...

I am pimping this Kickstarter, though I have no personal stake in it (other than that I really really want to see it get made.) It looks awesome. It's a 3D space-based RTS in the vein of Homeworld, but it's played from a first-person perspective. It looks badass. It also has an amazing...

The minds behind Total Annihilation and the original Supreme Commander crowdfunded an even more ambitious game: Planetary Annhilation! It was recently "released" as 1.0 though it had actually been available for at least the past year as an early access title. I got in while it was on sale at...

Do you like management sims? Are you insane? Do you like management sims and you're insane? Then you'll love Factorio! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yDZM0diiYc The game is still in alpha but is already quite playable and fun. It feels like an alpha only to the extent the late Minecraft...

Spun off from a discussion "elsewhere," this is a thread for people who a) make music and b) want to make music but don't know where or how to begin. The good news is that if you have a computer--and if you're reading this, you probably do--you can make music without really spending any...

First of all, this game is now available on Steam, discounted to $49.79. I know, that doesn't sound like much of a discount, but bear in mind this contains the original game plus all four of its expansions. If you've never heard of it, Distant Worlds is a pausable real-time 4X grand strategy...