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Custom Made: A reflection on my painful desire to look good in video games

I have a crippling desire to look good in video games. It’s an unfathomably stupid impulse, but creating the most beautiful possible avatar in any given game is a habit I regularly give in to. I am certain I am not alone in this. To preface this piece – the two games I really threw…

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The ten greatest video game soundtracks we’d love to hear live

This year at Gamescom, the Video Games Live orchestra performed selected arrangements from the Overwatch original soundtrack. The performance was amazing, its heroic themes accompanied by some of the game’s iconic cinematic shorts. A video game soundtrack played live, particularly by a full orchestra, is something that’s only come into vogue in the last decade…

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Valve releases Issue #5 of their Team Fortress online comic

It’s usually an agonisingly long time between issues for Valve’s ongoing, hysterically funny comic based on Team Fortress 2. Usually released once every six months, Issue #5 has arrived out of nowhere and it’s a doozy.

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Become the Sandvich! I Am Bread meets Team Fortress 2 in delicious new update

Physics puzzler/genuine test of a person’s frustration threshold I Am Bread is back with a brand new update that thrusts our yeasty hero into the world of Valve’s multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2.

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Team Fortress 2‘s Gun Mettle update adds contracts, weapons, maps and more

Valve’s free-to-play shooter Team Fortress 2 has received its latest annual update, called the Gun Mettle update. It arrives this week and will bring a pile of new weapons, three fresh maps, new taunts and a brand new contract system to the game, in addition to a number of tweaks to all eight classes.

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