Can Your Animals Die in Stardew Valley?

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Stardew Valley – one of my all time favorite video games. It’s like relaxation in digital form. If you were a Harvest Moon fan from the golden years of that franchise SV is probably about as close to perfection as you can get. For even those players who haven’t been gaming that long, this is …

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Unqualified Experts #20: Is Early Access Good or Bad for Gaming?

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There are both pros and cons to early access programs, as well as all the varying versions of this (Alpha early access, Beta release, eternal content addition, etc.). Are they greedy money grabs that are damaging the gaming world permanently and bringing about a new normal that no one wants (like when pizza delivery places …

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Deadly Days Video Game Review: Tips, Tricks, & Strategies

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Deadly Days is considered a rogue-like video game, one that takes place not in the dungeon crawling fantasy realms of a Dungeons & Dragons type world but in the stylized pixelated world of a zombie apocalypse. There are few settings more appropriate for a recurring “shoot ’em up” map exploration like rogue-like games promise, and …

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11 Awesome Indie Games You Missed on Steam

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Shane has earned a bit of a well deserved reputation for finding really unique, awesome, and unusual independent video games on Steam. This leads to an incredibly eclectic collection of games and not even the remotest pattern during streaming. On the plus side, and one of the reasons that Shane is such a fan of …

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