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I don't know about the early hours, but I'm seeing a fairly even mix. Apparently it can depend where you recruit them from--there's one spot that only shows you pawns who are men, and another that's only women.

Sovereign Syndicate. It's a singleplayer steampunk RPG, came out in January. I wish more people would play it! I like Solium Infernum too, the strategy game set in Hell. (It's a remake, but one that's different enough to feel like a new game.)

SkyUI is great and so is Live Another Life, as mentioned upthread. The Skyrim mod that keeps me going back to it is Legacy of the Dragonborn, which makes you curator of a museum you can store items in. All the artifacts that seem too important to sell but not useful enough to use get a home, and...

I think, just like we saw happen with "walking simulator", once the creators of the games in question latch onto a genre name it loses its insulting connotation. I see enough devs call their retro FPSes boomer shooters now that I'm on board with it.

Rich did the heavy lifting but I had his back on that one. I don't play a lot of Kojima games but I loved Death Stranding. As for Steam user reviews, I've somehow written 22 of them? Most recently for Mr. Saitou.

You may also need to launch the game from Vortex. There should be a play symbol next to the game's cover art in the top left of the Vortex window.

This is exactly it, same as previous years. As the introduction in the linked article explains, "Once we choose the games, we assign each an award category to fit it. This is why the categories are slightly different each year."

Baldur's Gate 3 has a couple of displacer beasts, but not a single blink dog.

I ask the PCG staff a regular Weekend Question and post the answers on the site. If you'd like to throw in an answer here, I'll squeeze the best into the finished article! This week's question is: Which multiplayer shooter had the best bots? There are bad bots, who ruin matches of Team...

I ask the PCG staff a regular Weekend Question and post the answers on the site. If you'd like to throw in an answer here, I'll squeeze the best into the finished article! This week's question is: What's a weird quirk your PC has? "I love the idea of PCs as distinct from consoles in the sense...

I ask the PCG staff a regular Weekend Question and post the answers on the site. If you'd like to throw in an answer here, I'll squeeze the best into the finished article! This week's question is: What's the best summon you ever summoned to help out in an RPG? If you were having trouble with...

Fine, how about these? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592540/Loretta/ Noirish psychological thriller point-and-click where you cover up a murder. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1669750/AHOD_All_Hands_on_Deck/ Naval combat deckbuilder whose name is a pun I only just got...

More from Steam Next Fest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1764280/Dungeons_of_the_Amber_Griffin/ First-person grid-based dungeon crawler based on Slavic mythology. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1649740/Hunt_the_Night/ Top-down pixel art soulslike with a Castlevania vibe...

I ask the PCG staff a regular Weekend Question and post the answers on the site. If you'd like to throw in an answer here, I'll squeeze the best into the finished article! This week's question is: How much time do you spend on MMO character fashion? Do you care how your character's clothes...

I ask the PCG staff a regular Weekend Question and post the answers on the site. If you'd like to throw in an answer here, I'll squeeze the best into the finished article! This week's question is: Do you check how long games take to finish before you play them? Howlongtobeat.com will tell you...