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  • Dota Underlords, As Told By Steam Reviews

    kotakuinternational

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    Are you someone who still battles in video games by using your fingers to directly input commands, like some kind of barbarian? That’s old hat. Today, auto-battlers are all the rage. Simply buy some guys, arrange said guys, and they (the guys) will do the battling for you. With Dota Underlords, Valve rushed to capitalise…

  • I Don’t Know Where To Put My Heroes

    Zack Zwiezen

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    DOTA Underlords is Valve’s stab at the auto-battler genre. In Underlords, just like in Auto Chess and Teamfight Tactics, you place heroes you buy on a board and then they attack other heroes and creatures. And while I understand the basic rules and mechanics of the genre, I still have no idea where to place…

  • Half-Life Fan Remake’s Final Chapter Is Now Partly Playable

    kotakuinternational

    The long-awaited Half-Life fan remake Black Mesa first came out back in 2012. Gee, sure has been a while since then, huh? And yet, only now is the saga finally nearing its conclusion. The Black Mesa team decided to take Half-Life’s divisive “Xen” chapters back to the drawing board and flesh out the alien fish…

  • Auto Chess Took Over My Life In A Single Afternoon

    kotakuinternational

    I had plans, darn it. Grand plans. I was going to go outside, probably. I might have picked a flower. Maybe it would’ve slipped from between my fingers, only for me to bend down and find three stray kittens, who I’d have ultimately adopted and come to love like the furry little couch-ruining aliens they…