As with last year, Valve have posted a look back at all of the changes to Steam in 2019 with a brief look ahead to 2020 squeezed in at the end. There are plenty of features you may or may not remember being added to Steam last year, among them changes to User Reviews. Valve claims they have utilized the new system for excluding anomalous barrages of negative reviews quite a chunk of times since implementing the new policy last year.

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Last year, Mojang announced that a big overhaul was planned for the hellish Nether dimension in Minecraft. The first playable look at that update has landed today in a game snapshot that Java Edition players can access through their launcher. There’s a lot to look through already, including spooky new trees, stronger armor, and creepy music.

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How long has it been since I first saw gifs of Ooblets those goofy critters trundling around town behind their awkwardly dancing human friend? RPS first posted about this cute little town sim three years ago. So probably about then, I’d say. I thought it might arrive in 2018. I had hope for 2019 too. According to Glumberland’s development update for January, “2020 is the YEAR OF THE OOB.” So this will be the year I jog around town with my little dancing monsters? I hope so.

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On February 13th, the beautiful visual novel Florence is coming to PC from mobile. Created by the new studio of Monument Valley lead designer Ken Wong, it follows a young woman named Florence as she falls in love with a street performer. It’ll have us play out some of the seemingly mundane parts of her life, from cleaning her teeth to answering phone calls from her mum, as it takes us through a touching story.

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It’s time for another one of those limited time Fortnite events and (if you hadn’t heard) it’s currently February so Epic have gone with a Valentine’s sort of theme with the title Love And War. As it do with Fortnite events, there’s a new game mode to try out and new themed costumes to buy as well. The new game mode is a decidedly Counter-Strike inspired attack and defense mode with teams of six.

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Warcraft III was an immensely important game for a lot of people. A fantasy RTS that lead right into the start of World Of Warcraft, it left a big, war-booted footprint on the landscape of games. Odds are, you will have felt its impact even if you never played RTS games, since the original Dota grew out of a mod for Warcraft III’s multiplayer mode.

People never entirely stopped playing the original Warcraft III, so when you think about it, a remastered version feels long overdue. In some respects, Warcraft III: Reforged does a serviceable job of fulfilling that need. In others, it’s a bit – dare I say – underforged. In further respects still, some people might wish it had never happened.

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With around 80 currently known Temtem, you’ll want to keep track of where to find them. This Temtem list aims to give you all the necessary information you need in order to complete your Tempedia.

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In the first few areas of Temtem, there are small rodent-like creates called Skail. They appear rather often, making it tempting to see if it could be a new member of your Temtem team. This, however, should not happen, because Skail are rather useless.

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There are very few Temtem that I would consider to be a great early option to catch, but Ganki is a great option for new players. It combines both Wind and Electric types, which takes very little damage from Wind type attacks, but does have access to many moves that could prove useful in the first Dojo.

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My love for building stuff in The Sims 4 continues. I saw today that, in the space of about a month, my custom content folder has hit a gigabyte in size. Whoops. But this is all in service to a greater goal, which is building nice houses. After I showed everyone my tiny desert concrete block, Alice0 said she would like a house with more ferns and moss, and in Scotland. So I have built her a house. It took a long time. Eventually I will build everyone on the team a house.

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