Retrieving the Past: Steam Edition

Each year, Day of the Devs hosts a showcase around Summer Game Fest to highlight some of the wildly creative indie games in development around the world. The organizers of Day of the Devs revealed to GameSpot that the non-profit received over 1,700 submissions for this year's Summer Game Fest showcase. That massive list of submissions was ultimately narrowed down to 20 titles, diverse in genre and developers, that make up the showcase. Titles included range from a Yooka-Laylee racing game to a hilarious friendslop game about fighting zombies while boating down a lazy river. We also got release

Far Far West, a cowboy-themed co-op FPS, has sold over 1 million copies in under two weeks on Steam.

Ever since the Steam Deck debuted in 2022, it's been one of my favorite devices. It was relatively affordable for a handheld gaming PC, but still powerful enough to play pretty much anything I would realistically play on the go. And while I still love the thing, the recent price increases make it almost impossible to recommend to anyone looking for a budget gaming handheld right now.

Toy Story Retro Roundup and Toy Story 3 Complete Edition don’t strike me as the kinds of collections that people ask for when they come up with pie-in-the-sky “games to be remastered” wishlists, but licensed games are important, too, and folks should be able to play them. For me, this is a chance to really sit with some games I mostly only ever got glimpses of. But kids deserve to play with these toys, too, and it’s good that Atari is making sure they can.

The HyperMegaTech Super Pocket Rare Edition is a solid handheld with a broad cross-section of games from one of the best classic gaming developers. It brings classics from Battletoads to Banjo-Kazooie into a pocket-sized handheld retro gaming device.