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Celebrate Binding of Isaac: Rebirth’s release date with this horrifying, NSFW trailer

The religious roguelike Binding of Isaac has been remade and expanded into Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, and it’ll be out on November 4 for Steam, PS4, and PS Vita. In an interview we conducted with Team Meat designer Edmund McMillen, McMillen mentioned that he “was fucking positive that Isaac would not do well” when it first came out. Well, it’s been so successful that it now demands more levels, more enemies, up to 400 hours of gameplay and even local co-op, so you and a friend can explore the depths of a horrific nightmare together. The expansion, developed by Edmund McMillen…

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SteamBoy, the illegitimate lovechild of Steam and a Game Boy

While we were in our post-E3 stupor, a dev group went and announced a rather miraculous handheld system that plays Steam games. Due out in 2015, the SteamBoy, as the portmanteau suggests, combines the awesome library of Valve’s popular digital download platform with the play-it-anywhere-ability of a Game Boy. This sounds a little hard to believe considering that a powerful gaming PC would have to be shrunk down to fit in the palms of your hands, but apparently this can be done, to an extent.  You’re probably thinking that DOTA 2 would surely be terrible on a modified Steam Controller…