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A checkpoint sim where one wrong call can doom the living Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a border checkpoint simulator set in a collapsing city, where a rampant zombie-like infection is taking hold — and your station is the last line before everything spills over. Players take command of the final checkpoint and inspect…
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Indie Game Showcase 2025 — hub, giveaway entry, and Community Choice results Welcome to the Indie Game Showcase 2025 hub on Fix Gaming Channel. This page collects the latest Showcase coverage, the live giveaway entry, and the Community Choice results in one place. Community Choice GOTY 2025 winner: Millennium Whisper (30%) Runner-up: Last Outpost (15%)…
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25 winners. 3 digital game keys each. The Indie Showcase giveaway is live. We’re rolling out our Indie Showcase 2025 coverage across the site — and we’re celebrating with a giveaway prize pool of digital game keys. We’re picking 25 winners. Each winner receives 3 digital game keys from the Showcase pool. Some winners may…
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Community Vote — Fix Gaming Channel Game of the Week Awards Voting is open until December 31. The Community Choice winner will be revealed on January 1. Our Game of the Week picks have been building into something special — and now it’s your turn. Vote for your favorite GOTW title from the list below….
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Backlog fuel for less: the Winter Sale picks worth grabbing Another orbit around the Sun, and the Steam Winter Sale is here again. With budgets feeling tighter for a lot of us, this year is perfect for hunting down real Steam Winter Sale bargains. A proper rummage through the discounts hits differently this time of…
A handpicked list of indie mobile games worth playing in 2025, from The Exit 8 and Afterplace to Vampire Survivors, Thronefall, Chants of Sennaar, and Art of Fauna. These small-team games show how strong mobile design can be when controls, pacing, and fair monetization come first.
A cinematic horror trip where staying awake becomes survival Reviewed on PC.Score: 8.5/10 Sleep Awake is Game of the Week #33 — and this is also a quick Showcase preview before we roll out the full lineup + giveaway details. If you missed it, here’s the main hub: Fix Gaming Channel Indie Game Showcase 2025…
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Steam had a brief connectivity wobble Earlier today, Steam experienced a short disruption that affected several parts of the platform — not only Friends & Chat, but also downloads and other live features. The Steam Friends & Chat outage left many players across regions (USA, EU, and Asia) seeing Steam stuck on “Offline / Connecting…”,…
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Lynwood Montgomery discusses traditional art training, AI in game production, Magic Online, creative direction, human-built games, and why strong creative judgment still matters in the games industry.
A martial arts roguelite where practice becomes power Reviewed on PC.Score: 9/10 There’s a specific kind of confidence that only shows up when a game makes you feel smarter than you were five minutes ago. Forestrike did that to me again and again — not by handing out overpowered upgrades, but by teaching me how…
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Ubisoft has acquired March of Giants from Amazon’s Montreal Games studio Ubisoft has announced it has acquired March of Giants, previously developed at Amazon’s Montreal Games studio, and that the project’s team will join Ubisoft to continue development on the free-to-play 4v4 “war MOBA.” Fix Gaming Channel will keep an eye on how this one…
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Log Away: A Calm, Creative Escape Into Your Own Cozy Cabin Reviewed on PC.Score: 6.5/10 Log Away is the kind of game where you boot up expecting something tiny and simple… and then suddenly an hour slips away because you’re too busy deciding where your favorite chair should go. It describes itself as a “cozy…
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Samson looks like a hard-edged noir action throwback from the creator of Just Cause Swedish studio Liquid Swords, led by Avalanche Studios co-founder and Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg, has revealed its debut game: Samson: A Tyndalston Story. The project is being framed as a consequence-heavy noir action experience built around debt, pressure, and survival…
A first-person sci-fi “stalk ’em up” where a lone software engineer and their C.A.T. tool pick through a silent moon base. Platform played: PC (Windows) — preview build. ROUTINE is a first-person sci-fi horror “stalk ’em up” set on an abandoned lunar base built around an ’80s vision of the future. You’re a software engineer…
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