Surprise, Poker Night at the Inventory is returning to Steam next month in remastered form

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A fig   of characters playing poker successful  Poker Night astatine  the Inventory. Image credit: Skunkape Games

Approximately 15 years, 2 months, and 14 days ago, Quintin Smith (RPS successful peace) lobbed the header 'Poker Night At The Inventory Released Today' onto this good site. On this day, February 5th - astir 479,821,535 seconds further connected successful clip - I'm present to archer you Poker Night At The Inventory is coming back, baby.

As poker nights astatine the inventory are wont to do, this 1 snuck up connected each of us, with developers Skunkape Games abruptly revealing their hand. They've got a remastered mentation of the 2010 paper crippled which softly vanished from Steam a small portion ago, and it's acceptable to travel retired connected March 5th. Ah, bollocks, my hand's implicit trah and they've won the pot.

Oi, Heavy from Team Fortress 2, Max from Sam & Max, Strong Bad from Homestar Runner, and Tycho from Penny Arcade. How did nary of you person a beardown capable manus to halt this newcomer from hoovering up each of our chips? They're not answering. They're conscionable engaging successful vaguely comic banter.

Anyway, this revamped mentation of Telltale Games' Texas Hold'em tussler boasts a wholly rebuilt poker simulation designed to beryllium "far much accurate" and person you opponents marque decisions which amended acceptable their personalities. It's besides gotten "a top-to-bottom ocular refresh, featuring higher solution models, a much elaborate environment, crisper animation, and caller lighting". Finally, you tin fiddle with immoderate caller knobs to tweak things similar stating buy-ins and however overmuch your chap players talk.

Oh, and immoderate of the Team Fortress 2 items you tin unlock done playing Poker Night person returned arsenic portion of this comeback. So, if you fancy nabbing the Iron Curtain minigun, the Enthusiast’s Timepiece watch, the Crimestomper Combo pistol/badge, oregon the Dangeresque, Too? sunglasses, you've present got different accidental to bash so.

If that's not a beardown capable income pitch, you tin cheque retired John Walker (RPS successful peace)'s thoughts connected the archetypal Poker Night from backmost successful the day. "It's incredibly cheap, astir £3, and that does marque a truly tremendous difference," helium wrote. "And it's animated truly nicely, each quality maintaining their unsocial style. But sadly, arsenic comic arsenic a batch of the lines decidedly are, it doesn't last, and it doesn't person a workable poker crippled underneath it to marque it worthwhile."

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