Gaming: Breaking: Trump shooting suspect's Steam game sees review bomb, spike in activity
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. As reported by Newsweek and Wired, suspected White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter, Cole Thomas Allen, had previously attempted a career as an independent game developer, and has a single game available for purchase on Steam: Bohrdom. The self-described asymmetric fighting game's reviews and discussion forums quickly became a hotbed of political debate and dubious meme-making during and after the incident. Rumors of the game's provenance quickly spread on social media Sunday night. According to CNN, Allen allegedly stormed the Secret Service checkpoint outside the event around 8:30 PM Eastern. At 11:30 Eastern, Game File author and former Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo had seen players flocking to Bohrdom's Steam forums, and shared screenshots of the activity to Bluesky. When I visited the game's Steam store page last night, Bohrdom had four user reviews. At the time of writing, Bohrdom now has 107 user reviews, a 50/50 "Mixed" status, and 10 pages of discussion posts. Bohrdom is an odd game: It scans as an educational tool more than anything else. You play as an electron or nucleus in a gamified version of atomic chemistry, which Allen described as "technically a skill-based, non-violent asymmetrical fighting game," or, alternatively, "a hybrid of a bullet hell and a racing game." Bohrdom is available for $2 on Steam, and lists support for up to 13-player multiplayer. Over 100 people have paid that $2 for the privilege of engaging in a political debate via Bohrdom's Steam reviews, with yet more freeloaders doing so in the discussion forums. It's about what you would expect from this sort of thing: Sub half-hour playtimes with a message of support or mockery to Allen or Trump depending on whether the revie
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