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Gunpoint, the Independent Games Festival nominated 2D stealth game with puzzles, will be heading to Steam soon. You can see how the game plays in the video below, which is hosted by the game’s lead designer, Tom Francis. Enjoy. Thanks, Polygon.

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Journo-turned-dev Tom Francis has released a new video for Gunpoint, his PC spy-puzzler. It’s eight minutes long and explains how to use a “crosslink” to rewire buildings, obfuscate guards and exit high windows. It looks brilliant, to be blunt. There’s no release date: it’s just been pushed past its expected Christmas launch. Watch it below.

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The 2008 Games Media Awards in London last night saw Edge take the gong for best UK mag and Eurogamer win for best British site last night, with Eurogamer’s Ellie Gibson and PC Gamer’s Tom Francis winning best online and print writers respectively.

Full list of winners below. We live-blogged it as well, as you can see here.

• Games Media Legend; Sponsored by Atari: Steve Jarratt
• Games Magazine: Edge
• Games Website: Eurogamer
• Games Broadcast: Games Night on X-League.TV
• Specialist Games Writer, Print: Tom Francis, PC Gamer
• Specialist Games Writer, Online: Ellie Gibson, Eurogamer
• Rising Star; Sponsored by Rising Star Games: Simon Millar, X360
• Mainstream Magazine Games Writer; Sponsored by Ubisoft: Simon Munk, FHM
• National Newspaper, Best Games Coverage: The Guardian
• Regional Games Columnist – Dave Cook