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Steam Week in Review: 54 idle games released on Steam last week, and many look eerily similar
When Cookie Clicker and Candy Box both released in quick succession in 2013, I remember them being received mostly as a joke, or else as an amusing parody of “watch numbers go up” RPG gameplay. Then something weird happened: all my colleagues became fixated on Cookie Clicker. So did I. Lots of people on the…
‘If you’re designing an RPG, you have to go back to the source:’ The post-apocalyptic RPG Entropy takes notes from Fallout and a long-abandoned Warhammer spinoff
The early access RPG Entropy is a very different beast to its developers’ previous work. Dread Delusion was a shockingly good homage to first person RPGs like King’s Field or The Elder Scrolls, while this new game is distinctly JRPG-inflected, nailing a lot of the feel and intangibles of something like Final Fantasy 10 or…
The Tetris Company confirms it had nothing to do with the White House’s racist rip-off: ‘we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them’
One of the many things making this feel like a particularly dumb epoch to be living through is the way the US government has taken to using videogames as a tool for self-aggrandizement and disseminating its pro-war and anti-immigration messages. A bunch of people who usually argue politics should be kept out of videogames have…
A hobby dev built a free, 3D galaxy map for Warhammer 40K that loads like lightning in your browser
Sometimes it’s nice to just find something cool and fun and free on the internet, and the Cartographia Imperialis is just that: A 3D galaxy map of the Warhammer 40K Milky Way you can peruse in your browser. It has the same simple, awe-inspiring majesty as Mass Effect’s take on the concept, and you can…
Round Up: The Reviews For Hot Wheels Infinite Rush Are In
Here’s what the critics think about the new open-world racer. Hot Wheels races onto the Switch 2 next week with the new open-world racer Hot Wheels Infinite Rush by Milestone Games. The first lot of reviews have now gone live and so we’ve put together this round up to give you an idea of what…
18 years after Metal Gear Solid 4 first launched, a modder has shown off its first modded map, MGS3’s Groznyj Grad
It already felt weird and wonderful to say that PC Gamer has reviewed Metal Gear Solid 4, a game for the personal computer. Now it gets even weirder: MGS4 mods are incoming, with TriggerHappy on YouTube already showing off a custom map in Kojima’s 2008 stealth-action classic. Back in 2021, modder Jayveer showed off a…
The Blood of Dawnwalker sold 1 million copies in just 3 days
On September 5, Rebel Wolves took to Twitter on the official Blood of Dawnwalker account to announce that the dark vampire RPG had already surpassed one million copies sold just three days after its September 2 launch. “Thank you for playing, sharing, supporting, and being part of the community,” the developer wrote in its celebratory…
‘There is absolutely no generative AI in Space Marine 3’ promises Saber Interactive executive
In a Gamescom interview with IGN, Saber CCO and former id Software dev Tim Willits said that the company’s upcoming Space Marine follow-up is not using generative AI in its development. The studio has otherwise been embracing the technology, which was at the heart of the recent Rideshare Stimulator controversy. “There is absolutely no generative…
Saber CCO Tim Willits is still bullish on AI, but concerned about its environmental impact: ‘Elon wants to put servers in space. That could be the answer, right?’
AI in gamedev is about as hot as hot topics get—the tech is polarizing for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is its environmental impact. The data centers AI relies on come with grave heat and water use concerns at a time when our species’ ecological footprint is already leaning toward the…
Do you ever listen to videogame music in your day-to-day life?
You know, I do a lot of prattling about videogame music at this humble website PC Gamer dot com. It’s practically woven into the fabric of my very being at this point—hugely formative for me growing up, and now I carry little bits of it everywhere. I have half a dozen VGM playlists dedicated to…
