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Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s words, from the man who gave them to us. Sir Patrick Stewart…
The HeroQuest board game is coming to Steam with a quest editor and multiplayer
Avalon Hill’s deluxe rerelease of the classic dungeon crawl board game HeroQuest is getting a digital edition courtesy of Nomad Games, who previously adapted board games like Talisman, Love Letter, and Fury of Dracula. Expect goblin-bashing, trap-disarming, treasure-hunting, and spell-casting. I’ll use my broadsword. As well as solo play, with the computer taking on the…
Ultimate Lemmings: The Puzzle Classic for the Modern OS
Ultimate Lemmings Title Screen Before they became Rockstars, DMA Design was an Amiga development house working primarily with Psygnosis. While it wasn’t their first title (that would be the shooter Menace), arguably their most famous game and game series was the puzzler Lemmings. For the uninitiated, Lemmings’ goal was deceptively simple: guide your hapless group…
HoYoverse Announces Cosy Galactic Life Sim ‘Petit Planet’ For Switch 2
The free-to-play title launches in 2027. HoYoverse, the company known for games like Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero, has announced it’s bringing the cosy free-to-play galactic life sim Petit Planet to the Switch 2 in 2027. It shared news about the Nintendo version of the game at the end of its latest “pre-launch special…
Footage of what sure looks like a Persona 1 remake has leaked
Persona tragics have been begging for remakes of the first two games in the series for ages (at least, the ones who aren’t begging for remakes of the PS2-era Shin Megami Tensei games instead). After thoroughly milking Persona 4 and 5, series producer Kazuhisa Wada said in August, “personally, I think it’s something we should…
Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer on RPG cities: ‘Compared to a dungeon, generally speaking, a town is 4x the expense per square foot’
In a new Q&A vlog on his YouTube channel, Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer took a question about why there are so few RPGs in contemporary urban settings. Part of the problem, according to Sawyer: They’re more difficult and costly to make than other RPG environments. Elsewhere in this section, Sawyer cited Baldur’s Gate…
Here’s one bit of good news for Mass Effect: modders are bringing the multiplayer mode to Mass Effect Legendary Edition
When Mass Effect 3’s beloved multiplayer mode was left out of the Legendary Edition, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Redemption has finally come in the form of the ME3Tweaks modding team, who have spent the last three years quietly working to not only get multiplayer working, but improve it. “It’s not just…
Jagex partnered with a RuneScape-inspired idle game to turn the sequel into an official spinoff
It’s easy to knock old-school RPGs, especially grindfests like RuneScape, for being games where you endlessly and sometimes mindlessly make numbers go up. But Melvor Idle, which self-bills as a RuneScape-inspired idle adventure game that claims to squeeze the genre into its “purest form,” leans into that—and Jagex has partnered with developer Games by Malcs…
Grand Theft Auto 6 teased a handful of its upcoming radio stations and its music curation is as strong as ever
Grand Theft Auto’s radio stations have long stood as an integral part of the series’ whole vibe—either offering time capsules of the times each game was set in (Vice City), or offering a realistic blend of classic and modernity a la Grand Theft Auto 5’s excellent music curation. Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to…
Interview: Fan Translator Chapu Talks Upcoming Projects, Gaming in Argentina, & Resurfacing PS1 Oddities
“Games that aren’t great also deserve…a chance to reach a wider audience”. When the hacker Chapu Translations released his PS1 fan translation of Gust Co., Ltd.’s slapstick 3D adventure Welcome House 2 in December 2024, he was fulfilling a decade-long dream. A huge fan of the PlayStation 1’s eclectic Japanese library and a great admirer…
GOG wants to bring back physical games, but it’s ‘a very, very complicated thing’
I remember when I’d get bored as a kid, I’d marvel at the back covers of my older brother’s PC game boxes—stuff like Guild Wars: Factions and the original World of Warcraft box, the inner cover of which showed a dwarf thwacking a yeti with that one epic sword that looked like a lightsaber. Even…
