After more than two decades, the creator of Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint.net, and it’s all thanks to a ‘slam dunk case of trademark infringement’
Paint.NET is one of the best free tools on the Internet, a Photoshop-like program that comes with much of the functionality of Adobe’s software without the foreboding sense that you’re selling your soul, while also being more user-friendly than similar tools like GIMP. However, there has always been one slight oddity about the program’s existence….
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World Has Been Rated For Switch 1 & 2
It was announced earlier this week. Earlier this week, Square Enix lifted the lid on Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations for the legendary series. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Robot watch: The weirdest things the clankers did this month including moonwalking themselves to death, losing a fight to a step, and drowning by the dozens in Sydney Harbour
As another month goes by, another mountain of evidence is collected suggesting that robots are just like us: dumb as hell and bad at everything. Whether demonstrating martial arts, cutting a rug on the dance floor, or attempting to delight people on the ground with an aerial lightshow, May was another busy month for robots…
Paralives is home to the kind of architectural creative freedom I haven’t felt from a life sim since The Sims 2
Once upon a time I was a creator of Sims. A moulder of virtual people. Pushing and pulling at sliders to contort pixels like putty, perfectly preening them with makeup and hairstyles and outfits that would compliment the personalities I had invented for them. As I grew older, something shifted. An internalised domestication that suddenly…
Bungie spills the beans on combat tuning for Marathon Season 2, and it’s bad news for shotgun lovers and thermal snipers
Bungie revealed Season 2 of Marathon earlier this week, and it’s already given players the headlines for its upcoming reset. Marathon is getting a new map, a new defence-focussed shell, a new runner upgrade system, and a free week for players who didn’t jump aboard for Season 1 to try the game out for themselves….
007: Nightfire review (2003)
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: 007: Nightfire review – PC Gamer issue #107 (US, February 2003) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and newly taken screenshots. By Chuck Osborn (Image credit: EA) It’s an irony that only a master criminal…
A burnt-out Final Fantasy 14 playerbase is noticeably more chipper after its latest reveal, even if we’ve seen nothing come of it yet
I knew something had to give, but I never realized just how fatigued I was with Final Fantasy 14’s current state until I walked out of the Anaheim Convention Center last month after Fan Fest. Years of rigid adherence to aging systems and its predictable patch structure were finally catching up to me. My favorite…
RandomPac – A great tribute to Pac-Man, an arcade game first released by Namco in 1980 [UPDATE]
More great news this week as looking through the itch io website, we’ve found out that LC-Games has released the latest game of RandomPac for the Commodore 64. A game that isn’t just a tribute to Pac-Man, an arcade game released by Namco in 1980. But this version of the game has procedurally generated mazes and…
Our Baldur’s Gate 3 quiz gauntlet is complete—now try a bonus round on romance, literature, and classes
Surprise, surprise. Our quizzes on the RPG that swept awards shows all through 2023 (and even into 2024) continue to be some of our most popular. Baldur’s Gate 3 really left an impression on everyone, and even after finishing up our quiz on the final act, I’m already thinking about how I’ll revisit the series…
Balatro publisher Playstack only discovered it because they had a guy checking all the new releases on Steam every day: ‘I saw the game the day it went up on Steam’
As part of a talk highlighted in the 2026 GDC Trends Report, Playstack head of discovery Patrick Johnson explained how the indie publisher got in on the ground floor with PCG’s 2024 game of the year, Balatro. There’s no shortcut or sexy secret, though, just putting in boring work with a dose of good old-fashioned…
