‘All roads lead back to Arma’
The ArmA family tree (Image credit: Future) This TikTok from Biffmatic (recently reshared by Bohemia Interactive) reminded me just how different PC gaming would look today if not for Arma, the long-running milsim series that’s still going strong. Pretty much everyone knows that DayZ, one of the important PC games of the previous decade, began…
Rockstar asks modders to please take its games very seriously
What happened On September 10, Rockstar Games published new mod guidelines on its website, which it says are intended to “maintain a fun, creative, and welcoming place for players and content creators.” The guidelines are seem primarily targeted at mods for the FiveM and RedM platforms, which Rockstar acquired—along with their developers—in 2023. Rockstar says…
World of Warcraft: Forever players competing over enemies is ‘extremely important’ to the experience, Blizzard says: ‘This is one of those things that we simply must hold the line on’
When the gates opened on the World of Warcraft: Forever beta, it was a free-for-all. Everyone fought to be the first to “tag” enemies with their attacks so they would count for their quests—a problem that is essentially obsolete in modern WoW. My memories of doing this in the real classic WoW came flooding back…
How Does League of Legends’ Free Champion Rotation Work?
Twenty champions you do not own are sitting in your champion select right now, and they vanish on Tuesday. The League of Legends free champion rotation is a weekly set of free champions that any account at summoner level 11 or above can play without spending Blue Essence or Riot Points. It resets every Tuesday,…
Feature: Indie Games Survey 2026
Indie Know. If you’re reading this, then you’ve already taken the first step to getting involved with our Indies Games Survey for 2026. Completing this survey will help us get to know you – our audience – better, and this in turn will help to shape and evolve the site in a way that directly…
Wait, how did Lego beat Minecraft to making a city builder?
Lego announced a city builder called Lego Skylines last month and we all collectively said: “Oh yeah, duh.” A landscape of colorful bricks snapping together into a metropolis from the godlike perspective we already view our real life Legos just makes sense. Hold on, what about the brand I affectionately refer to as “digital Legos”?…
Bungie un-cancels Destiny: Vaulted content is coming back as new leadership promises ‘Destiny is foundational to our future’
Bungie’s new leadership duo laid out the “next chapter of Bungie” today in a blog post with an accompanying video. The big news is that Bungie has essentially uncanceled Destiny 2, or will at least go the lengths to finally undo its greatest mistake: vaulting a bunch of raids and multiple of its story campaigns….
The Lost Art of the High Score
There was a time when finishing a game was almost beside the point. The real question was whether the number at the top of the screen was bigger than it had been five minutes earlier. Classic arcade games could build enormous amounts of motivation around something remarkably simple: a score. There were no sprawling achievement…
Genesis/Mega Drive to Get Physical Edition of Mr. Nutz 2: Hoppin Mad in Early 2027
90s platformer Mr. Nutz 2: Hoppin Mad, originally released on the Amiga in 1994 is now set for a physical release on the Sega Genesis in early 2027, Strictly Limited Games announced on their website. Retailing for $49.99, the game is currently available for pre-order on the Strictly Limited Games website, which promises “more vibrant…
GTA 5 has true air travel now thanks to the mod I just installed, but they won’t let me give me my pals piggybacks onto the plane
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. It might feel minnowish…
