‘Make some noise’: Vanillaware reportedly wants more of its games on PC, but it’s up to the publishers
I try not to think too hard about console exclusives. What I don’t know can’t hurt me, and all the cool games hidden away on whatever the hell a “PlayStation” is can’t tempt me into buying one if I don’t know they exist. Vanillaware games, though, have historically been too cool to ignore. It was…
“We Have The Means To Fight This Case To The End” – Gaming’s Most Infamous Trademark Troll Is Back
“We intend to expose Tim Langdell for what he is”. Langdell once managed to scare Future Publishing back in the day over the use of the word ‘Edge’ for its multiformat magazine Tim Langdell – the notable copyright troll who was once a thorn in the sides of Namco, Future Publishing and Electronic Arts over…
A little known rendering technique that can create low-cost, photo-real graphics may be about to have its big moment in game development
A photo-real art style rarely sells me on a game. That said, over the last few months, a tech delivering low-cost, photorealistic graphics has become something of a singular obsession of mine: Gaussian splatting. Previously, I lost myself in this very basic FPS laying its scene inside a Gaussian splat of a real-world abandoned space….
New Crimson Desert patch lets you hoard 100 pets and gives you more chainsaw access
I have two guinea pigs. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to have a third pig, or even a cat or a dog on top of that, and I start to feel dizzy. Crimson Desert players must scoff at my weakness. As of the latest patch, they can register up to 100…
Sim racing is flourishing, but what happened to the arcade racer?
I became a racing game aficionado at age five playing Lego Racers on my great grandfather’s Windows 95 Gateway PC. And I’ve been a car enthusiast since my days careening the Subaru Impreza Rally Car ’99 into walls on the dirt stages of Gran Turismo 2. But sim racing never quite did it for me,…
I wish Bungie would stop designing excellent multiplayer shooters and go back to making fantasy strategy games where you blow up zombies with dwarf bombs
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
It’s bittersweet that the best time to play Destiny 2 in years coincides with its end, but I’m happy for the new players who get to experience its most liberating iteration yet
When Bungie announced the final update for Destiny 2, I felt relieved. It surprised me as well. As someone who’s spent the past six years (and over 3,000 hours) battling humanity’s enemies across the solar system, you’d think that news of my favorite MMO’s end would fill me with sadness. But no, just a bittersweet…
This massively ambitious The Witcher 3 mod aims to recreate its biggest cut questline, and you could be the voice of Geralt of Rivia
The Witcher 3 isn’t exactly short of stuff to do, but I nonetheless lament that one of its most ambitious questlines never made it into the final game. Not only because it would have delved much more deeply into The Catriona Plague—a disease ravaging Velen that mostly serves as a background event in the final…
Palworld 1.0 won’t wipe your data, ‘but you should’ says Pocketpair’s publishing boss
As announced at this year’s Summer Games Fest, Palworld 1.0 arrives in less than a month. The launch version looks like it’ll introduce a lot of new stuff to Pocketpair’s Pokémon-inspired survival-crafting game, and with all those additions comes a question: will Palworld 1.0 require players to start again from scratch, or will you be…
Review: Dark Alien In Deep Space (Vectrex) – Survival Horror Straight Outta 1982
I’m an evil alien. One of the coolest things about the Vectrex community is how many homebrew games have been made. There were 28 retail titles released during its lifetime; as of now, a conservative estimate would put aftermarket titles at around 150; it might even be over 200. We honestly do not know, because…
