Amid a legendary autumn for PC gaming, a team of three developers quietly released one of the best shooters you can play right now into early access

I spent over five hours exploring Fortune’s Run‘s first full level, and I didn’t even finish the optional objectives. “Fully simulated centrifugal gravity space station level” is a promise, one I have to admit I wasn’t sure Fortune’s Run would deliver on. I wondered how tiny developer Team Fortune could pull off an open-ended, fast-paced…

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It turns out good guys can rescue Baldur’s Gate 3’s evil playthrough companion mod-free by turning her into a sheep and making the sheep stand trial

Drow Paladin Minthara seems like a cool character, even if she placed dead last in PC Gamer’s Baldur’s gate 3 companion ranking. You literally have to break the Geneva Convention and help some stinky goblins attack a refugee camp to recruit her, and this route also sees you waving goodbye to companions Karlach, Wyll, Halsin,…

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Anniversary: Nokia’s N-Gage Turns 20 Today

Side-talkin’ for two decades. Nokia’s N-Gage is now 20 years old. Released in 2003, the device was seen as a rival to the Game Boy Advance. Boasting powerful hardware and the ability to make phone calls, send text messages and access the internet, many predicted that it would steal away market share from Nintendo thanks…

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ARCADE HEAVEN – by Ryan Burger

Rolling into town late on a Friday night, we didn’t know what to expect about the accommodations set up for us by Ryan of the Illinois Game Con. I had checked out the website for Arcadia (vintagevideogames.com) and it looked really cool. I was told we were staying above the arcade in some level of…

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