Trying to decide the best starting class in Lords of the Fallen is a tad troublesome. While the game may feature your favourite Soulslike staples such as “Generic knight” and “Fucked up guy who fights with a bucket”, there are a few classes that have a very similar attribute spread and look to have somewhat…
And just like that, our shared 21-month slog is over. Long live our new, possibly lifelong slog. In a press release today, titled “Microsoft concession a gamechanger that will promote competition,” the UK’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA) has announced that it’s approving Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, reversing its April decision to…
As someone who’s been playing tabletop RPGs entirely online ever since the first pandemic lockdown, I’m fascinated by the growth of new platforms and technologies to support that style of play. Digital game aids (such as D&D Beyond) and shared virtual table spaces (such as Roll20) have been around for a while now, but increasingly…
Microsoft cordially invites you to have a crack at tipping its new AI-powered Bing search tools into existential meltdown. And it will pay you up to $15,000 for your trouble. Well, it will if you manage to bait AI Bing in just the right way. Yup, AI Bing has joined Microsoft’s bug bounty program (via…
It’s time. Starfield finally has its most important mod—more important than the script extender, more vital than StarUI—something that changes the game entirely. Thomas the Tank Engine is not, by any means, looming horrifically in the dark corners of my room and forcing me to write this. Ominously titled “Really Useful Starfield“, this mod by…
Update: A demo is now available on Patreon. Update : As IndieRetroNews reports, Pixelglass Games has just released a new demo of its upcoming Doom-like Grind for Amiga & Atari ST over on its Patreon. The demo called ‘Darkenward East’ v0.3 is set within one of its early levels and is designed to be a…
It’s-a what? Yes, you read that headline correctly. We are not surprised to see the Super Mario Bros. Wonder marketing campaign step up a gear before the game’s release in a week’s time (20th October, if you’re wondering), but the wording of this one caught us slightly off guard. Mario is riding an Inchworm Pipe….
This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to the biggest ever city building simulator, Cities: Skylines II. The original Cities: Skylines took on and beat the legendary SimCity series, and for the sequel Colossal Order is taking things to the next level, with more of everything. We deliver never-before-seen images as well as authoritative developer insight. Get world-exclusive…
Coming late November/early December. If you’ve ever wanted to hook up a NES controller to your PC Engine, then you’re in luck. Todd Gill (the owner/designer at Retro Frog) has just announced a new ultra-low latency adapter for the NES controller that works with the PC Engine, CoreGrafx, SuperGrafx, and Duo Consoles. It will cost…
After some earlier rumour-mongering, confirmation has finally been given by Gigabyte that it is to release a new Radeon RX 6750 card, specifically a GRE edition. This will be exclusive to China but this doesn’t mean you won’t be able to pick one up, potentially in a pre-built system as with the RX 7900 GRE,…