You can’t be groundbreaking without leaving a few cracks. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Andy looks back at a pivotal juncture in the Pocket Monster series which hinted at the path it would take over the following…
I’ll admit I passed on the original House Flipper craze because I’m not one for job sim games. But I really like to build and decorate houses, which, it turns out, House Flipper 2 is totally prepared to support. House Flipper dev Frozen District has already announced that the sequel would have a sandbox mode,…
It’s been over a month since Starfield was launched around the globe but Intel has finally addressed performance issues and a handful of bugs with a new set of drivers for its Arc graphics card range. New GPU driver releases aren’t typically hold-the-front-page news items, but Intel Arc owners have been facing some pretty annoying…
You ever feel like Starfield’s best drops are a bit thin on the ground? Specifically, that its toughest elite enemies seem only ever to drop fairly naff rare and epic weapons instead of the legendary drops that come with three gameplay-altering modifiers? You’re not alone, but now, as spotted by GamesRadar, one enterprising player has…
Diablo 4’s sorcerers have had, uh… a bit of a hard time, the poor guys. While they were super promising in the game’s beta—with a ton of sorcerous excitement when the game opened its gates—things haven’t exactly been smooth sailing since. For starters, the pre-season one patch crushed them disproportionately—alongside other nerfs, it unilaterally ramped…
Developer Nadeo has announced changes to the Trackmania business model, following the 2020 game’s recent re-release on consoles. This iteration of Trackmania was something of a soft reboot for the series (heavily based on Trackmania Nations) and arrived with a free-to-play business model, under which players could access a bunch of the game’s features for…
Back in February, Elodie Games teased a new co-op action RPG codenamed Project Skies. Today it officially revealed the game, and it’s fair to say that things have changed just a little bit between then and now: It’s called Seekers of Skyveil, and it’s a “PvPvE fantasy extraction RPG” that blends conventional APRG mechanics with…
Recruits, brace yourselves for an exhilarating new challenge as we proudly present From Space – an action-packed co-op game that will take you and your squad on entirely new adventures where you’ll be defending the globe against an alien invasion. Embark on daring missions across a variety of unique locations, each presenting challenging objectives paired…
Headbangers: Rhythm Royale is flying from the roost later this month, and it’s so dumb and stupid I kind of love it. To boil down the concept: imagine Fall Guys, but with rhythm-based minigames in the style of Warioware. You can play a demo of it right now as part of Steam’s Next Fest until…
Need to Know What is it? Paradox style grand strategy, but Star Trek. Release date October 12, 2023 Expect to pay $30/£27 Developer Nimble Giant Publisher Paradox Interactive Reviewed on Intel i5, 16GB RAM, GTX 1660 Link Official site I am opening this review with a warning: I am going to spend a lot of…