Stylish and gorgeous, Songs of Silence has been teasing us with a story-focused approach to 4X strategy for most of the year, but now we’ve had another look as part of the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. The team at Chimera Entertainment showed off Songs’ three factions—the Firstborn, Starborn, and Crusade—in combat, with units ranging…
I’m Brad Flick, Design Director behind Penny’s Big Breakaway, an upcoming 3D action platformer, coming out early next year on PlayStation 5. Today, I will break down one of the bosses in our game. If you are unfamiliar with Penny’s Big Breakaway, you play as Penny and her partner Yo-Yo. Your goal is to help…
The developers of Police Simulator have just announced their next emergency services job sim, Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator, with a high drama trailer at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. You’ll be racing across the city responding to emergencies ranging from basic cuts to exploded gas stations, saving lives as efficiently as possible. In…
I don’t always play surrealistic metroidvanias about escaping the clutches of ancient demonic beings, but when I do, I prefer for them to be set in giant cosmic uteruses. A difficult scratch to itch, but that’s the setting for Ultros, developed by Swedish studio Hadoque, and due for release in 2024. Above is a new…
“In essence, Homeworld 3 was our original dream for Homeworld 2,” said Rob Cunningham, co-founder of Homeworld 3 developer Blackbird Interactive—and once-upon-a-time co-founder of Relic Entertainment, the developer of the original Homeworld games. Back in 1999 Cunningham was the art director for Homeworld, a fully 3D space RTS that felt unlike anything else in the…
Puzzle games usually aren’t chillout games. They’re challenges, brainteasers, mindbenders, and frustrations. Islands of Insight is not that kind of puzzle game. There’s no linear path forcing you to tackle every puzzle in a set order, banging your head against whatever you’re stuck on until you break through. Heck, there isn’t even fall damage, so…
Ahh, the great outdoors! Take a deep breath of that fresh air, feel the sun’s warmth on your skin, and hear those ominous noises calling from the jungle…uh oh. Better get that survival pack ready. Our team here at publisher Gameforge, alongside the phenomenally talented indie development studio Nordic Trolls, are preparing to take you…
Bigger isn’t always better, and that’s especially true when it comes to game sequels: just look at the reviews for Skyrim versus Starfield or Cities: Skylines versus Skylines 2. At the same time I just can’t help but get excited at how big the city looks in the teaser trailer for Frostpunk 2 that debuted…
The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted is here to spotlight our most anticipated games of 2024 and beyond, but not everything in the show today is far off. A new multiplayer shooter promising to be “the most accessible extraction shooter” to date, Hawked, launches today in early access. It’s free-to-play, sports a massive map out…
Not many games have a story like Indika, a game about a 19th century Russian Orthodox nun journeying to the centre of her soul with an “unusual, horn-headed companion.” Drawing inspiration from Dostoevsky and Bulgakov and dripping with dark humour, Indika tells a tale of religion and authority, madness and belief. But also, not many…