Interactive series Silent Hill: Ascension begins Oct 31, ‘if people are afraid of weird F2P monetization, it’s not a game’

There are currently three Silent Hill games we know about in the works. There’s Bloober Team’s remake of Silent Hill 2, a prequel set in Japan called Silent Hill F, and No Code’s Silent Hill: Townfall. But there’s also a game-adjacent project called Silent Hill: Ascension being made by Genvid Entertainment, an interactive streaming series…

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Promising indie games we saw at PAX Australia 2023

PAX Australia hit Melbourne like a cyclone full of boxing gloves over the weekend, bringing with it Mandalorian cosplayers, cultists of The Lamb, and New Blood Interactive’s incredible merch. Sadly, someone committed the frankly un-Australian act of complaining about New Blood’s “Sick Cunt” T-shirt and they had to remove it from display, but they’ll always…

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This Pathfinder RPG’s weakest class is a poisoner in a game where nearly everyone is immune to poison, but after two years it’s about get a lifesaving overhaul

If you wanted to play a sneaky assassin guy (like I often do) in the excellent CRPG, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, you paradoxically never, ever wanted to pick the Assassin prestige class⁠—it was that bad. In the game’s 2.2 update accompanying the release of its Lord of Nothing DLC on November 21, though, Assassins…

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Arkane shows it hasn’t given up on Redfall with a substantial new update, but it’s hard to imagine a Cyberpunk-style turnaround is in the cards

Despite a rough release and not many people remaining to play it on Steam, Redfall is not yet Deadfall. On Friday, Arkane put out a large update to the game that addresses performance and stability concerns, bugs, accessibility and QoL shortfalls, and even adds new combat encounters and player actions. The performance improvements most notably…

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