February 5, 2024

Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner Mae recorded her first world record playthrough before most of us were out of the character creator. Now she’s appeared at AGDQ, retained the any% title with some back-and-forth jousting, and secured world records in three more BG3 speedrun categories: All ActsAll Acts on the extra hard, permadeath Honour mode difficultyThe…

It’s been an interesting couple of years for Henry Cavill, the Superman-turned-Witcher actor who, in a shockingly brief run of bad luck, ended up out of both jobs. But he landed on his feet at the head of a new Warhammer 40,000 “cinematic universe,” and in a new interview with Josh Horowitz he said there’s…

The Steam Next Fest is now underway and that means we’ve got an awful lot of game demos to plow through in a very short amount of time. One early standout I’ve run is a metroidvania called Tales of Kenzara: Zau, a story about a shaman in the land of Kenzara attempting to reclaim his…

I’m not much of a magic user in survival RPG Enshrouded. I carry a magic wand so I have a ranged attack ready if I run out of arrows, and I have a decent staff I can use to fling fireballs, but my build is more of a survivalist tank: lots of points in HP,…

Evidence is mounting that Microsoft will release a host of its Xbox console exclusives on PlayStation, potentially marking the end of a tradition nearly as old as the medium: the viciously partisan console war. Xbox head Phil Spencer has tacitly acknowledged the rumors and reports too, and if the partial end of Xbox console exclusivity…

The year’s only just started, and the tree-punching genre is dominating. Palworld’s astonishing 19 million players makes Enshrouded’s million look modest, but both can be called 2024 early access survival crafting hits. Can the genre go three-for-three? Nightingale, out in early access on February 22, is yet another survival game on lots of people’s Steam…

A new achievement tied to World of Warcraft’s annual Valentine’s Day-themed event might be one of the most transparent gold sinks in the MMO’s history. For the next two weeks, players who are carrying around 70,000 gold, can toss it straight into the void for 10 achievement points and the sting of being played. To…

One year after the Steam Next Fest demo for Dark and Darker become one of the biggest games on Steam, another extraction-dungeon-crawler called Dungeonborne—first teased in September 2023 as Project Crawl—is replicating the feat with gameplay that looks a whole lot like its predecessor. Dungeonborne’s premise is simple: Pick a fantasy character class, team up…

One of the first things I realized playing the early access release of city builder New Cycle was that it was pretty broken. Not broken as in buggy, though there are bugs, but mechanically. The numbers are off in some way, too big or too small or too strangely punitive. It took me a while…