February 2024

For the foundational myth of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Horus Heresy had an extremely prosaic origin. The reason it exists, this massive fallen-paradise fairytale taking place 10,000 years in the setting’s past, is that Games Workshop couldn’t afford to put miniatures representing two different factions in a box back in 1988. Rewind to the…

Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good…

A new real-time card game is getting popular within its quite indie niche: WitchHand, a cutesy-styled game about “leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands” launched just this past week, on February 7, 2024. Using cards, you build up buildings, gather apprentices and familiars, and assign them resources to do their jobs so that you…

A new update for Slime Rancher 2’s early access build has wildly overhauled the ways in which you can customize the world of rainbow island and your slime ranch. The brand new Gadgets My Way update, released on February 8, expands the system of slime interaction with gadgets, comprehensively overhauls the system for building things,…

You know what’s relevant and exciting in the year of our lord 2024? The third Ultima game from 1983. OK, not really, and I leave drawing a line from Ultima 3: Exodus to the CRPGs of today as an exercise for the reader, but it really is fascinating to look back at nonetheless.  This is…

I was doing pretty well in the Next Fest demo for Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown. I’d achieved a happy equilibrium, with all my villagers gathering and producing the necessary supplies for my hand-built hamlet’s steady growth. Lumberers were lumbering, quarriers were hauling rocks, and my orchard farmers were churning out apples: the basic fuel…

Helldivers 2 is now not only PlayStation’s most successful PC release, it has doubled the record of previous big hit God of War. Helldivers 2 has reached a peak concurrent player count of 155,926 this weekend, while God of War previously held the record at 73,529 peak concurrent players. PC Gamer reported on Friday that…