Here’s an adorable little game in the vein of the much-enjoyed Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator with the exception, of course, that it is free. And everyone loves free things. In Enscroll you’re a fresh magic academy graduate with hefty loans to repay using your newfound skills—but no prospect of full-time employment. To repay your dues…
Chinese-made action RPG Black Myth: Wukong has cleaned up at this year’s Steam awards, winning not just Game of the Year but two other categories in a community-voted awards event that only has 11 categories total. In addition to Game of the Year Black Myth: Wukong has netted both the Best Game You Suck At…
The holiday pickups. The final full week of 2024 has been and gone, and by the time you’re reading this, it might even be 2025 where you are — hello from the past! Anyway, in the UK, we’ve got the final full 2024 results for the boxed charts, and it’s another solid and predictable week…
Our picks for the best eShop games in December. As we sit upon the cusp of 2025, we’re looking back one last time at 2024 — and our eShop Selects for December! Stuffed full of games? Need some more eShop delights? Well, we can help bring you up to date with the best games we…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the past year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It’s that time of year again. No, not the holiday season, we’re over that, but the time when CES 2025 approaches. The Consumer Electronics Show will officially start on January 7…
Pokén around. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in October. Enjoy! The first generation of Pokémon games features some of the most iconic locations in the entire franchise. The eerie Lavender…
“It seemed there’d been a not-very-robust sign-off process”. Don’t worry – you’re not suffering from déjà vu. If you feel like you’ve read this before, it’s because we’re republishing some of our favourite features from the past year as part of our Best of 2024 celebrations. If this is new to you, then enjoy reading…
Baldur’s Gate 3 really is an astonishing game—and I don’t just mean in the sense that it’s quite good (it is). Rather, it’s astonishing because of its sheer longevity. Traditionally-speaking, single player RPGs have their moment in the sun, sure. But they usually only stay there for a handful of months, after which their player…
Sometimes I regret ever accepting the battle pass as a concept. It’s not like there was much of a choice about it—before I’d ever engaged with one myself they were already everywhere. It all happened so fast: After gaming’s last big dust-up with loot boxes in 2017, it was like the entire industry collectively switched…
Factorio is known among the more technical segment of its player base as one of the most, if not the most, well-optimized pieces of software in videogames. Yet its optimization-obsessed fans manage to push the limits of the factory-builder’s simulation anyway… and then use mods surpass them. Thus was born the Eternity Cluster, this year’s…