Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Okami

AwoOooOo. Get your paintbrushes ready, because it’s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last week, we matched up a trio of covers for Wario Land 3 on the Game Boy Color and after a weekend of voting, we were left with a clear winner. It was the European variant that walked away with…

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In a sea of Game Awards announcements, you probably missed the debut trailer for Covenant, a gnarly ‘FPS Soulslike’ from veteran shooter devs looking to ‘provide more than what seems possible for the price’

You might be all trailered out after one of the most exciting Game Awards lineups in the show’s 10-year history, but one of the coolest game announcements of the past week actually happened outside Geoff Keighley’s gameapalooza: Covenant, a dark fantasy, first person FPS-RPG whose devs boast some impressive shooter bona fides, as well as…

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Great moments in PC gaming: Getting freaked out by one of the creepy close-ups in The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow (Image credit: Wadjet Eye) Developer: Cloak and DaggerYear: 20122 The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow isn’t the scariest horror game I’ve ever played, but it might be the most disarming. The most powerful tool in its…

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What counts as an action RPG anyway?

THE PCG Q&A Find all previous editions of the PCG Q&A here. Some highlights:– What’s a weird quirk your PC has?– What are your most-played games on Steam, and why have you spent so many hours on them?– Have you learned a real-world skill from a game? Imagine an alignment diagram. On one extreme you…

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