February 2025

The last thing I need in my life is another factory game, if only because allowing any factory game into your life risks it being consumed entirely by its sprawling, hopelessly absorbing logistics puzzle. But then Cordyceps Collective went and mashed up Factorio with last year’s colony simulation Empire of the Ants, and now I…

I was wooed consistently through the latest trailer for RoadCraft, Saber Interactive’s follow-up to Expeditions: Mudrunner about rebuilding infrastructure across global disaster zones, but it was the phrase “mobile quarry” that convinced me Roadcraft is the one. Quarries, as you may know, are generally static affairs, given they are literally the ground. But RoadCraft’s portable…

Hazelight Studios’ upcoming adventure Split Fiction does more than add a genre-blending twist to the cooperative action of It Takes Two. A newly released trailer shows that the follow-up to Josef Fares’ wildly successful third-person platformer isn’t a strictly linear affair. According to Fares, who provides the trailer’s voiceover, players will be able to embark…

Helskate is the kind of wild genre-fusion design I love in videogames. Tony Hawk Pro Skater’s arcade score-chasing, combined with the roguelite progression and drip-feed of supernatural drama that Hades redefined the genre with, topped off with a dash of Risk of Rain’s escalating combat challenge and frantic character-building. It sounds too good to be…

At the beginning of every season in Marvel Rivals, each player will get a rank reset and will be demoted around seven tiers (unless they’re already floating around the bottom), meaning they’ll all just get grouped in Bronze 3. This reset has meant that the first half of Season 1 has—what I can only imagine—felt…

DeTechtive 2112 feels like a gorgeous set of environments looking for a game, if my casual run through the first half of its story missions is any indication. Developed by Turkish indie outfit M11 Studio, it’s a stealthy isometric shooter about a depressed noir detective in a very snazzy jacket, solving crimes in post-WW3 England….