March 2025

Schedule 1 is about doing chores. Picking up bags of soil from the hardware store, watering plants, restocking the back shelf, trying and failing to finish deliveries on time—besides the occasional scrape with the fuzz, being an amateur drug dealer is as mundane as any other customer service job. It’s so mundane that I expected…

Balatro developer LocalThunk is notoriously private. It’s not some kind of put-on: Wout van Halderen, communications director of Balatro publisher Playstack, told us at GDC that LocalThunk isn’t “trying to pull a Banksy,” he’s just “a person who doesn’t really like the spotlight,” and choosing to stay anonymous helps him manage the pressures of his…

Are you looking to make money fast in simulation videogame Schedule 1 with the best drug strain combinations? While small-time dealers in Schedule 1 can get by with the standard cannabis types like OG Kush or Green Crack, the real money lies in custom strains created by adding all sorts of different things to the…

Like all good Westerns, Rosewater starts on a train. Need to know What is it? Western point-and-click adventure game, and a spiritual successor to Lamplight City Release date: March 27, 2025 Expect to pay: $20 / £17 Developer: Grundislav Games Publisher: Application Systems Heidelberg Reviewed on: Windows 11, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, AMD Ryzen 9…

Earlier this month, we covered the release of Baldur’s Village, a Stardew Valley mod adding more than 20 characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 that earned Larian CEO Swen Vicke’s stamp of approval. This morning, we reported how Wizards of the Coast seemingly decided that the best way to capitalize off that brand momentum was to…

I’ve been curious about Psycho Patrol R for a long time, but after spending seven hours with it in early access, it’s now one of my most anticipated games: A ludicrously complex immersive sim, mech sim, and open-ended RPG in the tradition of Deus Ex, Morrowind, or Stalker. It’s also extremely difficult, and I feel…

I was perhaps a bit uncharitable when the first Minecraft movie teaser dropped in 2024, and by “uncharitable” I mean that I may have sent off several emails to the Hague to complain about the commission of crimes against humanity. A bit extreme, perhaps, but I’m hardly the only one who was appalled by what…

I sat down for a demo of Chinese action game Phantom Blade Zero with two main curiosities. First was how its combat compares to last year’s Black Myth: Wukong, and it turns out: pretty different. Second was the backstory of S-Game studio founder “Soulframe” Liang, who started his career with an RPG Maker game while…

One of the most unintuitive parts of life in Inzoi is figuring out how to invite someone over to your house. You’d think it would involve pulling out your cell phone like getting a job or buying a car, both of which you can do through an app. Nope, for some reason there’s no way…