Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
While Dune as a franchise today seems fairly self-evident, historically the concept of sand worms and spice hasn’t lent itself well to adaptations. Such is the case with Elland: The Crystal Wars, a game that was cancelled at 95% completion, and is so obviously supposed to be a Dune video game that a few…
First reported by DSO Gaming, the United West Team modding group has released its first demo for Revelation Blues, an attempt to tell the story of Black Isle Studios’ canceled Fallout 3 project, code named Van Buren, as a mod for Fallout: New Vegas. Van Buren has a deep connection to New Vegas’ story, and…
Monster Hunter Wilds mods are already here and I found the first one new players should install: a mod that adds a health bar for monsters, allowing you to see exactly how much damage you’ve dealt and how far you have left to go. Veteran players of the Monster Hunter franchise may be familiar with…
Monster Hunter Wilds players are so desperate to improve the game’s atrocious performance issues that many jumped on a supposed fix this weekend, claiming repairing a typo can result in an FPS boost. But based on our own testing, as well as follow-up conversations on social media, a true fix for Wilds’ issues lies elsewhere….
Most of us have been to a bad party or two where nothing quite feels right. No-Skin, a recently-released minimalist horror roguelike, shows you what it’s like when the night’s vibes are cataclysmically rancid. The souring conversation with your friends seems like a minor concern, at least, compared to being accosted by an angry, faceless,…
Sometimes, magical things happen when games studios go outside of their wheelhouse. Without Creative Assembly getting experimental, we wouldn’t have the terrifying Alien Isolation. And with Rusty Rabbit, renowned visual novel studio Nitro Plus is branching out in an unusual direction, seemingly blending its knack for storytelling with a cute 2D mascot platformer. One starring…
Is Steam bigger than the Beatles, or Jesus, for that matter? I’m not qualified to answer that, but Valve’s ubiquitous PC gaming platform is definitely bigger than Uzbekistan. As spotted by Blue’s News, Steam surged past 40 million concurrent users for the very first time today. Steam broke the 39 million concurrents barrier back in…
Sometimes, you just gotta go fast; feel that virtual wind in your hair as you launch yourself at the speed of sound through an abstract playground. The Local—a (mostly) free multiplayer speedster sandbox from Aussie solo dev JINC—understands the joy of moving absurdly quick in bizarre, physics-defying ways, and pairs it with the constant, sphincter-clenching…
Nothing stings like betrayal, which is why Firefox users are furious with Mozilla after a controversial update to the developer’s Terms of Use last week. Mozilla is scrambling to smooth things over, but the damage may already be done for many former fans of Firefox. Last Wednesday, Mozilla released a “Terms of Use” document for…