Following the success of the musical RPG Stray Gods, Summerfall Studios has unveiled its next project: a “demonic roguelite deckbuilder” called Malys. The Kickstarter pre-launch page—and yes, it’s going to Kickstarter—lays out the story, written by former Dragon Age lead writer and Summerfall co-founder David Gaider: “As Noah, former priest turned exorcist and demon hunter,…
Bring it on! As if today’s Switch 2 Direct wasn’t enough of an info dump, Nintendo has also published a series of Ask the Developer interviews, so we can get even more details on the upcoming console. In Chapter 4 of the discussion with Kouichi Kawamoto, Takuhiro Dohta and Tetsuya Sasaki, the chat moves onto…
Putting the ‘meh’ in ‘homehscreen’. One of the biggest criticisms against the Nintendo Switch is its home screen. There’s nothing wrong with it, per se, but it does lack a certain pizazz that we had come to expect from Nintendo’s consoles. The House of Mario didn’t pull back the curtain on what creative design swings…
South of Midnight is the Deep South, stop-motion mythic folktale game from Compulsion Games, and it’s releasing in less than a week on Tuesday, April 8—unless you’ve preordered the premium edition, in which case you can play it in much less than a week when early access unlocks tomorrow on April 3. It’s got a…
The first title update for Monster Hunter Wilds arrives this Friday, and with it comes arena quests. I’ll confess I’m having a bit of difficulty parsing the exact differences between Arena Quests, Free Challenge Quests, and Challenge Quests—even with the provided arena quest explainer—but one thing is clear: Capcom doesn’t want people meddling with the…
Hollow Knight: Silksong wasn’t the only long-awaited game to finally get a release date (or, at least, a release year) at today’s Nintendo Direct showcase: After long years of waiting, Deltarune developer Toby Fox announced today that Deltarune Chapters 1-4 will be released on June 5 as a launch title for the Nintendo Switch 2—and…
A Minecraft Movie is out this Friday, and today the reviews started pouring in like lava when you mistakenly break the wrong block in your underground base. PC Gamer got to attend an advance screening, so your first step should be to go read our review of A Minecraft Movie. If you want a bit…
Seemingly lost amidst the Nintendo Direct excitement of actual Silksong info, not Bloodborne 2, and specs for the Nintendo Switch 2 is word of a new game from Astroneer developer System Era Softworks called Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, “a multiplayer voyage of discovery, cooperative expeditions, and camaraderie” in Deep Space. “The heart” of the new game…
What could’ve been… Hopefully, you’ll have gotten used to the name ‘Nintendo Switch 2’ by now. Given how much we now know about Nintendo’s latest hardware, the firm’s approach to its name actually makes a lot of sense. According to an Ask the Developer interview with Kouichi Kawamoto, Takuhiro Dohta, and Tetsuya Sasaki, however, it…
On the eve of The Last of Us Part 2’s long-awaited release on PC, Reality Check is here to grade its realism. Psychologist Dr. Audrey Tang returns to break down the biggest moments of Naughty Dog’s sequel and grade its depiction of trauma, fear, and sweet, sweet revenge. Spoilers for TLOU2’s story within, of course….