From 2000 to 2010, one of the most important studios in videogames was making the kind of games you’d see dismissed off-hand today. If PopCap released Bejeweled out of the blue right now every YouTube comment would say “looks like a shit mobile game,” but instead we live in the reality where PopCap dominated the…
While perusing the sickos-only BG3Builds subreddit, I learned something that shocked me thanks to the helpful comment of user Arx_724, a bit of knowledge that’s been out there in the ether, but was never apparent to this obsessive BG3 power gamer. The Belm scimitar, obtainable in Act Three, isn’t just a fun callback to Baldur’s…
First reported by Eurogamer, Bethesda has publicly celebrated over four million players checking out its recently-launched remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Alongside Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8, the remaster has turned an otherwise-quiet April into boom times for RPG fans. Bethesda broke the news by tweeting the following message on X, “The Everything…
RoboCop: Rogue City fell a few steps short of great when it released in 2023, but it was a fun enough romp through dystopian Detroit and a vast improvement over Teyon’s (bad) Terminator game. So I was pleased to discover that it’s getting an expansion, which we’ve now found out will land in July. Titled…
Last week, my coworker, news writer Harvey Randall, wrote a 100% correct love letter to taking a single level of Baldur’s Gate 3’s new Hexblade in a multiclass build. Hexblade gets so much at level one—Charisma-based melee attacks, Shield on short rest, Booming Blade, easier critical hits—that almost any melee character could be improved with…
Many games try to stand out by combining ideas from one genre with systemsfrom another, leading to a lot of games on Steam having descriptions that follow the formula “A + B with C elements”. Upcoming survival game Autonomica represents the logical extreme of this approach, with a list of features so long it risks…
PC gamers may be going hog wild over the Oblivion remaster right now. But Bethesda’s RPG isn’t the only game involving people with uncanny faces to get a makeover this week. French publisher Microids just released a very shiny remake of its 1999 game Amerzone – The Explorer’s Legacy, the game that kicked off the…
The Long Dark has been in development for a long time. Hinterland’s chilly survival game launched into Steam early access way back in 2014, before formally releasing three years later. But the launch in 2017 only represented the completion of the game’s survival mode. The episodic story mode, titled “Wintermute”, has been grinding glacially forward…
Out with the old? Buying a new console on or close to its launch date (or, in some cases, at any point during its lifespan) can be exceptionally costly. It’s often a good option, then, to flog your current-gen console and get a discount off your next hardware purchase, especially if the new one is…
Some more Amiga news for you all, as we’ve just been given the heads up, that JOTD who was behind great conversions such as Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Super Bagman, Galaxian500, Pooyan, Super Xevious, and the upcoming Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja, has now turned his attention to the 1982 game of Burger Time. A new Amiga…