April 2025

I had not realised that carkour—the theoretical act of performing parkour with a car—was something I wanted to exist until approximately 40 minutes ago, and now it has somersaulted to the summit of my own hierarchy of needs. Stuff all that nonsense about esteem and self-actualisation. I want to do backflips in a hot-rod. You…

Bethesda and Nightdive Studios’ remaster of Doom + Doom 2 was not just an excellent overhaul of the legendary FPS and its sequel, it brought together all of vanilla Doom’s additional adventures under one cracked, pentagram-scrawled roof. Alongside the two base games, it included the master levels for Doom II, the two halves of Final…

It is a tradition well-regarded that PC gaming’s long-standing FPS Doom be ported to every new piece of hardware that could, even vaguely conceivably, run it. Last year, id Software surprise-dropped an updated Doom and Doom 2 as a collection, one that runs on modern hardware and has been pretty well-received. To wit, Limited Run…

In mid-February, the pretty dang buggy PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 got upgraded to Verified status on the Steam Deck. It was a few weeks after its first major patch, which brought some badly-needed stability and UI fixes, as well as auto-save backups. Players were skeptical, to put it simply, because it just barely…

In March, SCS Software dropped a mysterious teaser for American Truck Simulator: the sound of a revving engine that didn’t quite have the full-throated roar of a big rig. It sounded more like what we call a ute in Australia and and New Zealand and the rest of the English-speaking world probably knows as a…

You want a sassy pitch for an upcoming game? Heroes of Valor is, per publisher Iceberg Interactive’s press release, “the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play.” Clearly, it kind of is: It wears its inspiration on its sleeve as a spiritual successor to the now decade-dead free-to-play shooter. It also has a (free) playtest running…

Take a look at today’s Wordle clue if you’d like to give your puzzle solving a bit of direction without spoiling all of your fun. Bring it out early to get your game off to a great start, or save it for later when those yellow letters might feel more like a problem than part…

As reported by AV Club, actor Nicky Katt has died at age 54 of an unspecified cause. While he’s better-known to most for a portfolio full of character actor roles, often as a jerk or bully or outright villain in movies like Dazed and Confused, Strange Days, SubUrbia, Boiler Room, School of Rock, The Limey,…