It’d be rune not to. Rune Factory’s first entry arrived to a welcoming fanbase almost 20 years ago, and players have signed on for the adventures of a string of amnesiac protagonists, equal parts fighter and farmer, ever since. Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma delivers on the promise of the series with another hero mysteriously…
I’ve been spooked by plenty of pixel-art horror games, like Signalis or Look Outside. But I can’t think of an FMV game that’s truly frightened me. The bit in The 7th Guest where hands try to come out of the painting seemed eerie when I was a kid, but now it’s pure kitsch. Watching the…
The perfect start to your Wordle week is right here. Spend a while with our tips if you’d like to give your daily guesses a bit of polish, or take a look at the June 2 (1444) clue if you’d rather read something more specific. It’ll help, promise. The answer to today’s Wordle is only…
3D printing has been revolutionary for the world of at-home miniatures bashing and terrain building… but we’re entering what I can only imagine is the endgame of that growth and this is my evidence: Behold, Czech Dungeons & Dragons group Bez Zástěny has created a 7.5 foot tall, 130 pound (90 cm, 60 kg) model…
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…
Though we preferred TIE Fighter when it came to listing the best Star Wars games on PC, we did rate X-Wing quite highly on one important metric: it lets you fly a bloody X-Wing. The fantasy of flying to the rescue when a guy with a codename like Red Two shouts “I can’t shake him!”…
Apple’s 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC,is just a couple weeks away. Like every year previous, it sounds like Apple is going to squeeze gaming into its software announcements. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to unveil a “dedicated gaming app” that “will serve as a launcher for titles and centralize in-game achievements,…
In a new video about hidden or poorly explained Elden Ring Nightreign character mechanics, FromSoft LoreTuber-in-Chief VaatiVidya revealed that the new game’s default, John DarkSouls character, Wylder, actually has some fighting game-worthy combos and movement tech. The tricks were first outlined months ago during Nightreign’s network test by user OnslaughtCasualty42 on the FromSoftware subreddit. In…
Sebastian Wojciechowski, People Can Fly CEO, shared some disheartening news in an announcement on LinkedIn on Sunday. Not only is the studio indefinitely suspending two games it had in development, it is also scaling down its staff. Both are the result of negotiations with a publisher falling through and a lack of adequate resources and…
You might not have much time to take in the atmosphere in Elden Ring Nightreign while you’re speedrunning between boss fights, but more attention and detail was put into the world design than you might expect for a spin-off game that reuses so many assets from the 2022 hit. FromSoftware Environmental Artist Saori Mizuno dug…