MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it’s bad. This time 15 years ago, I was a staunch Battlefield guy who had every Call of Duty rebuke memorized. My beloved…
When I finished my first session of Nox Mortalis’ astoundingly long and open-ended demo, I was convinced it had missed the mark: Too obtuse and unforgiving. Melee combat that was spotty at best, with an overreliance on an aggravating parry mechanic. I get not having a map, but no compass in this open world game?…
Six years after BioShock 4 was first confirmed, it is not going well: Bloomberg said last week that the game had failed a recent development review, leading to the removal of studio head Kelley Gilmore and shift of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role, and a planned overhaul of parts of…
I am fully on board with the year of the ninja. A month ago I was pleading with my PC Gamer colleagues to consider Ninja Gaiden 2 Black for this year’s Top 100 list of the finest computer games to play right now; I’ve played dozens of hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows for the stealth…
Category: Games August 7, 2025 Become One with the Ninja: Unpacking Ninja Gaiden 4’s Deep, Immersive Allure Yamaguchi Sebastian, Xbox Wire Japan Summary Walk through the experience of playing the first 3 chapters of Ninja Gaiden 4 with its Director and Producer Yuji Nakao. Dive deeper into the game’s mechanics and playability, now refreshed with…
I’ve been hooked on Hell Clock since it was released last month. Few games nail what I want out of a loot-driven action RPG like Diablo, and Hell Clock pulls it off while also having the roguelike-driven improvisation of games like Hades. Hell Clock is a game that wants you to break it, and its…
Balatro is beginning to seem like less of a game and more like an all-encompassing cosmic force that stretches along inscrutable dimensions until everything is folded within it and reshaped into clowns, cards, and hypnotic chillwave. Today, we have yet more evidence thanks to new crossover content for Rusty’s Retirement, the delightful robotic farming idler…
One year after surprise-launching Doom + Doom 2, id Software and Nightdive have done it again—this time with the classic fantasy shooters Heretic and Hexen, which have been bundled together and updated with performance improvements, an “enhanced” soundtrack by Andrew Hulshult, local and online multiplayer, built-in mod support, and more. The new Heretic + Hexen…
There are those games I fondly remember from my school days, and then there are those games I remember being a problem from my school days. Castle Crashers, first released on the Xbox 360 in August 2008, was nearly one of the latter. It took over my college apartment for at least a month, with…
AI is supposed to be helpful, honest, and most importantly, harmless, but we’ve seen plenty of evidence that its behavior can become horribly inaccurate, flat-out deceptive, and even downright evil. (Yes, that last link is the MechaHitler thing.) If you think I’m being hyperbolic by using the word “evil,” I’m not: a new paper on…