Dead Space, along with so much sci-fi horror, probably wouldn’t exist without Alien. Ridley Scott set the bar high, and for close to 50 years the xenomorph’s first outing has informed what people want and expect from their cosmic nightmares. So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Dead Space creator and…
I check for SteamOS update announcements almost every day, and I can’t remember the last time there’s been one as expansive as this. The September 9 Steam Deck client update—the most recent SteamOS update to release via the stable channel—lists 31 general changes, the majority of these being fixes. That’s not even including the bunch…
I’ve been getting back into detective games recently, and musing about potentially reinstalling Return of the Obra Dinn, a game with a dithered art style that would look fantastic on an e-paper panel. Trouble is, those e-reader-style displays are notoriously slow to refresh, right? Wrong, according to the makers of the Modos Paper Monitor and…
Braving The Mist for the first time in Hollow Knight: Silksong is a confusing experience. Where all other areas have clear routes and maps, The Mist is ever-shifting and changes structure each time you venture in. You’ll have to contend with silk-stealing ghosts, traps galore, and tricky platforming to make it to the other side—that’s…
Game codes are a big deal these days. From Roblox experiences to the latest gacha hits, all kinds of games now accept limited-time codes that unlock free stuff, if you know what they are. You could spend hours each week hunting down the newest game codes for premium currency and other rewards—or you can just…
Red Dead Redemption 2 put an absurd amount of work into making its horses as realistic as possible—thousands of animations, tons of research, testicle physics—and I’m about to undo all of that by turning them into Umamusume: Pretty Derby anime horse girls. That’s thanks to the (frankly heroic) work of JohnTanner1899, who’s been slowly trickling…
Job hunting is miserable. In fact, perhaps the only thing keeping the motor of modern capitalism chugging is that it’s marginally more miserable than working, and even games industry paragons have had to undergo the humiliating ritual of sifting through stacks of rejection letters from jobs they didn’t really want in the first place. Like…
There’s a very specific moment in Little Nightmares III that encapsulates the game so perfectly that it sticks with me long after I’ve finished my hands-on. Bandai Namco’s demo, ahead of the game’s PS5 and PS4 release on October 10, knew exactly what it was doing. Picture the scene: I’ve assumed the pigtailed Alone, partner…
You can’t fault AMD for its honesty. Not when it is unambiguously, almost proudly, admitting that it charges more for its CPUs than Intel. At the Communicopia+ Technology Conference held recently by the high-status bean counters at Goldman Sachs, AMD’s Executive VP & GM of Data Center Solutions Business Unit, Forrest Norrod, was remarkably frank…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Playing Silksong, preparing to play Borderlands 4, and likely upsetting you because I put your favourite game at the wrong spot on this list. A thousand apologies. Last week I was: Thinking too much about Borderlands 4’s story, and being proven wrong by FF14’s…