Our medium has a rich history that stretches far back into the days of DOS gaming, but the further back in time you go, the more it’s a pain to get these games running on modern systems. Even if I have the right media, what the hell am I supposed to do with a floppy…
Only a few months after most of the Warcraft Rumble team was laid off as all future development was canceled, a majority of the remaining workers therein and the Hearthstone team have voted to organize—joining over 1,900 Blizzard workers now in a union under the Communications Workers of America. As the CWA posted on their…
It might feel like there’s been a shedload of extraction shooters lately, but the genre still seems to crackle with untapped potential. Two heavy hitters—the reboot of Bungie’s venerable shooter Marathon and Embark’s fresh up-and-comer Arc Raiders—are nearly here, and both have had a chance to gear up with playtests. Speaking with PC Gamer US…
It’s no secret that parries are en vogue right now—they’ve broken their just containment in character action games and spectacle fighters and wormed their way into roguelikes, horror games, JRPGs, and FPSes, all while properly taking over the Soulslike in the wake of Sekiro. If you long for the simpler times back when enemies just…
Developed with clear affection for old-school titles like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Spindle marries pixel-perfect visuals with a surprisingly thoughtful narrative about mortality and meaning. But this isn’t your typical grim reaper tale. Here, Death wakes up in a broken world where no one can die, stripped of memory and…
Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: getting stuck into Battlefield 6, testing out weapons and all the new maps in the launch version. This week I’ve been: trying to unlock every weapon in Battlefield 6 before Season 1. It’s been almost four years since the last Battlefield game, 2042, and…
The worst thing I’ve ever read was this: “Just make sure you turn the music off before you start.” It was a throwaway forum post around the launch of Nightdive’s System Shock 2 remaster—advice given to a new player asking for tips before their first playthrough. Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member…
Celebrated Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu did not mince words when asked about his stance on using generative AI to make music in a recent interview with JASRAC Magazine. The technology’s experimental use in the arts has already seen the advent of AI “musicians” like The Velvet Sundown, and you might wonder whether a veteran…
Despite the success of Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online hasn’t quite lived up to its potential since bolting from the bounds of beta in mid-2019. That’s not to say it isn’t a good game. With the right mix of players on any populated server, Rockstar’s multiplayer cowboy crime sim is still up there…
Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun: Words of Vengeance originally launched as a stopgap/marketing gimmick to coincide with the announcement of Boltgun 2. But it appears to have gone down swimmingly with the Boltgun playerbase in its own right, having accrued a ‘Very Positive’ Steam rating out of 1,700 reviews. The 2.5D blaster’s free-to-play spinoff swaps out clicking…