November 24, 2025

Another year on this godforsaken rock is grinding to a close, and you know what that means: award season! The Golden Joysticks just wrapped up, The Game Awards are coming, and to kill some time in between you can now nominate your games of choice for the 2025 Steam Awards. I’d actually wondered how Steam…

It’s been well established on this website that Battlefield 6’s transport jeep is an abomination. Not only is the Light Ground Transport (LGT) bad at its only job of safely transporting players from A to B, but despite its high mobility and machinegun nest, its lack of armor plating means your chance of survival goes…

It’s obvious a ton of work has gone into fantasy sim Tavern Keeper, from the intricate and often hilarious animations of the patrons and staff to the flexible and easy-to-learn item design tools to the fully-narrated interludes that make your pub feel like it’s part of a storybook adventure. Tavern Keeper arrived on Steam in…

The PC is still the center of innovation in gaming, according to Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games, which is known for long-running, esoteric space MMO EVE Online. “I think most of the innovation in gaming has happened on PC, to some extent on mobile, just because of sheer volume,” Pétursson told me at…

The 2025 Steam Fall Sale popped a couple months earlier than usual for the simple reason that in every previous year, it fell too damn close to the Steam Winter Sale. The two big seasonal sales were separated, literally, by just a couple weeks: The 2024 Fall Sale wrapped up on December 4, and the…

In the latest Windows Insider beta update released November 21, Microsoft announced the arrival of its full-screen Xbox experience for laptops and desktops alongside a number of other new features and fixes big and small, with one particular area of change catching my eye: what it’s doing with File Explorer. “We’re exploring preloading File Explorer…

Gift of the Gab might just be the most annoying thing you’ll find in Where Winds Meet. Well, apart from those pesky geese, that is. It’s likely that you’ll stumble upon this minigame before seeing the proper tutorial for it. Even after the tutorial, it’s frustrating trying to actually win a match until you unlock…

Where Winds Meet likes its puzzles just as much as its minigames and AI chatbots, with plenty dotted about Qinghe, Kaifeng, and beyond. One early headscratcher is found in the Northern Vow Ruins during the Echoes of Old Battles quest, asking you to solve the puzzle on the wall before you can wrap things up…

Voice actor Erika Ishii appeared in no fewer than four videogames in 2025, including Ghost of Yotei, which was in the running for Ultimate Game of the Year at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards. Ghost of Yotei also earned Ishii a personal Golden Joystick nom, for Best Performance. And when they were asked on the…