Some people have a great fondness for working in an office. I am not one of them; I consider normalizing work from home the only silver lining of Covid-19. When the pandemic initially sent entire corporate industries home, there was a flurry of experimentation in using games not just as hangout spaces, but online meeting…
I have a feeling that someone, somewhere is trying to get every ounce of value they can out of a prop rental for a set of four comically oversized manacles. That’s the only explanation I’ve landed on for why Chained Together, an ultra-hard co-op platformer about four characters being, well, chained together, is getting a…
Arc Raiders players have torn through the game like a pack of ravenous, apricot-devouring hyenas in the three weeks since launch. Steam achievement data shows that 39% of players have earned more than 1 million in loot value, and 16.5% have safely descended the elevator and/or subway back to Speranza more than 100 times. Embark…
In ‘chaotic cooking roguelike’ Omelet You Cook, you prepare breakfast for picky customers as ingredients speed along a conveyor belt. It’s a delightfully unhinged cooking sim that launched back in June with charming low-fi looks, a challenging cooking system, and the threat of a massive angry chicken named Principal Clucker who will fire you if…
I miss the days when TV, movies and advertising were aware that videogames existed, but found them so impossible to understand that they represented them in only the most baffling of ways. A Doom 2 arcade cabinet; tightening up the graphics on level 3; “somebody’s playing for real.” Those were the good times, it turns…
Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, approximately 40% of whom are under 13 years of age. The news was announced by the company’s chief safety officer, Matt Kaufman, who…
Tanks for the memories. Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives series is back with another cabinet classic on Switch 2. I got to check out Jet Ski racer Aqua Jet back in August, which was a lovingly crafted port. This time I’m revisiting the destructive tank combat of Namco’s Tokyo Wars, which served as inspiration for The…
Category: Games November 19, 2025 How Friendship and Duality Are at the Heart of SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Lillian Salvadori, Marketing Manager, SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Summary SpongeBob and Patrick are longtime BFFs, but strikingly opposite in their approach to challenges. While SpongeBob is an agile karate king, Patrick can manipulate…
Category: Games November 19, 2025 Building a Vibe: The Making of Delta Force’s Newest Map, Monument Joe Meng, PR & Communications Manager, Team Jade Delta Force has been out on Xbox Series X|S for a little more than three months. Available for free, the game provides three distinctive modes for players of various taste palette:…
Half-Life 3 fever has been running hot this week, for reasons—and I use that term loosely—we laid out here, which can very generally be described as “it’s November and we’re all a little bored and restless.” One small bit of pseudo-evidence did catch my eye, though: As PC Gamer’s freest man Tyler Wilde noted, “Geoff…