There are plenty of upcoming games to be excited about as the new year approaches, and one of my most anticipated games is Mindwave, a madcap indie minigame-fest in the style of WarioWare. There’s no release window yet, but a recent Kickstarter update dropped on Dec. 28 alongside a new trailer that had me perplexed…
River City Ransom is a venerable name in the beat ’em up space, going all the way back to Nintendo Entertainment System, and there have been plenty of River City games (or Kunio-kun, by its original title) in the meantime. Underground may not have been the most popular game in the series, but if you…
River City Ransom is a venerable name in the beat ’em up space, going all the way back to Nintendo Entertainment System, and there have been plenty of River City games (or Kunio-kun, by its original title) in the meantime. Underground may not have been the most popular game in the series, but if you…
World of Warcraft finally has player housing and for the last few weeks my social media feeds have been full of people showing off their creations. People are busy making cave systems and palaces that I would never have the patience to put together. One person is just making Star Wars stuff, because any time…
Another day, another freebie. There’s been a new free game on the Epic Games Store each day since December 18 for the holidays, and today’s deal is a four-in-one: the Trine Classic Collection. Not only that, but each game in the collection has been updated so a cross-platform co-op game between a Steam user and…
In case you haven’t heard, multiplayer shooters are undergoing a vibe shift—as PC Gamer’s Morgan Park outlined in that article, 2025 met players with a number of games that forego brutal competition in favor of more approachable, chaotic, casual-friendly shooting. It seems like players are eager to embrace the new order, as two decidedly chill…
Who runs the world? Girl(bug)s! If you haven’t yet made it to the end of Hollow Knight: Silksong — one of our favourite games of 2025 — then be warned, there are major spoilers for the entirety of the game below… Many insects are matriarchal creatures. For termites, honey bees, praying mantises, ants, and spiders…
When it comes to GPUs and graphics technology, I know what I’d like to see in 2026. Super-modern processors that are a substantial leap forward in terms of performance, capabilities, and affordability. We won’t get that, of course, because we didn’t get that this year. Or last year. But there is something GPU-related that can…
If there’s a single throughline for the PC gaming year that was 2025, it’s finally accepting that the pursuit of fancy graphics just doesn’t make sense anymore. Tech has hit a hard graphics plateau: raw generational updates are now nuanced upgrades measured in single-digit frame gains rather than evolutions anyone with eyes can appreciate, and…
You may think that you need to keep gaming as a tightly restricted hobby, something you pull out only once in a while to avoid losing yourself in the game. This is far from the truth. While limits on actual playing (particularly if you’re playing online casino games) are essential, the fact is you can…