Sometimes, magical things happen when games studios go outside of their wheelhouse. Without Creative Assembly getting experimental, we wouldn’t have the terrifying Alien Isolation. And with Rusty Rabbit, renowned visual novel studio Nitro Plus is branching out in an unusual direction, seemingly blending its knack for storytelling with a cute 2D mascot platformer. One starring…
Is Steam bigger than the Beatles, or Jesus, for that matter? I’m not qualified to answer that, but Valve’s ubiquitous PC gaming platform is definitely bigger than Uzbekistan. As spotted by Blue’s News, Steam surged past 40 million concurrent users for the very first time today. Steam broke the 39 million concurrents barrier back in…
Sometimes, you just gotta go fast; feel that virtual wind in your hair as you launch yourself at the speed of sound through an abstract playground. The Local—a (mostly) free multiplayer speedster sandbox from Aussie solo dev JINC—understands the joy of moving absurdly quick in bizarre, physics-defying ways, and pairs it with the constant, sphincter-clenching…
Nothing stings like betrayal, which is why Firefox users are furious with Mozilla after a controversial update to the developer’s Terms of Use last week. Mozilla is scrambling to smooth things over, but the damage may already be done for many former fans of Firefox. Last Wednesday, Mozilla released a “Terms of Use” document for…
Our picks for the best eShop games of February. Goodbye February, hello March! And an even bigger hello to eShop Selects. We’re one month closer to the Switch 2’s big bonanza, but hey, let’s not get too ahead of ourselves yet. We’ve still got a fresh and full eShop on the Switch to go through….
Over a decade enjoying Eldensoulsborne games should have cured me of any pride or hubris. Alas, I am an imperfect vessel. Monster Hunter’s combat, which I once wrongly assumed would come easily to me with my Souls-lover badge in hand, has always thwarted me, dooming me to forever watch my friends battle their dinosaurs without…
Oh joy of joys, if you loved the 1984 game of Tetris or the 1989 game of Columns , you’ll be pleased to know a brand new puzzle overhaul of Tetris 2 by František Fuka has been released for the ZX Spectrum. This excellent game that was originally released for the ZX Spectrum in 1990, …
‘Lethal Company clone’ is one of the three remaining genres that now encompass the entirety of Steam, the other two being ‘Vampire Survivors clone’ and ‘hentai’. Most of these games briefly clog up the new releases tab before being replaced by yet more cooperative, autobattling horror porn (the first person who develops that game will…
Along with some Switch “performance improvements”. Following the release of WARRIORS: Abyss in February, Koei Tecmo has announced a “March update” adding another character to the game and much more. One other highlight is “performance improvements” for the Nintendo Switch version of the game and apart from this are bug fixes and various other adjustments….
Creative Assembly has outlined its plans for Total War: Warhammer 3’s next patch, and it seems the mid-March update will see a slight change in direction for how the studio approaches updating its fantasy strategy mashup. Patch 6.1 will bring a renewed focus on tuning what’s already in the game rather than adding more stuff…