Time was, videogames let you just kill whoever. Plucky sidekick, love interest, authoritarian father figure, plot-critical NPC—all these and more were fodder to a sufficiently trigger-happy player. The best games to ever do it were, I reckon, Fallout: New Vegas and The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. The former was designed to adjust the plot whenever…
Retro Dot Cards recently shared some footage of the games on social media. Several new homebrew titles are currently in development for the Game Boy Advance’s e-Reader, from the developer Matt Greer (better known online as Retro Dot Cards). The Game Boy Advance e-Reader, in case you’ve never heard of it, was essentially a large…
Ubisoft has announced a “new era” for Rainbow Six Siege, which will apparently begin in March with a showcase devoted to the relaunch-slash-reboot of the game as Rainbow Six Siege X. “The R6 team has been working tirelessly to bring to life the biggest transformation in the game’s history,” reads Ubisoft’s announcement post, “and its…
Expects minimal financial impact. Earlier this month, the current U.S. administration implemented an additional 10% tariff on all goods imported into the country from China. While the full effect of this increase is yet to be seen, it poses a potential price hike for consoles and accessories developed in China, which, naturally, is a cause…
Change often happens very slowly and in the case of Windows Explorer being all sluggish and laggy when dealing with OneDrive files, that problem seems to have been around since the dawn of the dinosaurs. But at long last, in a small Windows beta update, Microsoft has apparently finally solved the issue. The update in…
My first 15 hours in the Living Lands were a bit of a blundering affair. The game’s progression doesn’t pigeonhole you into any particular class path, and each time you level up you can pick abilities from Fighter, Ranger, and Wizard pools. Within each path, certain abilities and upgrades of existing ones require you to…
World of Warcraft: The War Within has been collecting dust in my digital library (and a bit of subscription money, oops). Not for any particular reason, I’ve actually rather enjoyed myself—it’s just that I happen to be a games journalist, and as such I have to keep up with a lot of different games for…
Hello! I’m Oli, the game director at Kaizen Game Works, the creators of Paradise Killer. I’m thrilled to announce that the playable demo for our new open world mascot management crime drama, Promise Mascot Agency, is out today on PS5! Play Video We’ve spent a long time working on this game, and the whole team…
No good thing ever dies, Stephen King once wrote, and while he was talking about hope, the saying could well be applied to the hugely popular ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books from the 1980/1990s. That’s because one person has decided to revisit the magic of those books and old-school text-based RPGs, by inventing a bespoke…
My kingdom for a gaming handheld with better battery life. Well, other than the MSI Claw 8 AI+ and Asus ROG Ally X. I mean one I actually own, like my Steam Deck. But today I rejoice, for Valve’s latest Beta client update for the Deck is said to improve battery life. When the Steam…