2025

City of Heroes is one of my favourite games, and I’ve played enough MMOs to have very specific opinions on quest journals. I actually interviewed the hardworking fans behind its officially-sanctioned private server, Homecoming, and three of its original developers who were there for its shutdown. It’s still unmatched as an MMORPG, and I desperately…

Starbreeze rolled out a new subscription service for Payday 2 DLC yesterday, which struck me as a pretty good deal: $5 per month for every piece of DLC currently available, and you can subscribe and cancel as you see fit. But the launch turned a less-than-flattering spotlight on another recent Payday 2 development: A significant…

If you’re a fan of farming simulators and cosy games, then Puffpals: Island Skies has probably come up on your radar at some point over the last few years. This sweet, Animal Crossing-esque farming simulator being developed by plushie company Fluffnest was originally announced on April 6, 2022 with a Kickstarter project launched the following…

If you’ve bought a gaming PC, or even thought about buying a gaming PC in the last year or so, there’s a good chance you’ve seen them labelled as AI PCs. Turns out the desire for AI is lower than we might have thought, if recent Intel reports prove true. According to Digitimes (machine translated),…

Gaming is an expensive hobby. I mean, don’t get me started on how much you’re expected to shell out for even middling rig upgrades these days, or how full-price game releases are now asking for $70 of your hard-earned cash. In such a landscape, with console prices going up instead of down over time, is…