Despite my love for management sims and all my best intentions when playing them, something always ends up going wrong. The real game isn’t to see how long I can keep the charade up, but how much I can manage to get done within the relatively short window of peace before everything goes to Hell….
“30- recounts the PS1’s journey to the top, blow by blow”. PlayStation launched in North America 30 years ago today, and a new book is aiming to celebrate the 32-bit console’s amazing legacy. Penned by seasoned journalist Jeremy Parish, -30- | A PlayStation Retrospective will come “packed with commentary about the system’s biggest and most…
Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: planning builds for every single skill tree in Borderlands 4, hoping it would help me pick a character, but actually leaving me more conflicted. After much deliberation, I think I’ve settled on Harlowe. No, wait, Rafa? This week I’ve been: growing ever ravenous as…
Final Fantasy 14, as we’ve often observed on this very site, has a bit of a design problem when it comes to its jobs—they’re pretty stale. Tanks mostly play the same, healers get like two damage buttons, DPS all try to shove their buttons into the same two-minute window: It’s a little droll. For a…
Word on the street is that Marvel Rivals has plans for loot boxes after a dataminer uncovered evidence of mystery box logic while trawling Season 4’s files. There’s no official confirmation yet, but the speculation is enough to divide players. “Loot boxes could be coming to Marvel Rivals at some point in the future,” RivalsInfo…
On September 9, 1999, the Sega Dreamcast launched in North America and forever changed the gaming landscape. More than two decades later, the Dreamcast is still alive thanks to indie developers who continue to create new titles and thanks to publishers like VGNYsoft, who are still producing them on physical media. To celebrate the system’s 26th birthday, VGNYsoft is…
Silksong’s getting its first patch next week—with a playable beta branch already available on Steam, and while there’s the usual bug-fixes, one adjustment seems super interesting: Silksong’s early game is going to get easier. Well, a little bit. As the patch notes linked above read, there’ll be a “Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses…
Silksong making a mockery of you? Are you gnashing your teeth, clenching your fists, almost snapping the controller in two as Moorwing reduces you to a thin red paste for the 78th time (there’s a skip for that, you know)? Why not bring a pal? Just to be clear: it won’t actually help. They’ll just…
It might be proving too much for some. Team Cherry has announced the first patch for Hollow Knight: Silksong, bringing a solid selection of fixes and improvements to the newly-released game (thanks, Eurogamer). Due for launch “mid next week”, one key aspect of the patch is that it will actually nerf the game’s difficulty in…
I’m not sure why I played so much Pinball on my Windows machine as a child. Nor am I sure why it was given so many different names, like Space Cadet 3D Pinball, 3D Pinball for Windows, Microsoft 3D Pinball, etc. What I do know, however, is it ran great on my old Windows NT…