It’s been 20-something years, and you’ve still got to gently guide Cloud by the hand so he doesn’t mess up his relationship with his childhood friend. Unlike Cloud, my flirting game has only improved since ’97 ⁽ᵒᵏᵃʸ ⁿᵒᵗ ʳᵉᵃˡˡʸ⁾, so I’m here to help with this FF7 Rebirth Tifa romance guide to land you that…
After releasing stylized racing games based on drifting, rallying, and Formula 1, Funselektor is heading off the track and into the wilderness with Over the Hill, an off-road driving and exploration game that sounds considerably more laid back than the studio’s previous releases. Over the Hill puts players behind the wheel of “iconic vehicles from…
Doom: The Dark Ages is a prequel preeminently focused on the ripping and tearing. At today’s Xbox Developer Direct, id Software brought us our lengthiest look at The Dark Ages to date, with an emphasis on what matters most to every Doom Slayer: How it’ll feel to shoot, smash, and otherwise pulp the demonic hordes…
Back in December 2022, I wrote in our Dwarf Fortress review that its Steam release is “a worthy revision of the legendary settlement sim.” And I stand by that. But there was something missing: The beloved Adventure Mode, which let Dwarf Fortress Classic players trade their mountainhome management for wandering the procedural world in traditional…
Doom: The Dark Ages has just about everything you’d expect in a Doom game. It’s got demons, it’s got guns, it’s got a huge guy who loves to rip and tear. The one thing it doesn’t have is multiplayer: Studio chief Marty Stratton said id Software decided to forego a multiplayer component so it could…
There’s one word that immediately strikes fear in every gamer’s heart: backlog. With endless games to play, it’s difficult to ignore the urge to pick up the latest multiplayer open-world RPG every couple of weeks, and games you purchased but never installed often end up lost in the dreaded backlog. When the latest first-person shooter…
GTA 6 had been a rumor for years—an inevitable rumor, considering that the last one made basically infinite money—but those murmurs were finally confirmed in December 2023, when Rockstar officially revealed Grand Theft Auto 6 to the world. And because nothing with GTA can be entirely uncomplicated, it was a reveal that came earlier than…
I finally finished Cyberpunk 2077 last night, and so today’s 2.21 patch is just a wee little bit annoying because CD Projekt has finally fixed a small but irritating bug in the Phantom Liberty expansion that forced me into a fight I really didn’t want. Minor spoiler follows, so skip this bit and scroll straight…
Cozy farm sim games just keep getting tinier these days. Small enough to dock to the bottom of your monitor like Rusty’s Retirement, and in the case of Tiny Garden, small enough to fit inside a Polly Pocket-looking little capsule toy. Inside its little globular world you’ve got space to cultivate a handful of plants…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut game from Montpelier studio Sandfall Interactive, was first revealed to us back in June 2024 with a wild trailer showing a turn-based RPG set in a world being slowly destroyed by a giant, unfathomable paintress. During today’s Xbox Developer Direct, we got another, longer look at the surreal RPG,…