Deadlock, the MOBA shooter that Valve would still like us to pretend hasn’t launched even as it receives major additions whose patch notes span pages of tastefully produced graphical treatments, has been drawing attention with its Old Gods, New Blood update. As of last week, Deadlock’s boasting an updated map, a new mode, all sorts…
Remember that Bloober Team countdown with the bizarre URL that kicked off at the end of 2025? It grew a little more elaborate today, with additional images and spooky vocalizing, and some old-time horror fans are hoping the studio is teasing a very unexpected remake of the controversial 2006 PlayStation 2 horror game Rule of…
I like the horse in Highguard. The biggest thrills you can find in that game are on horseback—galloping across plains, jumping off slopes, and blasting foes off their own horses as you circle each other like sharks. That only happens incidentally, though. At its heart, Highguard is a game about farming Vesper (money but blue)…
The Linux Foundation now has a succession plan for the day when Linux creator and main man Linus Torvalds either retires, or is no longer with us. The initiative came out of the Maintainers Summit held in December 2025, which ended with a session on continuity planning. One thing I’ll say about Linux people: they…
You died. Strangely. Now plz rate the experience. Game over screens — as a professional gamer, you understand — aren’t something that I personally have a lot of firsthand experience with. Not through a lack of in-game skill, that’s for sure. However, as I’m also a highly learned and incredibly hirsute scholar of the interactive…
Five unions representing Ubisoft employees in France have called for a “massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees” in response to the company’s recently-announced restructuring and return to office mandate. Ubisoft announced the overhaul of its studio structure last week, a process that includes the cancellation of six games in development (including the repeatedly-delayed Prince…
I’ll confess that when Capcom announced its multi-patch performance improvement plan for Monster Hunter Wilds, I was skeptical about just how much it would accomplish—especially when the first of the regimen’s updates delivered the same mixed results as Capcom’s previous attempts to address Wilds’ technical woes. The early details for this month’s PC-specific follow-up patch,…
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is a good game. I said it and I stand by it. Its biggest problem, as PC Gamer’s Toreador-in-the-streets, Venture-in-the-sheets Joshua Wolens so accurately put it, is the title: Calling it Bloodlines 2, rather than anything else that would safely distance it from the legendary original, was a massive self-inflicted…
I couldn’t have a higher opinion of the Fatal Frame games, but I wouldn’t say I have a tremendous amount of fun playing them. I enjoy and endure, I suppose, while occasionally yelping like a puppy and noping out of entering a particularly creepy room or opening a creaky door. These games can be as…
I’ve never felt more kinship with a silent protagonist than in Code Vein 2. Just like being stuck with someone rambling all about the Definitely Interesting details of their job, there my little make-a-me was in the early hours of the game, listening to a giant goth mom monologue a string of proper nouns—something like…