I recently watched the Netflix documentary Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee, and it’s one of the craziest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve written about McAfee (who died in 2021) a few times over the years, and knew a few things about his chaotic and at times outright…
PC Gamer’s Morgan Park had a rough night in Marathon a couple days ago. He initially attributed it to a run of bad luck—everyone has an off night now and then, after all—but noticed a lot of other people having similar struggles, many of whom pointed the finger at something else: noise. Silence is golden…
In his talk at this year’s GDC, Arc Raiders production director Caio Braga said Embark’s breakout extraction shooter hit emerged from a development cycle involving multiple massive directional pivots—points where many other game productions would have been cancelled. In a post-talk interview with PC Gamer, Braga said the high profile live service launch failures that…
In Act 1 of Slay the Spire 2, Vantom is the toughest of the three bosses you can encounter. It’s a bit of a roadblock in your journey, particularly if you’re a new player, but don’t be tempted to rage-quit and restart your run when you see his icon on the top of your map!…
The Doormaker in Slay the Spire 2 is a multi-stage boss fight in Act Three that’s pretty frustrating to deal with. Unlike most enemies, the Doormaker is reluctant to stand and fight you head-on. You can’t attack it right away, and instead have to take down an enemy before you ever get a chance to…
When you come across the Byrdonis Egg in Slay the Spire 2 for the first time, it’s a little confusing. It might not look like much at first glance, but this little egg can end up being one of the most helpful additions to your deck. It does come with a small downside in the…
In a talk at the Game Developers Conference, Obsidian senior systems designer Robert Donovan spoke about dialing in the difficulty of The Outer Worlds 2—a great game you ought to play—but one I found to have a particularly noticable reverse difficulty curve. Instead of the challenges ramping up as you get more familiar with the…
Disco Elysium was a singular experience when it dropped in 2019. There was really just nothing else like it: Most people who wanted to compare it to something reached back to Black Isle’s 1999 masterwork Planescape: Torment, because such intricate, hyper-verbose RPGs that work so well are genuine rarities. That’s less the case these days:…
Do you tire of the daily battle against gravity? Are you ready to at last forsake all earthly concerns, and commit yourself forever to the shadows dancing on the wall of your electric cave? Then allow me to present the Electric Gaming Bed 2, a new pinnacle of dire hedonism unveiled earlier this week by…
Composer Inon Zur has worked on hundreds of games across nearly three decades in the industry, though is perhaps best-known for his Bethesda scores: He composed the main themes and scores for Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas, and most recently Starfield. Zur has given a new interview to RPG Site in which he says,…