Hands up if you’ve ever thought the following: “Sure, Elden Ring is pretty great, but what it really needs is the mournful, silent creature I’m fighting to say something FromSoft didn’t write like ‘come at me, ye tarnished dickhead’” during a tense encounter. If you do have your hand raised, I imagine you likely already…
Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise is, as Andy Chalk wrote last year, “clearly a game with something to say”. The deckbuilding RPG is particularly interested in the rich and powerful, and getting revenge on the billionaires destroying the world. It’s deeply anti-capitalist and political, but developer Speculative Agency received funding from Microsoft, which puts it…
The idea that World of Warcraft was ever light on quests sounds like blasphemy at this point. Why would you ever make a game about killing seven wolves not because an NPC asked you to but just for the fun of it? But that’s how MMOs like Everquest worked back then, and it’s how the…
I loved Subnautica, and I could not have cared less about Subnautica’s base-building. For me, it was all about exploration, discovery, the horrors of the black depths, and the sweet relief of escape to the warm, well-lit shallows. I built what I needed to get by, but honestly my base was utterly basic: As George…
After a few years of lapsed subscription, Midnight’s launch has lured me back into World of Warcraft. But as someone who works from home, the thing I want most at the end of the day is an escape from my desk, keyboard, and mouse—an impulse that can cut down on my prime dwarf shaman hours….
Heart’s not in it. Accessory manufacturer Anbernic is perhaps best known for its work in the retro handheld space, pumping out new emulation devices at a rate I’ve frankly struggled to keep up with. Rarely does it branch out into the realm of controllers, but when it does, it’s safe to say that the results…
Category: Games March 12, 2026 Reframed: How the Fatal Frame II Remake Scared Its Way Through Development Hidehiko Nakajima (director of gameplay) and Makoto Shibata (director of story), Team Ninja Summary The directors of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake discuss bringing this Japanese horror classic to life. This remake is updated with enhanced graphics,…
Resident Evil Requiem is now and likely will, forever, be in the forefront of my mind. I’d set my hopes so high I really didn’t think Capcom could manage the monumental task of meeting them, and yet here we are with the best modern RE game yet. I feel truly spoilt. As you can probably…
Prices are getting a little out of hand for graphics cards at the moment, but some are affected more than others. While you do have to pay over the odds for the PNY RTX 5070 Ti OC, no more so than most high-end Nvidia graphics cards today, and a good deal less than some. It’s…
One of my biggest regrets over the last year is not picking up more hardware before the memory crisis, yet it turns out even thinking ahead may not save you. One customer bought a DDR5 memory kit back in 2024, and upon finding it (broken?), now they’ve been offered its worth… from 2024. As covered…