April 2, 2026

Before a career second act at Nightdive Studios, the recently-retired Larry Kuperman‘s big project was Impulse. It was to be GameStop’s answer to Steam, but it went the way of the dodo in 2014. Kuperman went into his personal history building up Impulse’s catalogue when we spoke at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Kuperman came…

Last month, Slay the Spire 2’s controversial first beta balance patch inspired a massive backlash from its Steam reviewers, drawing over 9,000 negative reviews in the following 24 hours. In an interview with PC Gamer, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano said the intensity of the feedback rattled some of the studio’s newer developers—but he wasn’t…

This is April 2, which means April Fool’s is over and we can put the whole thing behind us until 2027. Except, well, this was just now brought to my attention, and I must insist you bear witness to it. Because this is The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical. “Experience Warhammer like you’ve never…

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Extracted a purple sniper rifle from a Marathon run, then promptly lost it to a knife rush. When I heard Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 was back in the limelight thanks to an unusually steep $6 sale on Steam, I wasn’t too surprised. Infinity Ward’s…

Linux is something that has been on our minds, and honestly on our gaming PCs quite extensively over the past few months. Since Valve dropped it into the Steam Deck, and Proton became the way forward for gaming on Linux distros the world over, there has been increased interest in the open source operating system….

Larry Kuperman made his mark on the industry as part of the team at Nightdive, the games preservation and remaster specialists, but before that, he was on the front line of the digital distribution wars from the early 2000s to 2013. He helped build up the online storefront, Impulse, which was later acquired (and ultimately…

A few of my coworkers might yell at me for saying so, but I’m calling this good news. Otherside Entertainment says it’s taking a “new direction” with Thick as Thieves, the multiplayer first-person stealth game it announced in 2024: Instead of being a four-player competitive multiplayer game mixing humans and AI enemies as it was…

In an interview with PC Gamer, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano shared three mysterious plans for new modes that Slay the Spire 2 could see during the next year or two of planned early access development. The roguelike card game is already bigger than its predecessor—the co-op mode alone is a major addition for what…