Pokémon-inspired creature collectors are an ouroboros, and it’s just taken another bite of its own tail. During today’s Triple-I Initiative showcase, Crema Games—developers of Temtem, one of the more successful Pokémon-likes on Steam—revealed Temtem: Pioneers, “an ambitious open-world survival crafting adventure” where players can collect, battle, and build alongside a team of tameable creatures. It’s…
Is there nothing sacred? Are all things destined to be consumed by AI slop? Apparently so, for now even Valve is turning to the artificial side with reports of references to “SteamGPT” appearing in the company’s source code. The end, verily, is nigh, no doubt courtesy of life imitating Valve’s murderously passive-aggressive Portal game art….
At this point what isn’t in Fortnite? Godzilla in Jordans? Check. Our favourite virtual popstar Hatsune Miku? That would be a yes. So I’m never really surprised when I see a new collab announced for Fortnite, and the latest Toy Story crossover is no exception to that. Teased in a short video that Fortnite shared…
Some game premises are so wonderfully ridiculous you can’t help but get on board. Wanderburg essentially asks the question: ‘what if it was medieval times, but every building had wheels?’ Perfect, no notes. Into this world of rolling stonework trundles my little castle, equipped with a few archers at the battlements and some cannons jutting…
Ursula K. Le Guin once said, “Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.” Sci-fi is about today as much as it’s about tomorrow, and behind all its clones and aliens and time machines are metaphors for the times those stories were written in. Looking back at 1000xResist, the first game from indie studio Sunset…
Many AI proponents tout the tech for its potential to streamline complex tasks in the workplace, thereby boosting efficiency and productivity for humans. Unfortunately, recent research from Gartner suggests that’s far from the norm in practice. It turns out that one in five projects attempting to inject AI into IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) fail,…
It was just over a month ago that Windrose Crew asked for more time to cook on their upcoming pirate survival game Windrose, because despite rolling out a new trailer they just weren’t ready to announce a release date. But that was then and this is now, and now, courtesy of an appearance at today’s…
Crimson Desert, a game about simulating a large Scottish man and his friends and sometimes their adventures in space, is pretty weird. Depending on which precise member of the PC Gamer editorial staff you ask, that’s either high praise or venomous criticism (I’m neutral—the game runs terribly on my machine, so I’ve not played much…
We know the trope of the cozy life sim: you’ve inherited a tumbledown farmhouse from a distant relative and need to grow crops, make friends with the locals, and restore the farm to its former glory. That’s not quite the case in Crop, the “gritty farming simulator” developer Carbonara Games described to me as “Stardew…
Features ‘Spica Adventure’ & ‘Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III’. Taito and ININ Games’ retro collection Parasol Superstars will finally launch digitally on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch next week (April 14th). As you may recall, the collection, which contains Spica Adventure and Parasol Stars: The Story of…