Endgame events are a big deal for Total War players. Most of us remember the Mongols and Timurids invading in Medieval 2—both the sense of anticipation as we prepared for their arrival, and the monumental battles that took place as we tried to survive their onslaught. They’re just one of the many features that make…
Microsoft has been extremely busy lately, taking a well-earned break from polluting the world with AI to eviscerate the videogame industry. The reports of potential layoffs and closures—coupled with the short-sighted strategies of other publishers, including main rival Sony—are devastating. And the bad news just keeps coming. According to The Verge, Arkane’s Blade is now…
We’ve survived the June deluge and… Wait, somehow there are even more cozy games launching in July? I’ve counted up 30 new cozy games worth taking a peek at this month. That’s way too many for me or anyone else though, so as usual I’ve called up my cozy comrades to pick the ones they’re…
And it only took 37 years! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – despite the passage of time and arrival of superior hardware, the original DMG-01 Game Boy is one of my favourite handhelds, and I still keep mine to hand whenever I fancy a quick game of Tetris or Super Mario…
With AI data centers swallowing up every bit of memory storage around, it should come as no surprise that some creative engineers might be looking at alternatives. Most aren’t going to be considering solutions from the 1950/1960s, of course, but that’s precisely what one self-professed tinkerer did to create the “world’s worst USB device”. Tech…
“Players can finally walk through the places the 1994 version could only imply”. Here’s something that slipped through the cracks that people have literally been begging us to cover over the last few weeks. It appears the third game in Access Software’s Tex Murphy series, the 1994 FMV adventure game Under A Killing Moon, is…
The Entertainment Software Association, in an ongoing attempt to slow the roll of the games conservation movement Stop Killing Games, made a baffling statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over a proposed Protect Our Games Act that goes as follows: “[Private servers are] illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft….
I’m told that the youths of today find using animated gif reactions ‘cringe’. As a millennial who misspent her youth on Tumblr, reacting to good game news with a gif of The Arm from Twin Peaks rubbing his hands together has become an unfortunate part of my idiolect. Before I break out the folder of…
It is time to do war crimes in a cool way. Battlefield 6, EA’s big loud military-themed shooter that earned a coveted 82% from PC Gamer FPS czar Morgan Park, is free-to-try for a week. The trial period runs from yesterday, June 30, up until July 6. The trial gives you access to five modes…
You threw off my groove. The final first-party Switch 1 game (as announced at the time of writing) is almost here, with Rhythm Heaven Groove set to launch tomorrow on 2nd July. This one has felt like a long time coming, with the series being notably absent for almost the entirety of the Switch generation,…