We are drowning in shit. Steam Next Fest, which kicks off tomorrow, currently has 8,011 matches on its press preview landing page. That’s roughly double the amount of demos featured in Steam’s June 2026 Next Fest. In June 2022, Next Fest boasted just over a thousand demos. The vast majority of these demos will be…
Volume.art is a nice, free, cool thing on the internet, and I just think that’s something worth celebrating these days. The microgame collection sees you manipulating volume sliders through various abstracted, surprising, and very funny ways. It starts strong with “A man named Bow” by Alice Bottino, which kinda reminds me of the Smash Bros…
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At a glance The rough prototype looks to have been binned early in development, and it’s largely avoided discussion before Doneda’s work. Some portions appear to have been part of an interconnected area, others are likely different versions of the same concept. It may have been related to what became the Undead Crypt in the…
Politico recently reported on a confidential draft of a proposed AI safety bill from Anthropic, the company behind Claude LLMs (via Tom’s Hardware). The bill, which has been pitched to US lawmakers, would let the government crack down on a given AI model “only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1…
Gamedev may as well be conducted in a black box as far as many players are concerned, so it can be easy to think of a good game as one where development went smoothly and a bad game as one where things went terribly awry. But in the case of The Outlast Trials, making something…
Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I have not played Hades 2 since October 4 of 2025. That’s not because I “fell out…
Current-ly targeting Spring 2027 release. Remember Gravity Circuit, the acclaimed Mega Man-inspired action platformer from 2023? Well, it appears the developer and publisher team of Domesticated Ant Games and Dear Villagers are currently working on a sequel for PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and PC (via Steam), due out next year in Spring, and they’ve just…
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A safe space to process the unthinkable. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is frequently crowned the greatest game ever made, celebrated for its dungeons, its music, and a critical legacy that stands as the highest-reviewed title in gaming history. For those of us who were there at the time, it was for gaming…