I love the boss fights in Cult of the Lamb; they’re a welcome change of pace to what is otherwise a relatively peaceful dungeon-crawling experience. But I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that my absolute favourite part of fighting a boss is getting to indoctrinate them and welcome their cute follower form into my…
Few things thrill me like a very old game suddenly getting an update. Keep, quintuple-A publishers, your storied pomp. Give me your ancient, your forgotten, your games that run in Unreal Engine 1 and whose default controls make heavy use of the numpad. That’s what gets me excited. So the fact that Serious Sam 2,…
Mewgenics‘ second act ramps up the difficulty by throwing you in the deep end, forcing you to contend with the Desert’s Heat Wave debuff. Heat Wave reduces all healing by one and disables automatic healing after completing a fight, which is a death sentence in a battle of attrition. Thankfully, with proper preparation, combating Heat…
A new beta version of ‘Rogue 7800’ has just been released. Following its original release on Unix-based computer systems in the early ’80s, the dungeon crawler Rogue received a bunch of commercial ports to home platforms, with the help of publishers like Mastertronic and Epyx; this included versions for Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari…
I’ve often been casually tempted to rifle through the jumble of electronic odds and sods at my local dump. But I’ve never actually done it. Now I’m thinking I probably should after a redditor on the PC Master Race sub reports scoring 64 GB of DDR4, a 10th Gen Intel i7 CPU, an Asus motherboard,…
It’s magic! While Nintendo and Sega have long since kissed and made up following a bloody hardware war in the 1990s, the Kyoto company is still actively at odds with Sony, the maker of the PlayStation – a console that very nearly played SNES games. With that in mind, the notion of Mario being on…
For over four decades, Windows Notepad has been the basic text editor of choice for many a discerning PC user. In recent years, though, Microsoft has been steadily adding all kinds of features to it, turning it from a barebones word processor into something decidedly more complex. Unfortunately, the addition of formatting and tables now…
It’s that time once again: Overwatch‘s yearly reset. And with that comes the same old confusion around the new competitive weapon variant. Honestly, I get it, the system is needlessly complicated with all its different currencies. This year, Crimson Wolf is all the rage, a new Talon-red themed camo. Crimson Wolf joins Golden, Jade, and…
The cherry blossom arrives. Japan’s cherry blossom-filled sakura season may still be a month away, but Marvelous is bringing the petals in early with the new Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar update. The ver. 1.4.0 patch is now live on Switch and Switch 2, introducing two new cherry blossom-themed gliders (the ‘Ceremonial Glider’ and ‘Leaf…
Overwatch just had its huge reset last night, dropping the ‘2’, adding five new characters, and revamping the UI, to name just a few changes. It was also the first time I’d seen a queue to get into the servers for quite some time. We unfortunately don’t have any numbers for player count on Battle.net,…