The way NPCs open doors in Skyrim has always been a bit silly. When they’re crossing load screens they can’t open them all the way—because then the other side would have to be rendered—and so they pop doors open a crack revealing a sliver of darkness, then fade out of existence like the guy in…
Download it now. Octopath Traveler 0 made its debut on the Switch and Switch 2 late last year, and to get the new year underway, Square Enix has now released another small update for this new entry in the HD-2D RPG series. It includes improvements to the game’s performance, sound quality, and a handful of…
On January 30th, Retro Room Games made their Game Boy Advance port of Nebulus available to purchase in their online store. Produced in collaboration with Rebellion, Nebulus is a classic puzzle platformer dating to 1987. Originally released for home computers such as the Amiga and the Commodore 64 back in 1987, Nebulus is relatively…
Larian’s community-focused Channel From Hell normally hosts videos like livestreams and developer interviews. The latest upload is a bit different. Borrowing the chill beats aesthetic every videogame from World of Warcraft to Victoria 3 has riffed on, Larian presents Chill Demonic Beats To Long Rest To, half an hour of a relaxed version of Raphael’s…
Need to know What is it? XCOM as a solar system-spanning grand strategy gameRelease date January 5, 2026Expect to pay $40Developer Pavonis InteractivePublisher Hooded HorseReviewed on Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 4070 Super, 32 GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site If you’ve played any of the XCOMs, the premise here will be familiar—appropriately enough, given that…
The PC Gamer review of Morrowind scored it an 83 back in 2002, which as the disclaimer at the top will inform you, is the lowest score a mainline Elder Scrolls game has got from the UK mag to date. That may stir feelings of confusion and unrest in you as it does “the Morrowind…
Elden Ring Nightreign was a major shakeup to the formula FromSoftware cultivated over several Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring—while each of those games is a departure from the last, Nightreign’s multiplayer focus and battle royale-inspired format make it a different beast altogether. But even though it was less of an RPG than…
Resin-dent Evil? For past me, the idea of 3D printing — just the mention of it, the sound of the words — always conjured up images of stuff like Tom Cruise and his wee red balls in Minority Report. I know, the ‘precog’ machine in that particular movie wasn’t really a 3D printer, and Tom’s…
How does that song by the Welsh rock back Stereophonics go, again? It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches; it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees. Lest I murder this shoehorned comparison any more than necessary, it seems as though Pluma_1980’s bid to drag GTA 5 into the modern…
Highguard has fielded all sorts of opinions since it launched Monday. I’m not huge on it, but PC Gamer staff writer Morgan Park spoke more positively of it in his impressions—though he did say it’s “ill-timed” given the larger shift toward more casual, chaotic fun that shooters are taking right now. It seems like Highguard…