Barrel (roll) of laughs? After skipping the Switch 1 generation entirely, Star Fox‘s return has felt like a long time coming. This week, the fab four returned (Fox, Falco, Peppy, and Slippy, we mean), and while it might not have been the most original fly past we’ve seen from the mercenaries, it sure brought a…
Grand Theft Auto 6 feels a little more real this week after Rockstar dropped over 60 new screenshots and opened the floodgates for pre-orders. My cynical feelings around its $100 Ultimate Edition aside, it’s hard to not at least have one toe on the hype train—just about everyone’s talking about it, both the good and…
Mewgenics might be the hottest Edmund McMillen roguelike in town, but stone cold classic The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is no worse off. In fact, more abandoned children are fending off malformed horrors in their mother’s basement than ever—the game reached a new all-time concurrent player count peak on Steam today. The new big number…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Sally Beaumont’s earliest PC gaming memory is playing…
Thief: The Dark Project is a brilliant game for many reasons, among which is that it has one of the best mapping communities of any game. While the Doom and Quake mapping scenes are larger and more prolific, Thief’s mappers consistently punch so far above their weight they should probably get into boxing sims rather…
Switch 1, too. We’re almost halfway through the year, and it feels like Switch 2 shifted up a gear in the games department. While Nintendo has been cranking out its first-party offerings at the regular monthly cadence, third parties have been putting out brilliant games, too, including impressive ports and day-and-date cross-platform releases. Capcom, in…
Every now and then, a truly great game will emerge, revitalizing a beloved genre and reminding us why we fell in love with it in the first place. In 2025, that game was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a turn-based RPG developed by Sandfall Interactive, which wears its inspiration on its sleeve, yet still stands strong…
All eyes may currently be fixed upon Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Creative Assembly’s ferociously ambitious foray into the 40k universe. But it’s worth remembering that the more traditional side of Total War is looking pretty exciting too, as CA is returning to one of Total War’s best settings in Medieval 3. Medieval 3 is much…
‘n Boer maak ’n plan. My brother (left) and I playing Famiclone. You can see the yellow multicart on top of the TV I was born in South Africa, am 1/8th Afrikaans (my ancestors were Boers), and I like to talk about its bizarre and unique gaming ecosystem a lot, since it shaped everything I’ve…
PS1 mascot Spyro the Dragon has a surprisingly strong presence on PC these days. All three of the original games are available on Steam in remade form through the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Developer Toys for Bob is also working on Spyro: A Realm Beyond, the first new Spyro game in almost 20 years. One thing…