It’s trickier than it looks – but one good run is all you need. Pokémon Pokopia‘s Zorua Hide-and-Sneak event – though you’ll likely refer to it as ‘Hide and Seek’ – is available in July 2026. This limited-time event has a simple objective: making your way past Zorua and other patrolling Pokémon to reach the…
Sub-lime. SFB Games’ Detective Grimoire series has gone from strength to strength as it has plotted its course from flash game to iOS to consoles. This time, the sleuthing twosome, Sally and Grimoire, arrive on Switch 2 with The Mermaid Mask, putting a fresh new murder mystery straight into your hands. It’s a classic setup:…
I run a single SSD gaming PC, which I’m aware is giving me a wonderful case of ‘single-point-of-failure-itus.’ Which is why my ears (eyes?) perked up when I read about GigaWiper, a wonderfully-named malware that can potentially do terrible things to your storage drives. Microsoft has published an analysis into GigaWiper’s capabilities, and it looks…
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros—the upcoming RTS from PlaySide emerging from the blasted wreckage of HBO’s once-water-cooler-dominating fantasy TV series—would like you to know it still exists and is still coming out. Just, you know, a little later than it originally had planned. War for Westeros originally broke cover at last year’s Summer Game…
“Alejandro must be spinning in his Lamborghini”. For years, people have speculated about the limits of the MiSTer FPGA system, and each time a suggested ceiling is mooted, talented developers somehow find a way to confound expectations. It has long been assumed that the MiSTer’s DE10 Nano couldn’t run Dreamcast games, but that has been…
“The game is now able to hit the maximum 20fps far more often than before”. The original SNES Star Fox has been upgraded to make use of Randy Linden’s new Super FX 3 chipset, which was designed to power Limited Run’s recent update of the SNES DOOM port. Released in 1993, Star Fox was the…
Sweet Hamster Days was initially rejected by Steam, perhaps because Valve is more restrictive of games that feature sexually explicit images of real people, or possibly for some other reason we’ll never know. As a designer called Oda told Automaton, “We still don’t know exactly how the platform saw things, but after revising details such…
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer re-review provided by: Need to Know Release date January 31, 2013Expect to pay $20Developer Sumo DigitalPublisher SegaReviewed on Core i7-6700K, 16GB RAM, GTX 980 Steam Deck VerifiedLink Steam I’m not sure anybody has ever had more fun making a game than Sumo Digital did when it made Sonic…
Gears of War 2 featured a campaign you could blast through over the course of a weekend. The perfect length for the kind of story that strings together a bunch of setpiece spectacles that won’t tax your thinking muscles. At one point you end up inside a giant worm and have to fight your way…
When Valve launched Steam Direct in June 2017 it marked a huge shift in the storefront’s identity. Before Direct, Valve manually decided what did and did not release on Steam, or else it used initiatives like Steam Greenlight to have users decide what games would or would not enjoy placement. Before June 2017, the amount…