A Baldur’s Gate 3-style early access period wouldn’t have done much for Deadfire, the secret best CRPG of the last decade, per its director Josh Sawyer

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is, you may have heard, the 40th best videogame you can play right now. Ask certain incredibly cool members of the PC Gamer team and they might even tell you it’s actually higher than that. But it’s also not a super difficult game—it’s fairly easy to assemble a party that…

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Cult of the Lamb’s Woolhaven DLC is everything I could’ve wanted and more, with brilliant fights, lethal weather, and of course, heaps of cute little critters

I do not know what Massive Monster puts into Cult of the Lamb. You’d think after over 50 hours, completing the game, and doing absolutely everything possible, I’d get tired and move on. But no, as it turns out, I can never get enough of collecting and fighting little critters. So you can probably imagine…

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Feature: The Best Mistake Nintendo Ever Made? Why 2DS Is The Perfect Embodiment Of Gunpei Yokoi’s Core Principles

Don’t disrespect the door stop. It’s taken me thirteen years to realise that chunky plastic wedge wasn’t a joke. It was a milestone. I finally got my hands on a Nintendo 2DS this week – that slate-shaped, non-folding, non-3D thing everyone mocked when it launched in October 2013. Opinion remains fiercely split: people love it…

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A Obscure Piece Of Japanese Action-RPG History Has Just Dropped On The Nintendo Switch, In The Form Of ‘Courageous Perseus’

Next week’s EGGCONSOLE title has also been revealed. This week’s EGGCONSOLE release for the Nintendo Switch has been revealed to be the Greek-mythology-inspired action RPG, Courageous Perseus. Released for the PC-8801 home computer, back in 1984, the game is the work of the developer Cosmos Computer and is considered to be a “masterpiece” that pioneered…

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