Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Baller. Hello folks, and welcome to that wondrous occasion commonly known as ‘The Weekend’. Before we dive into what we’re playing, let’s quickly recap this week. First up, Masahiro Sakurai presented another hour-long Direct for Kirby Air Riders, and it was a doozy. We’ve compiled all the major announcements in one place, so be sure…
Launching this November. Although there are no current plans for Kirby Air Riders DLC, during the recent broadcast, game director Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed there will be a day one update. Yes, like many other games nowadays, this patch will apparently be adding some of the “things” discussed during the latest broadcast. We don’t know…
Halo was announced for PS5 this week. In some absolutely huge industry news this week, Microsoft yesterday announced the Halo series would be coming to PlayStation 5 in 2026, with a new Unreal Engine 5 remake of Master Chief’s original campaign. While there have been rumours for some time now about this iconic series being…
Whether you dream of an instant win or just like the idea of being able to have a little help if you need it, we’ve got all the Wordle assistance you need right here. Keep things nice and simple—or save a tough game at the last minute—with a glance at the October 25 (1589) answer….
Space Age DLC also confirmed. Since the launch of the Switch 2 in June, many developers have been announcing upgrades for existing Switch releases. With this in mind, the construction and management title Factorio will be getting a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. This title was originally released on the Switch in 2022, and the Switch…
Look, I love Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, but there have been a lot more videogames where first-person melee combat kind of sucks than ones where it’s as fun as kicking an orc off a cliff in Dark Messiah was. There’s a reason we all play Skyrim as stealth archers. When Fatshark was first…
“We had a guy in Korea that broke Vermintide 1 because he had played it so much he hit, in the background, level 999 or something like that,” says Victor Magnuson, currently design director of Darktide. “He just got stuck because it couldn’t go above that number. We had to patch the game to allow…
Since its reveal I’ve been asking myself if you can iterate on something like PowerWash Simulator enough to reasonably justify a sequel, and I don’t know why I’m so surprised the answer is yes, absolutely you can. It’s great, and I’m obsessed with some of the new toys FuturLab has given us in PowerWash Simulator…