Menace has the bones to become one of the best strategy and tactics games released in years. The new early access game from the creators of Battle Brothers, years in the making, blends campaign strategy and platoon tactics—think the quicker-playing fun of Jagged Alliance or X-Com with the best bits of tabletop and board wargames….

Airframe Ultra is looking to be the good kind of multiplayer game: No engagement hacking or battle passes⁠—you pay once, but it has lasting value and, depending on its success at launch, dev support. There’s no ranked play, but it’s still a game with competitive depth and mechanics to master. When I sat down to…

Blizzard surprised us the other day when it added a new Warlock class to Diablo 2 and brought the 2021 remaster of the classic ARPG to Steam. For some of Diablo 2’s original developers, the revitalization of their 26-year-old game is a happy testament to its longevity, but also means that, to some degree, they’re…

World of Warcraft’s next expansion is almost here and with it will be a mountain of changes to how the game is played. Not only has Blizzard pruned many of the combat mods, or addons, that people have relied on for years, but every class in the game has seen significant changes to how they…

Avast ye! Thar, off the starboard bow, sail ho! It’s a pirate ship, and it’s headed right toward your wishlist! Heave ho, you scallywags! That’s pirate speak for: did you know co-op pirate survival game Windrose now has over 1,000,000 wishlists on Steam? That massive bounty of excited fans means it’s now among Steam’s top…

Phil Spencer’s surprise retirement announcement last week, coupled with the equally unexpected resignation of Xbox president Sarah Bond and elevation of former Instacart exec Asha Sharma to Microsoft Gaming CEO, left a lot of unanswered questions. Was Phil forced out? Why didn’t Bond, his presumed successor, get the job? Who’s this new boss, who only…

Amazon announced today that King of Meat, one of the more disastrous outcomes of its ill-fated effort to be a big-time PC game publisher, is officially throwing in the towel and going away for good in April. “Despite the creativity and innovation Glowmade brought to King of Meat, the game has unfortunately not found the…

One completely unexpected side-effect of the pandemic: I got really sick of sea shanties. When everyone was stuck at home clinging to Tiktok for their sanity, it seemed like at least one out of five people recorded some sort of shanty-related content, and it didn’t take long before the idea of hearing yet another spirited…