Did you feel that? The echoing reverberation of thousands of collective hours of roguelike deckbuilding thudding into place ahead of us on the timestream? That’s because Slay the Spire 2 just locked in its early access release on March 5, and—surprise—it’s bringing four player co-op on launch day. I’ll give you a moment to rotate…

Midsummer Studios founder and former Firaxis creative director, Jake Solomon, has announced the abrupt closure of Midsummer through a post on X. Solomon also shared a two-minute gameplay video of its life sim, “Burbank,” the first public showcase of the planned Sims competitor. We have reached out to Solomon for comment, and will update this…

Another day, another example of Netflix continuing to expand its roster of film and TV projects by walking into the board game aisle of a Target, pointing at a random box, and going: “That one.” Last April Netflix successfully bid for the rights to make a reality series based on board game Monopoly, and followed…

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Gaze upon the Battlefield 6 Season 2 roadmap and witness its mediocrity. Notice its cramped…

What do you get when you fuse the ultimate half-paying-attention time-waster with the act of collecting cards, somehow the most compulsive activity known to man, and then make it go really fast? You get a game seemingly grown in a lab to be the ultimate time killer. Vampire Crawlers is Wolverine for your social calendar….

The cuts at Ubisoft continued today with the layoffs of 40 people from the company’s Toronto studio. First reported by MobileSyrup, the layoffs are part of the ongoing restructuring of Ubisoft into “creative houses,” announced in January, a process that’s also included multiple game cancellations, studio closures, and other layoffs. “Following the recent announcement of the final phase of Ubisoft’s…

Sony has confirmed a Bloomberg report saying that Bluepoint Games, the Sony-owned studio known for its remasters of games including Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls, is being closed in March. The shutdown will reportedly result in roughly 70 people being put out of work. “Following a recent business review, the decision was made…

Last week, Tim Clark, PC Gamer’s resident Arc Raiders die-hard (seriously, he has 530 hours in-game), sat down and spoke with Embark Studios’ Virgil Watkins, design director, and Bence Pajor, audio director, ahead of the launch of its next major update, Shrouded Sky. In the 40 minutes we had, we asked the team all about…