Pragmata‘s weapon system is a bit weird. Aside from your basic Grip pistol (which you’ll be able to change later on), every weapon is treated as temporary. As soon as you run out of bullets, the gun is used up and disappears, forcing you to scavenge for another one off the battlefield. While you’re pushed…
Almost immediately after entering Sector 1’s Solar Power Plants in Pragmata, you’ll stumble across a doorway blocked with blue crystals and rock. You can peek into the room, but you can’t get past these barriers. Once you reach Sector 2, the Mass Production Array (the area that looks like New York), you’ll find even more…
Pragmata‘s a weird game. It feels both like a game from two decades ago and like it’s breaking new ground at the same time. Case in point, its level design tends to be very linear, especially early on, but then there’s a variety of activities that give you heaps of overly complicated currencies. It also…
Pragmata‘s first boss, the Sector Guard, is quite a step up compared to the challenges you’ve faced so far. But it’s also a sign of things to come: the Sector Guard is a breeze compared to bosses and even standard fights later on, not least because it’s a tutorial for the Overdrive mechanic. Because all…
I don’t expect every actor to play the videogames they’re connected to, and have a lot of respect for the way Walton Goggins just straight-up said he hasn’t played Fallout and won’t play Fallout. Good for him. You don’t want to join us down here in the pit, spending the rest of our lives trying…
While Critical Role has partnered with Wizard of the Coast on collaborations like The Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, most actual-play series where you can watch people play D&D are unofficial. Though there have been several produced by WotC over the years (I used to watch the Spelljammer campaign Legends of the Multiverse religiously), it seems…
A story-driven prequel to the popular TV show. The famous narrative game studio Telltale, known for series such as Sam & Max, has this week surprised fans with the release of The Expanse: A Telltale Series Deluxe Edition on the Switch eShop. This story-driven sci-fi adventure, developed in partnership with Deck Nine (Life is Strange),…
Are you ready? The talented American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey has today released her theme song for 007 First Light. As highlighted by Rolling Stone, First Light is a “grand and orchestral affair, embellished with motifs from the James Bond theme song”. It’s been composed and co-written by David Arnold, who has previously…
Between 2022 and 2024 PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield wrote about Fortune’s Run six times. “It’s like the Jedi Knight 4 we never got,” he wrote in September 2022 about the stylish immersive sim which, like Gloomwood, doubles as an impactful boomer shooter and even has a basketball minigame. It was definitely among the most interesting…
When a Q&A kicks off with the reply “I am currently in a bad mood,” you’ve got my curiosity. That’s not how the usual polite back-and-forth tends to go! And when the reason for that mood turns out to be “because yet again I have been given a book on designing computer games,” well, I’m…