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It’s easy to knock old-school RPGs, especially grindfests like RuneScape, for being games where you endlessly and sometimes mindlessly make numbers go up. But Melvor Idle, which self-bills as a RuneScape-inspired idle adventure game that claims to squeeze the genre into its “purest form,” leans into that—and Jagex has partnered with developer Games by Malcs…
Grand Theft Auto’s radio stations have long stood as an integral part of the series’ whole vibe—either offering time capsules of the times each game was set in (Vice City), or offering a realistic blend of classic and modernity a la Grand Theft Auto 5’s excellent music curation. Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to…
I remember when I’d get bored as a kid, I’d marvel at the back covers of my older brother’s PC game boxes—stuff like Guild Wars: Factions and the original World of Warcraft box, the inner cover of which showed a dwarf thwacking a yeti with that one epic sword that looked like a lightsaber. Even…
As reported by Kotaku, a near-mythical canceled Valve game called F-Stop has been reconstructed from material contained in separate leaks. Direct access to the build seems a little shaky at the moment, but full playthroughs of the game, like this one by Meme Man? on YouTube, are starting to pop up online. Most of F-Stop’s…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Lena Raine’s formative gaming experience was playing…
If you’re a fan of first-person shooters and haven’t played Selaco, you should. Built in the Doom engine and inspired by FEAR, Half-Life and System Shock, Selaco is a rollicking, dizzyingly ambitious sci-fi FPS where you battle a mercenary incursion of a vast, city-sized space station that’s home to the last of humanity. Launched into…
Chronicles: Medieval is an impressive looking open-world sandbox where players explore a dynamic Medieval world and fight in massive, authentic battles. It’s been in development for more than four years and is due to launch into Steam early access early in 2027. However, there is a very real chance this will no longer happen, as…
It seems it isn’t just Steam that’s being flooded with AI slop. Indie games storefront itch.io has reported that the number of new game pages being created per day on the site has doubled in the past two months, and just like Valve’s much bigger distribution service, the finger is being pointed at AI. Over…
Harvey Randall (Image credit: Future) I’ve played about 50+ hours of the World of Warcraft: Forever beta, and wouldn’t you know it, I’m going to be playing a lot more when it comes out November 4. Earlier this week, Kris Zierhut, principal game designer on World of Warcraft: Forever, said that the game would have…
The Verge reports that Dan Greenawalt, studio head of Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10, is planning to retire after nearly 27 years, quoting an internal memo from Trevor Williams of Playground Games. “Dan Greenawalt has decided that this is the right time for him to retire from Microsoft,” Williams is reported to have said, clarifying…