PC Gaming
I can’t say I ever thought I’d write a guide about how to destroy sticky notes, but FBC: Firebreak isn’t your average game. If you’ve already played Control, you’ll know that things get a little funky in this federal bureau and paranormal hotbed, including a plague of sentient sticky notes that need to be periodically…
Over the course of the 20th century, more people were called a great—or the greatest—theoretician of Marxism than I can count. Lenin, Che Guevara, Deng Xiaoping, Tony Cliff: all these names and more bore the mantle of Karl Marx’s true inheritor—the standard-bearer who had synthesised historical materialism for a new era and was prepared to…
We’ve got a fresh hint for today’s Wordle waiting below, helping point you in the direction of today’s winning word without giving the game away. Use it first thing to maximise your opening line, or save it for whenever you think you’d benefit from a little guidance. Whatever happens, the June 17 (1459) answer is…
HBO’s first Game of Thrones series didn’t feature nearly enough dragon scenes, if you ask me. My favorite mythical beasties mostly showed up for a passing greeting or to die within seconds, but it sounds like that’s a problem PlaySide’s upcoming RTS, Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, could remedy. “The dragons have been a…
Rainbow Six Siege is having a moment. The tactical FPS is one week into a major update that introduced a new name (Siege X), a wild 6v6 mode, modernized maps, and most consequential of all, a new price point: After holding out for 10 years, Siege is finally free-to-play. Siege X is now more popular…
On an Internet of Shit, a cool website feels newsworthy, and graphic designer Josh Worth has made a very cool website. If The Moon Were Only One Pixel is a “tediously accurate” recreation of our stellar neighborhood you can explore in your browser, and it’s a meditative, thoughtful way to break up the monotony of…
Chinese game company Cognosphere is known for four things: Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, and its aggressive pursuit of anyone who doesn’t toe the line on its announcement and release schedules. In the latest example of how much it really, really does not like leakers, the company is now suing a guy…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a major hit on Steam: An “overwhelmingly positive” rating across more than 83,000 user reviews on Steam, and concurrent player numbers that keep it high on Steam’s top 100 most-played list—not bad at all for a relatively brief narrative-based singleplayer RPG. And if you’ve played through it all and wish…
Dune: Awakening is off to a great start: excellent Steam reviews, a growing playerbase, and few of the launch problems that regularly plague popular new multiplayer games. There is some trouble brewing, however, as players begin exploring Dune: Awakening’s endgame, much of which revolves around PvP in the deep desert—a massive, uninhabitable zone only traversable…
I had the chance to talk to veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas) at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, and alongside other big ticket RPG topics, I had romance on my mind. I don’t want to pigeonhole Sawyer as “the anti-RPG romance guy,” but he’s been a consistent critic…