PC Gaming
Sebastian Wojciechowski, People Can Fly CEO, shared some disheartening news in an announcement on LinkedIn on Sunday. Not only is the studio indefinitely suspending two games it had in development, it is also scaling down its staff. Both are the result of negotiations with a publisher falling through and a lack of adequate resources and…
You might not have much time to take in the atmosphere in Elden Ring Nightreign while you’re speedrunning between boss fights, but more attention and detail was put into the world design than you might expect for a spin-off game that reuses so many assets from the 2022 hit. FromSoftware Environmental Artist Saori Mizuno dug…
In grand FromSoftware tradition, Elden Ring Nightreign begins with a fight you’re supposed to lose. As is also tradition, it’s perfectly possible to gut it out and beat him anyway if you’re enough of a toxic Souls tryhard cool guy. Nightreign’s tutorial fight even furnishes you with a one-of-a-kind relic for your troubles. It’s nothing…
Here’s a question. What’s the most important game in your life you don’t think anybody else would mention as having a significant influence on theirs? To be clear, I don’t mean the most obscure game you’ve ever played, although there’s a chance it might be that. I’m referring to the most unusual game you’ve crossed…
Elden Ring Nightreign is hard in a way that no FromSoftware game over the last decade has been. Where the pacing of Dark Souls and Elden Ring normally reward patience, Nightreign demands a speedrunner’s frenzy. Where the intricate dungeons of those games encourage memorization, so that you can dart in to grab a killer weapon…
Project Warlock was a thoroughly entertaining FPS throwback which caught the bloody wave of the boomer shooter revival right at its height in 2018. As such, I was excited by the prospect of a sequel, and one was duly revealed at the PC Gaming Show in 2021. Then, years passed. My eyesight deteriorated, flecks of…
//Body It’s the end of the line for preposterously successful cleaning sim PowerWash Simulator. The last of its free updates has emerged squeaky clean from developer FuturLab’s power shower, representing station terminus for PowerWash Simulator as a game still in active development. Through these updates, officially known as The Muckingham Files, developer FuturLab has been…
There were a bunch of excellent-looking puzzle games revealed at this week’s Thinky Direct, including a new mystery game from one of the designers of the Case of the Golden Idol, and a time-loop based “Metroidbrainia” (a portmanteau that caused me physical pain) which swaps out tool-gathering for puzzle-solving. The game that really stood out…
Atomfall wasn’t as good as it could have been when it launched in March, mainly due to its barebones combat and anaemic stealth and survival systems. But I nonetheless enjoyed exploring Rebellion’s eerie take on the Lake District while unravelling the mystery behind the catastrophe at the Windscale Power Plant. I’d be more than happy…
It’s difficult to think of games whose soundtrack had a bigger impact on an entire generation than the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series. Popular music had been a part of games for decades: Journey Escape for the Atari 2600 was a particularly weird example, and the use of Song 2 by Blur in FIFA: Road…