PC Gaming
Rarely have I been so instantly enamoured with a game as Straftat, a gleefully chaotic micro-FPS created by two brothers who couldn’t find a decent deathmatch shooter to play. Straftat pitches two players against each other in lightning-paced 1v1 duels. Less of a throwback and more of a distillation of the classic deathmatches of yore—particularly…
I love a clunky-ass videogame title. Some may argue that videogame names should be kept simple and punchy, like Doom or Quake or BioShock. I would counter that your videogame isn’t truly a videogame unless the name has at least two punctuation marks in it. I’m talking Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines, or my personal favourite, The…
Timberborn is yet another example of just how brilliant the city-building genre is right now. Mechanistry’s beaver-themed management sim lets you construct a water-powered metropolis for the world’s most engineeringly-minded rodent, constructing dams and aqueducts, powering your city with waterwheels. All that, and it’s still in early access, with subsequent updates adding mechanised beavers and…
In the same way that, no matter what their setting, many of the Final Fantasy games have a duo named Biggs and Wedge in them, most of them have a Cid. Final Fantasy 7’s Cid Highwind is the pilot of your plane, while Final Fantasy 16’s Cidolfus Telamon is the outlaw whose hideaway becomes your…
Win your daily Wordle game your way, with our help. Need tips? We’ve got a fantastic quick list to refresh your guessing techniques. Maybe you’d like to take a look at our May 11 (1422) clue instead? No problem, just scroll through and you’ll see it. How about a peek at today’s answer for a…
In October of 2022, popular personality-led gaming site Giant Bomb was bought by Fandom, the multi-headed wiki-hosting hydra, at the same time as Fandom acquired GameSpot, Metacritic, and GameFAQs. Conflict between Fandom and the opiniated editors of Giant Bomb arose this year when the publication of new content was put on hold as part of…
Asymmetric multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight celebrated its ninth anniversary with a chonky livestream broadcast from PAX East where a screaming crowd of Dead-heads reacted to the announcements of upcoming additions and collaborations. Among them was a couple details about the previously announced Five Nights at Freddy’s collaboration, which will bring the villain of…
First spotted by Game File (readers may encounter a paywall), Nintendo has recently changed its online user agreement in multiple consumer-unfriendly ways just before the launch of the Switch 2. Chief among them: Nintendo asserts the right to render your console “permanently unusable” if it determines you’re in violation of the agreement. Nintendo’s specific new…
The gorgeous first person action-roguelike Mortal Sin recently went live with a surprising new update: A graphical overhaul with an arguably even more stunning riff on its pulp comic book art style. Fans of the original needn’t fret, though: You can toggle between the OG palette and new hotness at any time. Mortal Sin’s whole…
As reported by Eurogamer, Elden Ring’s “Tarnished Edition” GOTY re-release and update won’t just come with new weapons out in the world: It’ll have two new starting classes added to the lineup, with both harkening back to Souls characters of the past, and one of them coming equipped with the Milady Light Greatsword, a killer…