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NEED TO KNOW What is it? A cozy life sim set in a the small Hobbit town of BywaterExpect to pay: $34.99/£29.99Developer: Wētā WorkshopPublisher: Private DivisionReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Official site Bilbo Baggins’ trip to Lonely Mountain (and back again) in The Hobbit was roughly 2,000 miles. In…
When it comes to design, the mark of any good company is its ability to take criticism well. It’s such a critical element that’s often overlooked when we evaluate overall brands, but being able to take critique from a flawed product and then feed that back to the design team is incredibly advantageous on so…
You don’t reach the top of Hollywood without stepping on heads. It’s a rough game out in La-La Land, and only the most ruthless and bloodthirsty can survive long enough to get their star on the Walk of Fame. Like Bob Odenkirk, for instance, who gave us a taste of the killer instinct under that…
In case you missed the news, let me get you up to speed—payment processors like Visa and Mastercard have, likely at the behest of anti-porn group Collective Shout, pressured both Steam and Itch.io to either delist or limit ‘adult’ games. These blanket bans not only sweep erotic and NSFW works into their net, but have…
Sometimes in the world of PCs, a new product gets launched that’s so niche, rare, or unusual that mere mortals never get a chance to see what the fuss is all about. One such example is from Japanese firm Clock Work Tea Party, which deems that what all PC gamers really want are scented thermal…
Overwatch 2 is going in for round two of its Loverwatch dating sim—it first appeared two years ago on February 13. While this new iteration includes more heroes like Junker Queen and Mauga, it is, unfortunately, only available for players in China. The original Loverwatch only had two romance options, Genji or Mercy, with a…
AI! It’s the new big thing. It’s the foundation of the 21st-century digital economy. It’s going to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. It will punish the wicked and reward the righteous. It’ll bring about the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. And you’re going to lose your…
AMD’s Strix Halo is a beefy chip with superb CPU performance (according to our testing), but I thought it was a bit too power hungry and pricey to slap into a gaming handheld. Well, me just a few days ago was a fool, as GPD has announced just that. There’s just one catch— It doesn’t…
Jacek Zięba reflexively reaches for his temple as he recalls the moment he realized Bloober’s sci-fi horror game, set in alt-history Poland after a deadly outbreak, was about Covid. “We didn’t want to make a game about the pandemic,” the game director says. “When we started the story, it just worked for us. And at…
“Give us a chance,” horror studio Bloober Team asked Silent Hill fans last summer. Before Silent Hill 2’s remake racked up critical acclaim on release, the developers at Bloober Team spent two years working under the Sauron-like eye of a fandom that had weathered far too many disappointments, and a horror audience that saw Bloober’s…