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Last year, Andrzej Sapkowski finished writing another Witcher book, marking his second return to the series. Though he declared he’d finished the Witcher saga in 1999, he returned to it in 2013 with Season of Storms, an interquel mostly set between existing stories, and left the door open for more books set before or during…
Sometimes during Steam Next Fest I enter a sort of fugue state where I download like a hundred game demos and go to town. I give them fifteen minutes to grab me. If they do, they get 15 more minutes. If they’re fun for half an hour, I play until they’re done or until an…
After a number of public betas and a recent benchmark tool, Capcom’s latest entry in the Monster Hunter franchise is here at long last. Monster Hunter Wilds sticks to the tried and tested formula that’s been the hallmark of the series’ 20-year run: accept questions to hunt and vanquish monsters, collect the dropped loot, use…
2023’s Dungeons & Dragons movie made a lot of clever references to Dungeons & Dragons the game, like one character being told to hold important quest items because (as we eventually realize) he has a bag of holding, or the moment an NPC walks mindlessly off in a completely straight line once his quest was…
Civilization 7 had a rougher-than-expected launch, thanks largely to changes that made it, as we said in our 76% review, “the most streamlined and pared-back the series has been in a long time”—and not always in a good way. The backlash was strong enough that developer Firaxis committed to fixes and improvements before Civ 7…
Waking up in a morgue in the updated demo for Disco Elysium-like RPG Esoteric Ebb, the first thing I did was check out the other body lying in there with me. It’s hard to tell what’s a brand new interaction compared to my run through Esoteric Ebb’s original demo versus pre-existing stuff uncovered by a…
If you’re looking for the best Bow build in Monster Hunter Wilds, two things are probably true. One, you’re interested in dealing damage without putting yourself directly in disemboweling range. And two, you probably looked at bowguns and thought “This might be a lot” when you saw the ammo screens. Welcome to the Bow, aka…
The wildfires that raged across parts of California are now fully contained, but caused billions of dollars in damages and left behind devastation that will take years to recover from. To aid in the effort, Itch.io is offering a new California Fire Relief Bundle containing hundreds of games, plus digital comics, books, and other content,…
“I expect a lot of people will hate it,” said Brendan Greene, creator of PUBG, when talking about his next game. That’s not the strongest sales pitch I’ve ever heard, but makes more sense with the context that he’s talking about the uncompromising difficulty of survival game Prologue: Go Wayback!, which launches into early access…
Monster Hunter Wilds has “entered the area,” as it would say of one of its giant roaring enemies storming onto the scene. Far from an unbeatable monstrosity though, Wilds is the best starting point yet for the long-running series with its open world, streamlined combat systems, and slightly less clunky co-op system than past games….