PC Gaming
We’ve grumbled a few times about the engorgement of PC games—100GB is the new normal—but these days it’s not even the first install you have to worry about. This year, we saw 30GB and larger updates become commonplace. We lost the battle against file sizes years ago, and now we’re just being slapped around. I…
Looking for some weekend Wordle help? There’s a hint for today’s puzzle waiting just below, ready to offer a clear path through the grey letter fog. Need something a little more direct on the weekend? You’ve got it. The answer to the December 23 (917) Wordle is only a quick click away. A win in…
New Blood shooter Ultrakill has released an exciting holiday update. The high-flying Doom Eternal come character action riff launched the first part of its third and final act: Layer 7, Violence. Even as the boomer shooter renaissance presses ever onward, Ultrakill remains a singular FPS. For my money, it’s the combination of acrobatic action with…
2023 is very near its end, but the bad news for the videogame industry keeps on coming. Just three days before Christmas, TinyBuild has laid off all staff at indie publisher Versus Evil and shut it down. Versus Evil’s closure was initially reported by now-former employees on Twitter. “Welp. That was a fun 10 year…
After putting the Destiny 2 Legacy Collection up for grabs for a week, the Epic Games Store appears to have drifted back into a daily rhythm of free games. Today’s offering is Art of Rally, a stylized top-down racing game from the maker of Absolute Drift. Superficially, Art of Rally is an arcade racer, but…
It’s a great feeling when you find a new nightly game—something you want to sit down and play for an hour or two every evening after a long day. A couple weeks ago I found my newest obsession: Balatro, a roguelike deckbuilder that uses poker rules (and then utterly shatters those rules). Since I found…
Cozy MMO Palia has rung in its first winter holiday event and there’s a scavenger hunt for seven winterlight presents to find. You’ll have received a letter from Zeki with a list of hints on all the present locations, but a couple of Zeki’s clues are pretty darn vague, so you may need a little…
In a new interview with IGN, voice actor Doug Cockle, famed as the voice behind The Witcher trilogy hero Geralt of Rivia, says it’s “inevitable” that AI will be increasingly used in the process of game development, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing—but it is potentially “dangerous” if voice actors don’t take steps to…
It’s startling to think The Day Before was once the most wishlisted game on Steam, given how fast and spectacular its fall from grace has been. Earlier this month, the game launched to scathing reviews from critics and players alike, panning it as a shallow, empty extraction shooter that was nothing like what its developer…
While Baldur’s Gate 3 is appreciably big in size—its three acts spanning a lot of square miles —its sheer largeness comes more from the amount of pieces on the board. A tool recently discovered that the thing has around 1,800 characters and over 110,000 lines of text. So when the game’s principal narrative designer Lawrence…