PC Gaming
It’s finally happened. Dwarf Fortress, the dazzlingly complex colony sim that was free for almost 20 years before becoming a massive hit on Steam, has sold 1 million copies since it tunnelled onto the platform. Publisher Kitfox Games shared the news on Bluesky. “We’ve reached an exciting milestone: Dwarf Fortress surpassed 1,000,000 sales on Steam,”…
I have fond memories of the original Fear Effect despite never actually owning it. It’s one of those games that I enjoyed vicariously by reading about it in magazines, at a time when coveting games was sometimes the closest you’d ever get to actually playing them. It’s a phenomenon that probably isn’t exclusive to the…
Videogames have always been cavalier with numbers. For decades, series like Final Fantasy and Unreal Tournament have brazenly ignored the fundamentals of sequel ordering, not to mention the whole ‘making art with mathematics’ thing videogames are wont to do. But now they’ve started playing fast and loose with the concept of anniversaries too, and I…
When Bit Reactor’s game director Greg Foertsch confirms to me that Star Wars Zero Company has permadeath, I can’t help but grin. In retrospect, it might be a bit odd for me to get so psyched about the shadow of mortality, but this one choice says so much about what kind of game—and what kind…
It’s Saturday, so why not celebrate the start of the weekend with a nice easy Wordle win? Today’s answer is here whenever you want to click on it, whether that’s before you’ve touched the first row or you’re one line away from the bottom of the board. As always, we’ve got a clue for the…
Perusing the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit for pro gamer tips this morning (as one does), I was struck by something: It was all photo mode shitposts. The subreddit has gazed upon all Patch 8 has to offer, and summarily declared: “This is r/BaldursGate3, bitch. We clown in this mf. Better take your sensitive ass back…
In the latest episode of our video series Reality Check, paleontologist Dr. Darren Naish returned to give his assessment of the monster designs in Elden Ring. While you might be unsurprised to learn that FromSoft’s opus isn’t exactly “realistic,” Naish praised the studio’s attention to detail and commitment to its fiction. Case and point: The…
I’ve seen lots of attempts to recreate the success of Rocket League over the past decade, but none have come close. Rematch might finally, actually do it. The multiplayer soccer game (‘Rocket League but with feet,’ as I’m calling it here) is having an open beta on Steam this weekend, and has already surpassed 100,000…
Base-building RTS Tempest Rising released on Steam yesterday, a full week before it was supposed to, and the publisher doesn’t see a good way out of it, so the game just has a new release date now: April 17 instead of April 24. “While the team worked quickly to address the issue, the most seamless…
A gnarly new skin for Doctor Strange is causing a stir among Marvel Rival players. The $25 “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness” skin, depicting the wizard’s zombified form from the 2022 Sam Raimi film, was teased earlier this week and released today, but some customers are miffed that the in-game skin doesn’t match…