PC Gaming
The World of Warcraft: Forever min-maxers have been arguing about the pros and cons of each playable race since the throwback MMO was announced. It isn’t enough to just pick whoever looks cool for some people. They need to know how the math works out so they don’t spend a hundred hours leveling a character…
Literally one day before it was set to launch into early access, the pixel art action RPG Emberville has been delayed so the development team can incorporate feedback from the game’s recent Steam Next Fest demo. Instead of rolling out on October 27 as planned, Emberville is now set to launch on January 7. “Many…
Halloween is almost upon us, and if you’re looking for some suitably spooky videogame fun then allow me to direct your attention to Playable Archive, a free “micro psychological horror experience” from Darkstone Digital, the solo studio behind The Mortuary Assistant. As you might expect, given the title, Playable Archive bears a number of similarities…
As part of our ongoing coverage and commemoration of the closure of BioWare, we’ve been reaching out to RPG developers to hear what the studio meant to them. Lead SEO editor Lauren Morton got in touch with 16 devs who owe their careers to the legendary RPG studio, and today I can share the words…
Composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Stray Gods, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate) just shared 20 minutes of music he wrote as a sort of audition/starting point for the score of Mass Effect 5, aka. Mass Effect: Universe. According to Wintory, he had been in “serious conversation” with BioWare and EA to provide the game’s soundtrack. To be clear:…
The first new card I found in Forbidden Solitaire’s new DLC The Discarded gave me the power to throw a card like a knife at whatever horror was trying to kill me. Although nothing warranted such a desperate move, I fear it won’t be long before I find myself out of options now that I’ve…
A Variety report says that Walter Koenig, known to the world as Star Trek’s Russian hothead Pavel Chekhov, has died. Koenig’s big break in show biz came in 1967, when he was cast as Chekhov in the second season of the original Star Trek series. He portrayed the character until the show’s cancellation, and then…
I love the standard farm sim formula. Becoming a titan of capitalism by hoeing rows of tomatoes by hand is great, but I’ve really been craving one that’s about tending the environment that already exists instead of clear-cutting an entire forest to make way for my perfectly optimized agricultural vision. Some games have tried, but…
“We are Mass Effect,” the fan group behind a currently 224,000 signature Change.org petition seeking to secure the series’ future, has rented out digital billboard space in New York’s Times Square to promote the effort. The group shared a video of the billboard in the wild on X, “The Everything App.” Every hour at 35…
Today, October 26, is the 19th anniversary of The Witcher, the groundbreaking RPG that introduced Geralt, and CD Projekt, to the world. To mark the moment, CD Projekt took to social to pay tribute to friends who made it all possible: BioWare. CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski spoke warmly of BioWare last week in…