PC Gaming
Wanna play an action platformer about a badass ninja named Joe Musashi? Streets of Rage 4 developer Lizardcube is reviving the much-loved and much-hated Shinobi series this year, as announced by Sega at Sony’s recent State of Play. The return of the famous ninja action series will happen this year, on August 29. 2D action…
Staggering onto Steam, veins bulging, sweat dripping from its elbows, GSC Game World has dropped a vast, humongous, really quite substantial update for Stalker 2. Delivering a whopping 1,700 fixes to its open world survival shooter, patch 1.2 is so gargantuan that the Steam update doesn’t actually list the entire changelog. Described simply as “a…
Board game enthusiast and NYU Game Center teacher Geoff Engelstein was stunned to find, while trawling the archives of celebrated author Kurt Vonnegut at Indiana University, evidence that in 1956 Vonnegut developed, and spent a year pitching, a board wargame to publishers. Alongside the letters, Engelstein found an original, complete set of rules for GHQ:…
Planet Coaster 2 has been quietly expanding its virtual theme parks since the sequel launched last November. Just before Christmas, the game’s first major update enhanced the simulation of its new flume rides, and improved the user interface—one of the main sources of criticism from the community on launch. Now, a second update has splashed…
I never cease to be amazed at the modding community’s ability to make PC games bigger, better, and in many cases weirder. But the love shown by modder KingDavidW to Arkane’s pre-Dishonored hack ‘n’ slash Dark Messiah of Might and Magic goes above and beyond. As recently outlined in a lengthy update on ModDB, KingDavidW…
The developer of independent military shooter Operation: Harsh Doorstop has waded into the thorny topic of streamers and YouTubers getting paid for positive coverage of video games, taking specific issue with content creators who accept large payments for producing positive reviews of one game, then disparage other, similar games that they haven’t been paid directly…
Kick off your weekend with a win: today’s Wordle answer is only a quick click away if you need it, or if you’d just like to instantly fill the first row with green letters. We’ve got a hint for the February 15 (1337) Wordle just below to, here to give you some fresh ideas and…
Need to know What is it? A turn-based road trip RPG set in the early 2000sExpect to pay: $17.99/£15.00Developer: YCJY GamesPublisher: YCJY GamesReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Steam I grew up in a town with nearly no public transportation, so for most of my childhood I walked,…
This week, Blizzard threw a curveball at Overwatch 2 fans just a few months shy of its ninth anniversary. As of next week, Overwatch 2’s static heroes will level up throughout a match with mini-skill trees. Blizzard calls them perks, and based on my playtime with them, they’re the single largest shakeup of Overwatch’s format…
Just two weeks after launching on Steam, “multiplayer extraction survival horror” shooter Level Zero: Extraction has reached the end of the road. In a message posted to Steam, community manager Antishyr said the game has “underperformed compared to our expectations,” and thus “it’s no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game…