PC Gaming
You can probably guess what my expectations were for Bears in Space. I’ll give you a clue: there were two of them and they both feature in the title. So I was surprised when, about an hour in, I was embroiled in a robot murder investigation. Having spent 60 minutes blasting the plasma-brained automatons that…
Age of Empires 2 fans are no strangers to the game receiving new factions. The Definitive Edition’s curators, Forgotten Empires, have regularly updated the game with new playable civs for years. But it turns out the game’s history of adding unexpected dynasties stretches much farther back in time than 2017, at least according to one…
After more than four years of development, the slapstick driving sim Deliver At All Costs finally has a release date and will let you cause carnage in its ’50s-inspired world in just a couple of months. Developed by Studio Far Out Games, Deliver At All Costs casts players as Winston Green, a struggling courier desperate…
The year is 1984. The game, also, is 1984. The book it’s based on? 1984. The year it came out? 1999, but it might actually be easier to run had it come out 15 years earlier. I am playing—attempting to play—Big Brother, the recently unearthed demo of a doomed, never-released videogame sequel to George Orwell’s…
I’ve played a few Skyrim mods that stank in my time, but none quite like this. Everyone Poops—Mihail’s Shards of Immersion adds actual piles of excrement into Bethesda’s perennial fantasy RPG. “You can now find human feces near and inside some houses, forts and caves,” writes Mihail Mods, the creator of Everyone Poops, which according…
It doesn’t take much to get me thinking about Monolith’s classic FPS FEAR, but it’s barely left my thoughts since Warner Bros’ baffling decision to shut down the veteran studio, which also created games like No One Lives Forever and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Yet it’s Monolith’s 2005 shooter that is my favourite of its…
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The near future plans of many game studios depend on whether or not Grand Theft Auto 6 actually releases this year, and making the wrong guess could be disastrous for some of them, says Ben Porter, director of consulting at games industry intelligence firm Newzoo. “If you’re a game company who’s holding its breath waiting…
If somebody asked me how to make Counter-Strike 2 more casual while still keeping its signature trappings—bomb sites, economy, silent walking, low time-to-kill—I’d first ask why they’re trying to force a square peg into a round hole. There is no such thing as kicking back and “relaxing” with a round of CS2. It’s extremely difficult,…
Fatshark has done a fair bit of fooling around with Darktide’s format offerings lately, with the recent Havoc mode expanding the game’s difficulty options and variance. But while Havoc caters to endgame players looking for a challenge, Mortis Trials—laid out in the latest blog post from community manager StrawHat—are described as “chaotic, with easy access…