PC Gaming
Say the name “Havok,” and I instantly picture the yellow sawblade in the company’s logo. For PC gamers of the 2000s, that logo was a promise: Wonderful things await. But do younger PC gamers know what the name signifies? And do the rest know that the Irish middleware company, made famous through its use in…
By very precisely shooting lasers directly into the eye (do no try this at home), researchers claim it’s possible to experience a color never previously experienced. The five people who have seen the color, which the team calls “olo,” say that it’s a blue-green hue, but more saturated than any blue-green ever seen before. As…
Fret not, Baldur’s Gate 3 fans, because your favorite bug is still in the game even after Larian’s “final” big patch. That’s right: The thing where your character portraits can render misaligned, or with the wrong background, or shirtless, is still around and still really funny. Not long after the patch released one fan that…
Once upon a time I happily handed over $170 (plus shipping and import taxes) for a brand new copy of Ys: The Oath in Felghana for my trusty Windows XP machine. Does that sound like a lot? It certainly felt like a lot at the time, but I didn’t regret my purchase. That was just…
We still don’t know the real name of Gloomwood‘s doctor protagonist, but I’m beginning to suspect it might be ‘Jekyll’ given what he gets up to in the game’s new Research update. This latest addition to New Blood’s Thief-inspired immersive sim folds in some game-changing abilities, which you essentially steal from Gloomwood’s enemies in the…
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…