PC Gaming
Two or three times a year Steam hosts a Next Fest, where every developer and their mom posts a demo of an upcoming or in-development game. They’re awesome, generally speaking, ranging from fantastically broken and hysterically bad to outrageously good and perfectly polished. During Next Fest you can almost always find some indie gem or…
If I’d been asked this morning to guess what’s been going on in Ark: Survival Ascended, the survival game with dinosaurs, and my options were “they added some new dinosaurs” or “they made a Mickey Mouse sidescroller in it,” I definitely would’ve been wrong. This week, Studio Wildcard updated the Ark Development Kit mod tools…
Palworld developer Pocketpair is pouring nearly a half-million dollars every month into keeping the game’s servers up, which it can afford to do because Palworld is a massive hit. But it still needs help in the form of people, and rather like Gary Oldman in Leon, it’s looking for all the help it can get….
Despite a slew of curious Steam updates that have Elden Ring fans vibrating with anticipation for an imminent DLC release, FromSoftware’s parent company, Kadokawa, has stepped in to crush those dreams. In an FAQ section from a recent financial report, the company gave an update about the development status of Elden Ring’s Shadow of the…
Helldivers 2, the co-op shooter from the makers of Magicka, is enjoying a way bigger launch than any of us were expecting. Despite some technical issues Arrowhead Games is still grappling with, we’re enjoying Helldivers‘ excellent shooting and smart brutality. It’s easy to pick up, hard to master, and has a lot more going on…
Cryptmaster (Image credit: Paul Hart, Lee Williams, Akupara Games) This week I downloaded more than 10 different demos during Steam Next Fest, a pile of hobby homework that would have given me the sweats in past years. But this time I found myself neither stressed nor pressed to play through them all. Don’t get me…
Hideo Kojima has relaunched the Hideo Kojima YouTube show ‘HideoTube’, a Hideo Kojima production starring Hideo Kojima. Okay I’ll stop with the obvious jokes, but this is a new episode (“The HideoTube 2024 special”, no less) in a series that stopped shortly after the creator’s acrimonious departure from Konami, and the first new entry in…
Hours of grinding for Diablo 4’s rarest and most powerful items, Uber Uniques, won’t guarantee you’ll get the one you actually want. I’m in this situation right now. I’ve killed the boss who drops them almost 100 times and he refuses to give me the one I need. But next week, my bad luck with…
AI-generated voices can be good, or they can be bad—as Witcher voice actor Doug Cockle said, it really all comes down to the intent of the user. How to effectively address the potential for misuse is a big question, but the US Federal Communications Commission has now taken a step to crack down on at…
We used to complain that we were in a game demo drought, and now we complain that we’re drowning in them. It’s a good problem to have, but there genuinely isn’t enough time to play all of the demos available during any given Steam Next Fest—the current one ends on Monday—so some prioritization is in…