PC Gaming
At today’s Microsoft developer direct, we finally got a good, long look at RPG powerhouse Obsidian’s upcoming game, Avowed. The studio gave an eight-minute presentation of the first person spinoff of the Pillars of Eternity series, including an early game quest, a breakdown of its new combat system, and a fall 2024 release window. That…
During Microsoft’s Developer Direct event on Thursday, developer Ninja Theory announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is out May 21st. “Senua is on the trail of the Vikings who’ve been enslaving her people,” says writer Lara Derham. That brings her to Iceland, where she’ll be fighting “giants who’ve plunged the lands into chaos, which in turns…
The seemingly endless litany of layoffs that’s plagued the game industry through 2023 and into 2024 continued today as two more studios have confirmed cuts to their workforces: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has let 40 employees go, while Lord of the Fallen publisher CI Games has reduced its workforce by 10%. The CI…
Townscaper is one of those small snatches of joy I heavily associate with the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020. The stress-free city builder was a tiny game that became a huge sensation that summer. Like other collective obsessions of that year, it inspired a trend that’s only now truly coming to fruition. Although Townscaper’s developer Oskar…
I was morally obligated to keep an eye on Palworld. I’ve been playing Pokémon on and off for four fifths of my time on this Earth. I’m a card-carrying Dwarf Fortress weirdo, which Palworld’s lead dev has cited as his favorite game. Ignoring Palworld would’ve been a dereliction of professional duty. Now that I’ve spent…
Call of Duty has a new shortcut for mouse and keyboard users trying to activate aim assist: Alt + F4. According to a tweet posted to the official Call of Duty Updates Twitter account Tuesday, the game has buffed up its security systems to automatically kill your game—as in MW3.exe itself—if it catches you using…
Cult of the Lamb‘s latest free update has gone through a bit of a journey. After the community decided its title, Sins of the Flesh, meant it was going to be the “sex update”, developer Massive Monster had to put the rumour to rest. But then the studio said they’d make their players’ deviant dreams…
Mastodon, the social media site that seems to survive by virtue of the fact that Twitter is now rubbish, has seen a number of popular accounts from the ex-blue bird move over to its platform, where they can live out their days in relative freedom. One such account is the BBC Micro Bot (via The…
I feel like a dedicated Old School RuneScape player conquers a new Everest every week. There’s the player who grinded 149 hours of a terrible minigame to get a raccoon, the player who beat one in a hundred million odds to obtain a not particularly noteworthy gem, the guy who caught a million sub-par fish,…
Finding Pal Fluids is an important step in building up your base in Palworld. This material will let you construct a Hotspring where your Pals can relax after a tiring day of manual toil, which is vital in maintaining their sanity. If Pal sanity starts to slip, they’ll start acting grumpy, or straight up refuse…