PC Gaming
When it was announced that Baldur’s Gate 3 would have turn-based combat unlike its predecessors, I reacted like the little girl with the frog from The Cabin in the Woods: “The evil has been defeated!” Our long national nightmare was over. And by “nightmare” I mean games expecting us to control an entire party of…
Browse through Steam’s unfiltered list of new games and you’ll encounter at least one or two games made in RPG Maker every week. Few of these projects reach the popularity of something like Yume Nikki or Omori, and I’m guessing many are never played at all. But I love that a relatively simple toolset is…
Like most TTRPG actual-play series, Dimension 20 usually runs Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition—though they have recorded seasons where they roleplay using the Kids on Bikes and Kids on Broomsticks rules, as well as their own homebrew system. Their next season marks the first time they’ve partnered with a publisher to make official use of…
Even the World of Warcraft players who compete at the highest level succumb to the same mistakes as the rest of us. A pro player competing in the world first race for the recently released Midnight expansion was kicked back out to the login screen during a boss fight because he forgot to renew his…
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek, who left the company in 2017 and whose credits include the Half-Life 2 episodes, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, has taken aim at Epic over the latest round of swingeing layoffs imposed by the company. Over 1000 people are out of a job, while…
Whatever else one can say about Elon Musk, the guy employs some incredibly talented engineers, and the latest update from the Neuralink project is like something from the future. A major goal for Neuralink is improving the lives of people with severe disabilities up to full-body paralysis, and now the 18th participant (in what is…
Bit Reactor’s long-rumored Star wars tactics game, Zero Company, finally got a formal reveal last year, but we still didn’t know many details about this Clone Wars-era black ops story—until now. I got about 4.5 hours of hands-on time with Zero Company, plus several interviews with the dev team—you can read my full write up…
The new project from Ryu Ga Gotoku was given an airing at today’s Xbox Partner Preview showcase. Formerly known as Project Century, part of what attracted me to Stranger than Heaven when it was shown last year was that it seemed to be disconnected from the Yakuza / Like a Dragon series, which is something…
It’s the end of the line for the excellent vampire survival game V Rising: Not quite two years after release, developer Stunlock Studios says “the journey to Dracula is a complete one as it stands,” and no further content updates are planned. The good news is that it’s working on something new instead, set in…
Supergiant isn’t done with Hades 2 yet. In a surprisingly spicy new trailer for the action RPG’s console release, eagle-eyed fans caught a glimpse of a scene they’ve never seen before. That scene will be part of the “bonus content and quality-of-life improvements” update coming to PC alongside the console release on April 14, Supergiant…