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Review-bombing campaigns are often motivated by half-baked culture war “controversies” about trans characters, queer developers, or supposed mafias of liberal writing consultants bending multi-million dollar companies to their will. Last May, though, we saw a great example of the review bomb’s utility in pushing back on a genuine consumer grievance: Helldivers 2’s PlayStation Network sign-in…
Have you ever wanted your Discord client to look like it was made in the halcyon days of the mid-to-late 1990s? Complete with windows form buttons and gradient-blue topbar? Of course you have. One crew of programmers have cooked up just that as a cute project: They call it… Discord Messenger for Windows! It’s a…
Speaking to VideoGamer, Blizzard co-founder and Diablo programmer/designer David Brevik expressed a dim view of the current state of Diablo-like ARPGs, arguing that inflated enemy numbers and a deluge of loot and experience have robbed the genre of the friction and weight present in the first two Diablo games. “I think that ARPGs in general…
Yesterday evening, the Ask PlayStation support account on Twitter declared an end to this weekend’s strange PlayStation Network outage, almost 24 hours on the dot after the issues first began. Sony is offering five free days of PS Plus (the paid component of PlayStation Network) as recompense, while Capcom has said that it may offer…
The Elden Ring Seamless Co-op mod is one of the best unofficial addons for FromSoftware’s fantasy RPG. Not only does it let you traverse the Lands Between with pals, but it also frees you from the usual constraints of FromSoft multiplayer. As our own Wes Fenlon enthused last year, the mod “makes Elden Ring feel…
Abiotic Factor’s Dark Energy update is so vast and comprehensive it opened a rift right into The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, where developer Deep Field Games revealed the new faction, new gizmos, and enormous new area coming to the Half-Life inspired survival game. Indeed, it was large enough that the studio delayed the update…
It’s been a hectic week for throwback game specialist and Bloodborne superfan Lilith Walther. The designer behind Nightmare Kart revealed a nifty-looking expansion for her brilliant Bloodborne spoof a few days ago, which brings sniper rifles and harpies to its cosmic horror karting. Yet around the same time, Sony took a threaded cane to her…
What’s the best Alien game after Alien: Isolation? No, it isn’t Aliens: Dark Descent, though that is an excellent real-time tactics take on James Cameron’s sequel. Neither is it Alien: Rogue Incursion, Survios’ recent VR spin on Isolation. The answer is, of course, Duskers, the 2016 indie game about scavenging derelict spacecraft using drones controlled…
Take a look at our Wordle tips if you’d like to refresh your daily puzzle solving, then use everything you learn there to help you make the most of the hint for today’s Wordle. Don’t worry about spoilers—our clue is supposed to give you a boost, not give the game away. Although if that sounds…
If I were presented with the opportunity to purchase and place into my disk drive a very obviously cursed CD from 1995 I would simply not do so. This is, of course, what sets me apart from the protagonist of Forbidden Solitaire, a person who would put a cursed disk into their computer and pay…