Civilization 7 is off to a rocky start as it receives ‘Mixed’ Steam reviews from its premium backers: ‘Comparing this unfinished mess to the Civ 6 release is night and day’

Civilization 7’s full launch is still a few days away, but the strategy sequel unlocked earlier today for players who purchased its Founders edition. We’ve been especially intrigued by how this latest entry would be received by fans due to its radical shakeup of the formula. Sadly, the general response so far has been one…

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says it deliberately avoids the ‘instant gratification’ of modern games, channelling the best of Bethesda like Morrowind and Oblivion

I was approximately 3.7 seconds into my playthrough of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 before I muttered to myself ‘Huh, pretty Oblivion-y’. This is the second-highest praise I can offer a videogame, right beneath ‘Huh, pretty Morrowind-y,’ which I went onto say almost verbatim in our KCD2 review. Turns out I wasn’t just seeing old-Bethesda-shaped ghosts…

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 review

Need to Know What is it? A web-swingin’ superhero sequel.Release date Jan 30, 2025Expect to pay $60/£50Developer Insomniac Games, Nixxes SoftwarePublisher PlayStation Publishing LLCReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck TBALink Official site In its first Spider-Man game, developer Insomniac already got the most important thing right: the feel…

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‘No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep’: World of Warcraft takes a cheeky potshot at Final Fantasy 14’s egregious housing system as it readies up to unleash its own

It only took two decades, but Blizzard is finally adding player housing to World of Warcraft, which’ll be coming with the Midnight expansion. That’s still a ways away, but that hasn’t stopped Blizzard from doing a big ol’ blog post diving into the developer’s core principles for the process, with enough word count to throw…

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Disco Elysium game director Robert Kurvitz praises the first Fallout: ‘It makes other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park’

Independent publisher Verso Books recently published Marijam Did’s Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World, and to promote that work Did has been streaming with game designers. First she played Wolfenstein: Youngblood with Josh Sawyer, and now she’s played the original Fallout with Disco Elysium’s game director Robert Kurvitz while chatting about…

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