PC Gaming
It’s not often that I get to call a cyberpunk cityscape “cozy” but chill building game Dystopika describes itself as “the dark side of cozy,” if you find neon-streaked skylines to be soothing. I’ve taken this city building toy for a spin in its new demo, which you can try for yourself on Steam this…
“The Halo TV series has absolutely no vibes,” we wrote back in 2022 when the show debuted on Paramount+ with a nine episode season. It was the kind of adaptation that didn’t quite seem to please anyone. Halo fans grumbled that Master Chief took his helmet off too much and that the show was ultimately…
I was having such a good time with the demo for Magical Delicacy that I said “aw…” out loud when I realized I’d completed it. It’s a “Metroidvania-inspired wholesome cooking game” where you’re also a witch, because why not? You can play the hour-ish long demo yourself until February 12 as part of this week’s…
Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner Mae recorded her first world record playthrough before most of us were out of the character creator. Now she’s appeared at AGDQ, retained the any% title with some back-and-forth jousting, and secured world records in three more BG3 speedrun categories: All ActsAll Acts on the extra hard, permadeath Honour mode difficultyThe…
It’s been an interesting couple of years for Henry Cavill, the Superman-turned-Witcher actor who, in a shockingly brief run of bad luck, ended up out of both jobs. But he landed on his feet at the head of a new Warhammer 40,000 “cinematic universe,” and in a new interview with Josh Horowitz he said there’s…
The Steam Next Fest is now underway and that means we’ve got an awful lot of game demos to plow through in a very short amount of time. One early standout I’ve run is a metroidvania called Tales of Kenzara: Zau, a story about a shaman in the land of Kenzara attempting to reclaim his…
I’m not much of a magic user in survival RPG Enshrouded. I carry a magic wand so I have a ranged attack ready if I run out of arrows, and I have a decent staff I can use to fling fireballs, but my build is more of a survivalist tank: lots of points in HP,…
Evidence is mounting that Microsoft will release a host of its Xbox console exclusives on PlayStation, potentially marking the end of a tradition nearly as old as the medium: the viciously partisan console war. Xbox head Phil Spencer has tacitly acknowledged the rumors and reports too, and if the partial end of Xbox console exclusivity…
The year’s only just started, and the tree-punching genre is dominating. Palworld’s astonishing 19 million players makes Enshrouded’s million look modest, but both can be called 2024 early access survival crafting hits. Can the genre go three-for-three? Nightingale, out in early access on February 22, is yet another survival game on lots of people’s Steam…
A new achievement tied to World of Warcraft’s annual Valentine’s Day-themed event might be one of the most transparent gold sinks in the MMO’s history. For the next two weeks, players who are carrying around 70,000 gold, can toss it straight into the void for 10 achievement points and the sting of being played. To…