PC Gaming
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…
One year after the Steam Next Fest demo for Dark and Darker become one of the biggest games on Steam, another extraction-dungeon-crawler called Dungeonborne—first teased in September 2023 as Project Crawl—is replicating the feat with gameplay that looks a whole lot like its predecessor. Dungeonborne’s premise is simple: Pick a fantasy character class, team up…
One of the first things I realized playing the early access release of city builder New Cycle was that it was pretty broken. Not broken as in buggy, though there are bugs, but mechanically. The numbers are off in some way, too big or too small or too strangely punitive. It took me a while…
Go Mecha Ball is one of those games you can just look at and know that it feels great to play. Movement so slick that the controls feel like second nature from the moment you pick up a controller, levels built to make you roll, roll roll until you reach the finish. After watching the…
The South Korean Supreme Court has upheld an 18-month prison sentence imposed on a South Korean man who refused to attend military service after being drafted (as reported by the Korea Herald and spotted by GamesRadar+). The length of the sentence is deliberate: 18 months of military service is mandatory for all able-bodied South Korean…
CD Projekt Red may be done adding new features to Cyberpunk 2077, but the studio isn’t completely finished with the game yet. It’s still issuing patches to fix bugs and further refine both the core game’s much-improved experience and its excellent expansion Phantom Liberty. The latest patch, 2.11, makes a wide array of tweaks and…
To the casual observer, the story of the next version of Windows seems to be slowly turning into a 1990s-style sitcom: Will it come out in 2024? Will it be called Windows 12? Will it be full of AI gimmicks? Will Copilot finally get that date with Monica? Adding to the never-ending mystery of it…
Ubisoft’s long-awaited and much delayed pirate adventure Skull and Bones has been elusive not just in terms of its release date, but in what kind of game it actually is. First it was a match-based, multiplayer exclusive affair, then it was going to feature multiple game modes including single-player, and now it’s supposed to be…
Project Arroyo is another one of those hugely ambitious attempts by fans to remake a classic RPG in one of Bethesda’s newer engines, much like Skywind and Skyblivion, but with Fallout rather than the Elder Scrolls. Specifically, Arroyo takes aim at Black Isle’s Fallout 2, hoping to bring New California into the modern age by…