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You might be all trailered out after one of the most exciting Game Awards lineups in the show’s 10-year history, but one of the coolest game announcements of the past week actually happened outside Geoff Keighley’s gameapalooza: Covenant, a dark fantasy, first person FPS-RPG whose devs boast some impressive shooter bona fides, as well as…

Y’all ever settle in to read some patch notes and they just keep going and eventually you start only reading the headings and keep scrolling and they just keep going so you stop reading entirely and just scroll as fast as you can until they end? Yeah, that’s how long the latest patch notes for…

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow (Image credit: Wadjet Eye) Developer: Cloak and DaggerYear: 20122 The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow isn’t the scariest horror game I’ve ever played, but it might be the most disarming. The most powerful tool in its…

THE PCG Q&A Find all previous editions of the PCG Q&A here. Some highlights:– What’s a weird quirk your PC has?– What are your most-played games on Steam, and why have you spent so many hours on them?– Have you learned a real-world skill from a game? Imagine an alignment diagram. On one extreme you…

Like more than a few people out there, my first reaction to Elden Ring Nightreign was “ah crap, it’s a multiplayer thing.” But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I came to realize there’s not only a lot to be excited about with Nightreign, it’s also pretty much the experience a lot of…

Elden Ring’s co-op focused spinoff, Nightreign, is set to release sometime in 2025, but thanks to Nightreign’s official website, we now know that its pre-launch network test will be held in February. The bad news is that it looks like this test will only be accessible on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles. On the official…

There are a few things in FromSoftware’s RPGs that just sear themselves into the brain. The enormous sound effect that plays when you backstab an enemy; the YOU DIED text appearing on screen the first time you get pulverized by a boss; the white phantoms of other players appearing near safe havens, giving you the…

There was once a dark time when truly retro dungeon crawlers—especially those descended from the more action-oriented Dungeon master—seemed practically extinct. But ever since Legend of Grimrock, they’ve had a resurgence and we’ve been spoiled with choice. The latest indie challenger to the real-time looting and levelling crown is Tower of Mask, from Japanese solo…

Most RPGs have you out to save the world, or at least resolve some personal stakes, claim a macguffin or complete a prophecy. Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG (just launched into early access) seems happy to let you pick your own goals in a procedurally generated world, as morally questionable as those goals may be. As…

Use today’s clue to supercharge your opening guess, or to help you make sense of the yellow letters you’ve picked up as you work your way down Saturday’s Wordle. And don’t worry if those winning greens still aren’t turning up, or aren’t turning up as quickly as you’d like—the December 14 (1274) answer’s only a…