Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League reveals its first season, featuring a playable Joker from another universe—a camp, insecure 20-something with a rocket umbrella

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped a third entry into its sequence of insider episodes with a big reveal—in the game’s first season, you’ll get to play as da Joker, baby.  As posted to the Warner Bros. Games YouTube Channel, the diary goes into a few notable bits of information—like three seasons that’ll…

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Former Pokémon legal chief says Palworld ‘looks like the usual ripoff nonsense I would see a thousand times a year ‘ and he’s ‘surprised it got this far’

Palworld is Pokémon with guns. So much so, in fact, that in its four days on the market it’s already been accused of straight-up ripping off the Nintendo franchise by various internet detectives, a claim the developer called “slanderous.” But it’s not just internet commenters who have taken notice of Palworld and its gajillions of…

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Obsidian’s next big RPG Avowed is looking to Vermintide’s ‘masterclass in having a sense of hitting and impact’ to make its first-person sword-swinging feel weighty

Obsidian (the studio behind Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas, and The Outer Worlds) released an extended gameplay trailer diving into its first-person RPG Avowed last week. PC Gamer’s own Ted Litchfield sat down with both the game’s director Carrie Patel and the gameplay director Gabe Paramo to talk shop. First-person melee combat is hard…

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Obsidian’s Avowed is going ‘classless’, ditching Pillars of Eternity’s crunchy stat-heavy builds in favour of Skyrim-like ability trees

I was downright gleeful when I learnt that Avowed—Obsidian’s upcoming first-person fantasy RPG—was set in the Pillars of Eternity world of Eora. If there’s one thing I’m perpetually a bit mad about, it’s that the Pillars games didn’t do much, much better than they did (If there’s a second, it’s that Tyranny somehow managed to…

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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review

Need to know What is it? The second turn-based JRPG in the Like A Dragon/Yakuza series Expect to pay £59.99/$69.99 Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Publisher Sega Reviewed on Windows 11, Nvidia 4090, Intel i9-13900k, 64gb DDR5 RAM Steam Deck Playable Link Official site  Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth feels indulgent in a way few…

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This Bed We Made review

Need to Know What is it? An amateur detective game where your snooping can get you into trouble. Release date November 1, 2023 Expect to pay $25/£21 Developer Lowbirth Games Publisher Lowbirth Games Reviewed on ASUS ROG Zephyrus G gaming laptop Steam Deck Playable Link Official site At time of writing, I’ve never been employed…

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The state of FF14 going into 2024: Endwalker’s post-launch experiments proved a failure—still, there’s never been a better time to get started

Final Fantasy 14 is a game that’s tumbling through the air, and it really needs to stick the next landing. With its main competitor World of Warcraft being decent again, it can’t coast on an updraft of ‘Shadowlands refugees’ anymore.  Endwalker’s main story quest was a triumph, yet as far as the ‘MMORPG’ part of…

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MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X review

Super January continues! The RTX 4070 Ti Super is the second of Nvidia’s RTX 40-series Super refresh cards. It joins the already released RTX 4070 Super, with the RTX 4080 Super to follow a week later. While all three deliver healthy spec and performance upgrades, interestingly, this RTX 4070 Ti Super is the only one…

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Tekken 8 review

Need to Know What is it? A thrilling 3D fighter with bears, devils and giant robots. Release date January 26, 2024 Expect to pay $60 / £55 Developer Bandai Namco Studios Inc. Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment Reviewed on Nvidia GeForce RTX3070, AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 32GB RAM Steam Deck TBA Link Official site  Tekken 8…

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