PC Gaming
The ghost of Gothic is everywhere. A direct ancestor of Kingdom Come: Deliverance and The Witcher, Gothic was the ultimate eurojank RPG, an ambitious if flawed reminder of a school of open world design that predates maps full of repeatable activities. Gothic’s map didn’t have icons on it. It was a believable in-world item you…
It’s wild to think the developers of Redneck Rampage—a game I enjoyed at the time because I was a kid, not because it was anything special—went on to make the much more well-received Return to Castle Wolfenstein, resurrecting id’s abandoned FPS and laying down the foundations for its modern revival. If you’re playing Return to…
As reported by IGN, Assassin’s Creed Hexe game director Benoit Richer has left the project. Richer is the second director-level developer to leave the team this year, with creative director Clint Hocking having departed in February. Richer announced his career move on LinkedIn. According to the website for Servo Games, Richer is a cofounder of…
We all have our guys, the true freaks and sickos online who it feels like only we know about, whose trials and travails move us in ways we can scarcely explain. Replica sword reviewers, world-class competitors in niche sports, historical reenactors with hearts of gold—you know, your guys. One such guy, for me, is eauvni,…
Vampire Survivors continues to be a huge deal, and publisher poncle has grown massively since its release in 2022. In an interview with The Game Business, the studio’s chief strategy officer Matteo Sapio talked about the smash hit that now has over 27 million players—and what it’s planning to do with all that dough. “Vampire…
As reported by Newsweek and Wired, suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, Cole Thomas Allen, had previously attempted a career as an independent game developer, and has a single game available for purchase on Steam: Bohrdom. The self-described asymmetric fighting game’s reviews and discussion forums quickly became a hotbed of political debate and dubious meme-making…
I never expected to see “I got reincarnated… as a hamster!” as the opening words of a game’s description on Steam. After crossing that dread threshold, I certainly didn’t expect to see a banner on the same page warning me about “frequent nudity or sexual content.” But here we are: grass grows, sun shines, and…
Despite the massively multiplayer angle, MMOs can be quite lonely games—and if you play them for very long, you’ll learn there are plenty of people who play them specifically to solo as much as they can. That can mean casually clearing the story or going sicko mode by killing a raid boss intended for a…
Erik Wolpaw’s first encounter with computer gaming was on a TRS-80 in his high-school library. “It was one of the Scott Adams adventures. I don’t remember the exact name, but it’s the haunted mansion one,” Wolpaw says. “They are very crude at this point, but at the time I couldn’t believe it, and that was…
Marathon is a game about loss, though not in the traditional PlayStation Studios fashion. There are no sad dads on Tau Ceti IV, unless you count the various corporate AIs still pining after the failed colony they funded. Rather, Marathon is about the potential for loss—the furrowing fear that sits on your brow every time…