PC Gaming
For years, it seemed like Castlevania was dead and buried. But with last night’s reveal of Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse during Sony’s State of Play stream, Konami’s long-neglected saga of ghoul-whipping and vampire daddy drama is bursting back out of the coffin—in a Dracula-like fashion, I suppose you could say. While an all-new 2D Castlevania from…
Mewgenics, the cat-breeding roguelite from Binding of Isaac developer Edmund McMillen and co-creator Tyler Glaiel, has some uncanny meow sounds. That’s because they’re actually just humans saying “meow,” not cats, which is probably for the best given what happens to all the poor kitties in the game. There’s a long list of cameo performances from…
Nutmeg is one of those games that, if you’re in the target demographic, sells itself on the title screen. Pure Roy of the Rovers and Panini vibes, with a flaming football streaking across the middle to put an exclamation point on “Nutmeg!” I am a man in his mid-forties who’s followed football since I was…
There was a long period of time where the phrase ‘ray tracing’ was almost inescapable and slapped onto all the prettiest-looking games. However, as the memory crisis continues to devastate hardware prices, and game performance gets even more unpredictable, optimised games have become a real sign of a quality launch. And now, ray tracing is…
PC gaming is an incredibly expensive hobby. Before we can even get into how much full-price games will set you back these days, there’s the not-so-little matter of having the hardware to play them on. Sure, if you’re an indie fiend, you’re probably not fussed about having the most up-to-date rig—but, as the memory crisis…
I’m old enough to remember when plug-and-play USB microphones were rubbish. Your alternative, however, was the murky, audio nerd-inhabited world of XLR, which required the use of a separate interface to connect a microphone to your PC. XLR is still the gold standard for professional recording gear, but the world of studio-style recording can be…
I adore the Yakuza games. You explore a small slice of Tokyo, get into constant OTT fistfights, and help weirdos with bizarre problems. Like, say, distracting a bunch of children so a living statue can sneak off to take a dump without traumatising them. 2009’s Yakuza 3 sees recurring protagonist Kazuma Kiryu quitting the yakuza…
Fallout, so the large box that PC games used to come in when life was good tells me, is a post-nuclear roleplaying game. It’s also, it turns out, a post-nuclear tabletop roleplaying game, a fact I think I’ve never really consciously registered until now. But it’s fixed in my mind now, because Humble is selling…
10 Chambers, the developer of GTFO and the upcoming Den of Wolves, has confirmed a “large number” of layoffs at the studio as a result of restructuring, including several of its co-founders. The layoffs initially came to light on LinkedIn (via Game Developer), where multiple employees reported being let go by the studio. Around the…