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The nice thing about letting a multiplayer shooter marinate for a few weeks before putting a score on it is that I’ve learned what being high and low on Marathon is like. NEED TO KNOW What is it An extraction shooter revival of Bungie’s first FPS series.Release date March 5, 2026Expect to pay $40/£30Publisher SonyDeveloper…
Slay the Spire 2 was an immediate success, delivering a top-selling launch day performance. But as more data emerges, it’s become increasingly clear that Slay the Spire 2’s launch is a historic record-setter. According to Newzoo, PC Gamer’s official data partner, StS 2 is the best-performing deckbuilder of all time—and it’s leading by a massive…
Just over a month after Sony confirmed the closure of its renowned remaster studio Bluepoint Games, it’s now pulled the plug on Dark Outlaw Games, founded by Call of Duty veteran Jason Blundell and announced to the world just a year ago. Word of the closure first appeared on Resetera, which said Dark Outlaw was…
Someone check on the Skyrim Nexus Mods, users because one of the most popular mods has reappeared with a new update after nine years. SkyUI was last updated in 2017 for the release of Skyrim Special Edition, and then it went dormant. Years went by and it remained the best choice for making the game’s…
Starbreeze has something new cooking on the Payday front and, well, it’s a VR game—Payday: Aces High, a co-op heist game like the others in the series, but “built specifically for virtual reality, bringing the planning, teamwork and signature chaos of a Payday heist to a fully immersive format.” Payday: Aces High does look very…
Mark Zuckerberg, the visionary who burnt tens of billions of dollars on a failed metaverse and is furnishing millions of the world’s sex pests with surveillance goggles, is working on removing the biggest hurdle standing between himself and the pursuit of even more of his excellent plans: Having to interact with his fellow man. Per…
“Hark Elm! We’ve been missing you back at the party, it’s such a shame you got laid off,” reads a scroll on my desk in the opening minutes of Dungeon Bodega Simulator. “I heard you opened a shop! What a quaint way to bounce back, I’ll try and stop by next time we adventure in…
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra said this week that “AI, in one form or another, will be in every single video game,” so there’s no point in a developer apologizing for using it. “I don’t get why devs feel the need to bend over for the few folks who can’t accept the reality that AI…
Friendslop’s officially made its way to Fortnite, as physics-based climbing ‘sim’ Peak now has a set of skins in Epic’s battle royale. That should be music to my ears, as Peak’s cheery scouts are impossible to hate—just look at their little faces! While they’re slightly less cute in Fortnite’s style, in large part down to…
Disco Elysium is, and you know I mean this as a compliment, perhaps the most commie goddamn game I’ve ever played. The melancholy Marxism comes off it in waves, and no wonder: so many of its now-departed writers were some flavour of radical, with lead writer Robert Kurvitz describing aspects of the game’s story as…