PC Gaming
Clue, or Cluedo for non-Americans, is my favorite family board game. (Great movie too.) It’s the kind of thing you can bring out when you’re not playing with people who know every Catan expansion front-to-back and are halfway through some giant legacy game and have like three Kickstarters they’re waiting on. Clue is a game…
Helldivers 2 launched on Steam today and unfortunately seems to have got off to a bit of a shaky start network-wise: the reviews are currently “mixed,” and the mood music is that people are enjoying the game but deeply frustrated by connection issues. The studio admits it’s in “crisis mode” and at the time of…
You think Gordon Freeman had it tough? Dude never had to stop what he was doing and run to the bathroom to poop while fighting his way through interdimensional monsters and psychotic marines in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Ol’ heroic Gordo was also pretty content to get the help of a bunch of science…
Skull and Bones costs $60, or your local equivalent, and that’s a hefty price tag for something that bears the trappings of a live-service game, including an in-game store, battle pass, seasonal events, and premium currency. But Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot defended the cost in an investors call today, saying the high price is warranted…
You might pay real money for in-game currency, but Take-Two Interactive says that doesn’t make it real: In a filing seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging “civil theft” and unfair business practices in its NBA 2K games, Take-Two said virtual currencies (VCs) are not property but are “fictions” created by game makers, and subject…
At a time when classic PC games are more accessible than ever, the Discworld trilogy of adventure games has remained frustratingly elusive. Based on Terry Pratchett’s long-running comic fantasy series, the three adventure games—Discworld, Discworld 2, and Discworld Noir, were developed by Perfect Entertainment and released between 1995 and 1999. Perfect shut down shortly after…
The original Helldivers was a fun little twin-stick shooter that flew under the radar, but its 3D sequel is proving to be a much bigger deal. On launch day, Helldivers 2 is the top selling game on Steam with a respectable peak of 64,000 concurrent players. Judging by my first hour, it’s very fun, but…
In response to concerns that arose after publisher Krafton said the upcoming Subnautica 2 will feature co-op mulitplayer built on the “games-as-a-service model,” developer Unknown Worlds has clarified that it won’t be very different from the early access releases of the previous games in the series, and that there will be no battle passes or…
The list of changes coming to Overwatch 2 next week are bigger than anything Blizzard has done since the introduction of 5v5. In some ways, it’s a new era for the hero shooter that has struggled to find its footing in the year since its release. To start, Blizzard is increasing health pools across the…
I’d made up my mind about loving the alien planet cozy mech homesteading game Lightyear Frontier as soon as I saw its first trailer. After playing the demo in this week’s Steam Next Fest, and talking to Frame Break’s CEO Joakim Kopriva Hedström, I’ve not changed my mind. But it turns out that it isn’t…