PC Gaming
LINCOLN CARPENTER, NEWS WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Spent a lot of time meditating on cool robots. Online conversations about videogames have been strange lately. More so than usual, I mean. In pockets scattered around the internet, there’s been a pervasive fixation on the sense that some people, somewhere, might not love Crimson Desert—a…
428: Shibuya Scramble is an early pioneer of detective gaming, a visual novel set in Japan’s Shibuya ward that uses live action photographs and a complex timeline mechanic to present its crime narrative. Originally launching in 2008 for the Wii, it was released on Steam a decade later, garnering ‘Very Positive’ reviews and a cult…
Marathon‘s Cryo Archive endgame map is stuffed with juicy, high-tier loot for Runners to shove into their backpacks. But by far the most prized item in Bungie’s formidable lose everything factory is the Biotoxic Disinjector. This unique red-tier weapon, acquired by defeating Marathon’s endgame boss The Compiler, can incinerate rival Runners with a laser beam…
Good art generally requires risk-taking and good business is generally risk-averse—sucks for you if you’re trying to make a big budget videogame based on one of the most popular movie series ever made in a relatively niche game genre, but them’s the breaks. Unless you’re Bit Reactor, of course, then you’re doing just that. Founder…
If you’ve played an RPG before, I’m sure you’re familiar with the associated plot clichés: golden boy protagonist takes on a death-defying quest, and along the road picks up several total strangers who become his best friends in record time (bonus points if one or a few of them fall in love with the player…
The elevator pitch behind Robot Cache is simple: what if there was a digital storefront like Steam, but you could sell games to other users once you had finished playing them? Oh, and it was all powered by the blockchain. Sorry to spoil the ending, but it didn’t end up making much of a splash…
Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where I celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I love Neverwinter Nights. I would count myself among the top 100, maybe even top 50 fans in the world of this joint…
AI is coming to take my job, so I’d better start looking for a new one. Luckily, there are a ton of job simulators on Steam, and I’m going to play as many as I can until I find my next career. This week’s job: PBA Pro Bowling 2026, a bowling sim about bowling. As…
Umamusume: Pretty Derby took the internet by storm after its global launch in June last year, kicking off a whole new Western fanbase for the anime racing horse girl genre..I was amongst the crowd that got swept up in its surprisingly in-depth career mode, training my beloved Oguri Cap trained as hard as I possibly…
Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week: I was trying to make a dent in Crimson Desert. This week: I’m still trying. What is Crimson Desert? Genuinely, that’s not rhetorical. After 150 hours galavanting across the continent of Pywel—though, in truth, mostly the first region of Hernand—I still find myself struggling to…