Slay the Spire 2’s team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering ‘ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don’t exist right now’

In an interview with PC Gamer, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano shared three mysterious plans for new modes that Slay the Spire 2 could see during the next year or two of planned early access development. The roguelike card game is already bigger than its predecessor—the co-op mode alone is a major addition for what…

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Open world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: ‘It’s become more unique’

Every morning, Samson wakes up with an enormous problem pressing on his skull: a debt he can’t afford to pay back. Either he can take extreme measures to reduce the amount he owes—driving getaways, extorting businesses, taking down rival gangsters—or watch the total grow day by day. Should he ultimately fail to come up with…

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Marathon game director says Bungie’s rebalancing ‘god-like’ knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg

Amidst yesterday’s yearly crop of April Fool’s japery, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler broke from seasonal convention on X by sharing an early, fool-free preview of balance adjustments Bungie has planned for upcoming patches in the weeks ahead. With tweaks planned for weapons, attachments, deployables, runner shells, and more, Ziegler said the wide-ranging slate of…

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What will Slay the Spire 2’s final ending be like? ‘I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,’ says Mega Crit

Watch the full interview video above on the PC Gamer YouTube channel, if you prefer. There are many goofy placeholders across Slay the Spire 2, MS Paint-style art pieces that stand in for the finished products that will come later as development progresses through Early Access, which Mega Crit says the game might take between…

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Teamgroup MP44Q 2 TB NVMe SSD review

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked… Honestly, that’s what it feels like writing this review. Teamgroup’s MP44Q PCIe 4.0 SSD has finally landed with me for testing, and it’s a curious little QLC number that, once upon a time, would have offered itself up as a nice, affordable, tantalizing opportunity for any would-be budget…

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Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had ‘no staying power,’ and that can’t be addressed with a quick fix: ‘These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch’

The First Descendant’s launch hype went over like a bag of candy smuggled into a movie theater—exciting at first, but regrettably short-lived. While last July it was celebrating a screaming high of 10 million players in its first week alone, SteamDB shows the game has simmered to around 5,000 concurrent players as I write this….

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