PC Gaming
It’s a story we’ve seen a lot this decade: An experienced videogame developer becomes fatigued by ballooning team sizes and meetings about monetization strategy, and then strikes out on their own to start a smaller studio with funding from private investors and companies like NetEase. In this case, it’s Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Just Cause…
Marathon looks pretty groovy, but it’s got one big problem and it goes by the name of Arc Raiders. Embark’s narrative-driven sci-fi extraction shooter is really good, and really popular, and it stole Marathon’s thunder in a big way—to the point that it influenced some of the design changes Bungie made to the game in…
I’ll lay out my tastes straight away. I’m a little more… Garden Warfare than Modern Warfare. A little more Team Fortress than Quake. A little more silly string than regular string. What I love more than any individual, artfully designed videogame is the slapstick party version that inevitably rises in the wake of its success….
Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corporation has filed a fictional copyright infringement lawsuit against Nissin Foods, the Japanese giant best-known for its ramen noodles and the Cup Noodles brand (thanks, Automaton). As per the Japanese Resident Evil social media accounts, the Umbrella Corporation claims that Cup Noodles bear striking similarities to Umbrella Noodles, an in-game Easter egg…
Whether you want them for the unlimited ammo, or to turn Leon into your dress-up doll, getting the cat ears in Resident Evil 4 Remake is a pretty difficult task. You might nope out of the challenge when you hear it involves playing on the Professional difficulty, but it’s not as hard as it initially…
While I’m sure acknowledging this will inflict some amount of psychic pain, today is the 10th anniversary of the launch of Stardew Valley. To commemorate the occasion and the steady degradation of our joints and bones, Stardew creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone aired a celebratory 10-year anniversary stream, covering his gigahit life sim’s history—some of which…
Congratulations, Wakeheads: you can now witness Alan at such a brilliantly vivid colour intensity that it becomes, frankly, disturbing. Alan Wake Remastered has HDR now, is what I’m saying, as of its recent 1.33 patch that dropped, rather out of the blue, earlier today. It does a fair bit, which I’ll get into, but I…
As the free-to-play multiplayer shooter Highguard continues to sink, a new Bloomberg report based on interviews with 10 former employees of developer Wildlight Entertainment provides a closer look at where it all went so badly wrong. The skeleton of the story is well known: A surprise reveal at the 2025 Game Awards that didn’t make…
Happy birthday, Stardew Valley. Today Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone’s beloved farming sim celebrated its 10th anniversary with a short half-hour retrospective and the long-awaited reveal of its upcoming marriage candidates. That’s right, you’re getting two new singles to woo when Stardew Valley 1.7 adds romances for Clint and Sandy. Stardew Valley Guides (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Stardew…
I haven’t touched Grim Dawn in ages, but it will always have a special place in my heart. I first wrote about it 16 years ago (for a completely different site), when Crate Entertainment was fiddling around with something called “crowd contributed” game development: Give people an opportunity to pay now so they can play…