PC Gaming
The Forge—a Roblox RPG meets mining sim—throws a ton at you just within those first few minutes of questing, cave exploration, and crafting. It’s a little more serious about the RPG part of the formula than I anticipated, so when the tutorials turned me loose, I’ll admit it, I floundered. Fortunately, after countless trial-and-error crafts…
Just a hair over two years ago, I wrote about a fan translation of a landmark Japanese PS2 game, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, making a landmark “cozy” game playable in English for the very first time. We didn’t call games cozy back in the early 2000s, but were it released today, the slice-of-life adventure game…
A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…
A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…
We’ve known for some time that Arc Raiders’ “Cold Snap” winter event was on the horizon, but now exactly when it’s happening. According to an Embark X post, the Cold Snap update arrives Tuesday, December 16. According to Embark’s official Arc Raiders roadmap, the Cold Snap update brings a new map condition called snowfall, the…
Netflix recently won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, making a deal to acquire the company for nearly $83 billion. That includes its film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max and all their properties, the whole of the DC Universe, and of course its remaining game studios. Those game studios are obviously of…
The soft response to Call of Duty’s latest release, Black Ops 7, continues to affect change in the long-running series. As announced on the official CoD blog today, Activision will no longer make back-to-back Call of Duty games in the same series. The news comes off the back of a weaker than usual year for…
Chalk this up as something I didn’t expect to see today: a gun in a Wholesome Snack showcase. A proper rifle, even! And there was even a gunshot—though it was offscreen. This little surprise in the notoriously cozy game showcase arrived in the trailer for Verdant, a post-apocalyptic adventure with some heavy The Last of…
As we all should, I salute the modders who devote their time, effort, and attention to bug fixes, quality of life, and general playability. But as pure as those souls are, my favorite kind of modder is less good samaritan and more mad wizard: those who mold a game’s clay into new, terrifying shapes simply…
If you’ve been waiting for a good opportunity to pick up the prehistoric survival game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, here it is: You can get it on GOG right now for 80% off, cutting it to just $8. That’s the good news—the bad news is that it, along with Obsidian’s popular sci-fi RPG The Outer…