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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…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Tarn Adams cannot recall exactly when he first got into…
Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I have been: mostly testing Intel’s new Arrow Lake Refresh chips, but I’ve also been checking out Nvidia’s new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation. I’ve been despondently staring at DRAM prices in the vain hope that I’ll stumble across an affordable 64 GB kit to update my…
Five years ago, Strixhaven: School of Mages showed us Magic: The Gathering’s original take on the wizard school genre, which covers everything from Discworld’s Unseen University to A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin—though obviously Harry Potter is the elephant in the room. Back then, Wizards of the Coast hadn’t gone all-in on the…
Crimson Desert has gotten frequent and hefty updates since its blockbuster release, and today has brought yet another payload of changes. You can read all about it on developer Pearl Abyss’s website, but let me skip to the good stuff: you can hide your helmet now. The highly requested feature is delightfully granular, too. In…
Our first glimpse of Alex Garland’s upcoming Elden Ring movie might be in a TikTok video shot by a lucky fan in the UK. Not only is it unmistakably a near-exact recreation of the ruined churches from the game, there’s evidence that it’s being built in a popular filming location. Throxtv, an Elden Ring fan…
Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Lance McDonald has unveiled his latest discovery from deep in the bowels of Elden Ring, a WIP base game cutscene featuring DLC antagonist Miquella the Kind, who remains one of the most enigmatic characters in any FromSoft game. The cut scene (cut cutscene?) shows Miquella planting a sapling Haligtree—the endgame dungeon where…