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The Bees quest in Arc Raiders is as simple as tracking down the bee hive location in the Olive Grove. If The Root of the Matter and her letting you buy scrap for actual seeds wasn’t enough of a clue, Celeste is very interested in the environment of the topside and restoring things to how…
XDefiant may not have been as spectacular a flop as Concord, but it was another stark example of how ephemeral online gaming can be in today’s industry. Ubisoft’s multiplayer shooter released in 2024 to not-insignificant critical acclaim, with PC Gamer’s Jake Tucker calling it “a breath of fresh air” in a sphere dominated by Call…
Finishing the Espresso quest in Arc Raiders is extremely simple once you know where to find an espresso machine to salvage for parts. Apollo, Speranza’s resident grenade and gadget vendor, sends you to the Buried City following a tip he got from a Raider about a magical old-world machine that can produce coffee. Imagine that……
I’ve not gotten around to it yet, but it’s my understanding that Telltale-style superhero sim Dispatch is really rather good. So good that it won the heart of our Fraser Brown, who scored it 89% in his Dispatch review and called it “one of the best superhero TV shows around.” And that’s without all the…
Arc Raiders has been on an upward trend over the last few weeks since its launch. Reaching an impressive 100,000 concurrent players in just the first half an hour and then doubling that within a day, it seems like everyone’s hooked on raiding. Three weeks after its launch, Arc Raiders is still not letting up,…
The idea of “canonicity” in RPGs is an odd one, given the whole point of both videogame and tabletop RPGs is that the players decide what the main characters do. But sequels, spin-offs, and sourcebooks have a habit of choosing particular outcomes as the “real” ones—unless it’s the Elder Scrolls, where every ending of Morrowind…
The Blood of Dawnwalker—a new vampire RPG from former CD Projekt devs—has been half on my radar, but its latest gameplay trailer (following a first one in June) really has the sauce: There’s a lot of very apparent Witcher 3 DNA on display, but that just seems to be a comfortable starting point for a…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
American McGee’s Alice is simply sensational, what with its weird, janky hybrid of shooter-inspired action and surreal 3D platforming, and though the sequel Madness Returns didn’t hit me quite as hard, it’s still well worth your time. The problem, for PC gamers at least, is that Madness Returns has a pretty rough port that’s only…
Official remakes can be hit or miss for me, but one thing I always love to see is a fan reimagining: It can be lower stakes and unbound from questions of approachability or profitability. Enter Mitchell Hammond, who’s been reinterpreting the primeval, 1987, MSX2 original Metal Gear game as an anime informed by later entries…