PC Gaming
At the start of January we predicted 2024 would be a strong year for Japanese games, but we weren’t quite ready for the very first month of the year to knock our socks off. There’s never been a Japanese indie game like Palworld—in just two weeks in January the early access survival game sold 12…
Get the popcorn in, because I swear it’s true. A cross-chain lending platform called Abracadabra Money has confirmed that an exploit allowed one user to drain at least $6.49 million in Ethereum-based stablecoins from its protocol (first spotted by Web3isgoinggreat). Fair warning that this story involves a bunch of crypto jargon which I’ll try to…
In what I think qualifies as an unexpected bit of casting, HBO has announced that Catherine O’Hara, known for her work in television and movies including Schitt’s Creek, Beetlejuice, and Home Alone, is joining the cast of HBO’s The Last of Us in an undisclosed role. HBO has already made a number of new casting…
We’ve known since mid-2021 that Skate, the free-to-play reboot of the long-running skateboard sim that was first announced back in 2020, will be coming to PC. And now we know where: In a brief video clip shared on Twitter, EA finally confirmed that Skate will land on Steam. The announcement was about as brief as…
“I’ve been working on survival games for quite a while,” says Seth Rosen as we chat over Zoom. “Funnily enough, I don’t like them.” That is pretty funny, because Rosen was technical designer for Klei Entertainment’s Don’t Starve: Reign of Giants and project lead for Don’t Starve Together, eternally one of the most popular games…
Palworld is an undeniably huge hit, despite debate still raging as to whether its Pokémon-like creature designs are overly similar, plagiarized or even stolen. Beyond those creatures, Palworld isn’t very Pokémon-like at all—but it is quite a bit like another survival crafting sandbox: Ark: Survival Evolved. You know, the one with the dinosaurs. Why have…
The life simulation game in development by Rod Humble and team at Paradox Tectonic, Life By You, is sliding back a few months in the release calendar of new 2024 games. Previously planned for early access in March, it will now launch on June 4. In a video message to fans alongside the announcement, Humble…
When Bethesda added Nvidia’s DLSS tech to Starfield back in November 2023, it promised that support for AMD’s FSR 3 would be added “in a future update.” Today it announced that update will arrive, in beta form, on Steam next week. “We’re excited to share that AMD FSR 3 is coming to StarfieldGame’s Steam Beta…
Supermassive co-founders and brothers Pete and Joe Samuels have announced their departure from the developer best-known for the brilliant Until Dawn (which coincidentally has just been announced for PC). Pete Samuels has been the Guildford-based studio’s CEO since its founding in 2008, which came after a career including stints at the late great Psygnosis and…
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man with a long and varied career, from his entrance onto the world stage as a bodybuilder nicknamed “The Austrian Oak”, to multiple Mr Olympia title wins, a massive Hollywood career, and eventually, his rise to the status of Governor of California. However, he may have just added another title to…