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Should immersive sims rein in their budgets? Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen thinks so. We chatted to him last month, where he said a lot of immersive sims are in “an arms race to be bigger and better”, but that the size of the audience and the competition from other big-budget games makes that a…

Dungeons & Dragons has had a rough handful of years. A new version of the Open Game Licence (OGL) leaked in 2023, portending doom for independent creators and giving Wizards of the Coast a licence to rug-pull any third-party creator it didn’t like (among other such horrors). This began the long and arduous process of…

With the release of the new Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and now the Steam Frame VR headset, this year has been chock-full of Valve hardware releases. So, what could possibly be next—the Steam Deck 2? To some extent, sure; Valve has been “hard at work” on its next handheld gaming PC pretty much since…

The Aniimo release time is almost here, unveiling the world of Idyll and its many creatures for you to catch. This game certainly seems to be trying to tap into that Palworld vein of an open world filled with recruitable monsters, though admittedly with fewer guns and survival crafting elements. Aniimo is also free-to-play, though…

Embark Studios announced a “pause” on Expeditions in Arc Raiders until early 2027 so it can rework the system to address longstanding issues and complaints that can’t be handled with “incremental fixes.” In a recent interview with PCGamesN, though, Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said the studio might go even further by ditching Expeditions…

It’s been just about a year since Kingmakers, the game about bringing a gun to a knife fight, was delayed just ahead of its planned launch, and we’ve heard nothing about it since. Today developer Redemption Road finally broke that extended silence with a new “deep dive” trailer detailing everything players will be doing in…

Last night, a buddy and I were stuck on the team selection screen in Wardogs. Manticore (Green) and Valkyra (Red) were 100% full, but Lonestar (Blue) had plenty of vacancies. Yet, there we sat—locked in a stalemate with a dozen other players desperate to not join blue. “Anything but blue,” we chanted, spamming left-click over…

There was a time when VR was pretty much exclusive to the PC. I’m talking about when the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift were the pinnacle of technology, circa 2016. I have very fond memories of those two headsets, often borrowing them from friends and colleagues, then ferrying them around to various spots to evangelise…

Bungie is changing how it updates Marathon going forward, saying it is “moving away from a strict seasonal schedule to give the team more flexibility to build, test, and improve features before release.” As a result, the content planned to launch as part of this month’s seasonal refresh has been delayed into December, and will…

The Steam Frame is here and it’s one of the best VR headsets I’ve ever had attached to my face, just don’t ask me about the price. But when we spoke to two of the people at Valve who helped create the device—Joy Lyons and Jeremy Selan—they told me the company actually had its new…