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Hazelight Studios is known for making one kind of game—co-op action adventures—and for doing them really well: 2021’s It Takes Two earned an 80% review score as “a brilliant co-op adventure with a wild amount of variety,” while the 2025 follow-up Split Fiction upped the ante to 87% with “an incredibly inventive, rapid-fire co-op adventure…
I love a new-old game as much as anyone, but it’s hard to pretend that today’s retro throwbacks aren’t drawing inspiration from a small, predictable selection of extremely popular games: Zelda. Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy. Castlevania. Metroid. Mega Man. These are perfectly understandable picks for a game of any size to be inspired by—there are…
Nestled away amongst a pile of recently updated pages on Microsoft’s Learn site, which contains product documentation and technical resources, was a curiously titled article: “Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year.” I thought that can’t be right, surely everything would have fallen over long ago, but it turns out that…
It’s safe to say that Grand Theft Auto 6 is the single most anticipated videogame in history. But while it’s hard to imagine GTA 6 achieving anything other than a monolithic sales success, HipHopGamer said in an interview with PC Gamer that he expects it’s going to be making people outside of Rockstar and Take-Two…
It sure feels like a girl can’t reach into her closet for the old wizard school robe and hat without finding several skeletons hiding in there too. I really thought I’d never find a fun wizarding school game to play that doesn’t come with a boot full of baggage. Silly of me to have not…
Fighting games are hard. And I don’t just mean they’re hard videogames to master, with complex input strings and character match-ups to memorize. They’re seemingly hard games to sell and convince new players to devote hours of their lives to—just look at recent League of Legends fighter 2XKO, which saw 80 developers laid off shortly…
About 30 seconds into the trailer for Overwatch’s new hero Sierra, she shoots a little pink dart into her target. It has no obvious effect on Emre, one of the recently introduced characters, as he slips behind cover to avoid her rifle shots. It almost looks like Sierra never learned how to aim until the…
Say what you will about Crimson Desert protagonist Kliff, he is—by all accounts—present. Unfortunately, he isn’t much else. Guy’s got less personality than a tax office cubicle. Our man Kliff’s so much of a blank slate that it’s hard not to wonder whether Pearl Abyss might have been better off giving players the ability to…
Extraction shooters seem to be all the rage right now, what with Arc Raiders still going strong almost five months after launch, and Marathon hot off the presses. Well, the genre’s a hit in theory anyway, as Arc Raiders is really the only extraction shooter to break into the mainstream—even Bungie’s stab at it, while…
A common lament among cozy game players is that some games commonly considered “cozy” are more stressful than they let on—lookin’ at you Stardew Valley optimizers. But managing your daily energy and getting to bed before 2am has nothing on the overwhelm of looking at a screen filled with thousands of almost identical clovers to…