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Despite the success of Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online hasn’t quite lived up to its potential since bolting from the bounds of beta in mid-2019. That’s not to say it isn’t a good game. With the right mix of players on any populated server, Rockstar’s multiplayer cowboy crime sim is still up there…
Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun: Words of Vengeance originally launched as a stopgap/marketing gimmick to coincide with the announcement of Boltgun 2. But it appears to have gone down swimmingly with the Boltgun playerbase in its own right, having accrued a ‘Very Positive’ Steam rating out of 1,700 reviews. The 2.5D blaster’s free-to-play spinoff swaps out clicking…
When I first saw that city-builder Surviving Mars is getting a remaster, my first thought was “Isn’t that a bit soon? It only launched recently.” It turns out ‘recently’ was seven flipping years ago. That’s a shorter period than between the original Resident Evil and its 2002 HD edition. Truly, my ability to measure the…
While by no means the longest-running early access project on Steam (that honour belongs to the perennial alpha juggernaut that is Project Zomboid) top-down survival RPG Necesse has been in development for quite some time. Fair Games’ pixel-y fantasy romp first stepped onto the road back in 2019, and only revealed it was prepping for…
Techland has released its post-launch roadmap for its free-running, zombie-dropkicking spinoff Dying Light: The Beast. As gaming roadmaps go, it’s closer to what you’d scribble on the back of a packet of ciggies than the cartographical masterpieces produced by Ordnance Survey, with Techland’s plans stretching over just 11 weeks. But this pencil-scrawl to your local…
You’ve got a green letter just where you want it. A few yellows waiting to be shuffled into the right spots. And you’ve got some idea of what to do with them. Brilliant—if you had the rows spare to poke around the entirety of the English language. This is where we come in, our clues…
Final Fantasy 7 Remake took the first eight or so hours of Final Fantasy 7 and expanded them into a 30-hour prestige RPG that, while it contained some quite skippable sidequests, added to the story in ways that made it even more impactful. The additions deepened character relationships and made you feel more attached to…
Well-remembered GTA-like The Simpsons: Hit & Run may never get those four sequels the developers were hoping for, but it’s being kept alive by modders nonetheless. There’s a mod to stitch its three zones together into a seamless open world, for instance. And now there’s Futurama: Hit & Run. The delightfully named Slurm Team has…
It’s certainly not an absence of demand that keeps “dead” games like Black & White or the original Civilization off the market. It’s usually red tape and nebulous barriers involving copyright law and intellectual property ownership-flavored headaches that get in the way. And even though GOG has a team working on its preservation program full…
Streamer Emily-Beth “Emiru” Schunk has released a statement criticizing ubiquitous streaming platform Twitch after she was assaulted at a TwitchCon meet and greet on October 17. This incident comes as high profile streamers, mostly women, have dealt with increasingly common incidents of in-person stalking and harassment by viewers. Streamer shenAndygans shared a video of the…