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This week, Blizzard threw a curveball at Overwatch 2 fans just a few months shy of its ninth anniversary. As of next week, Overwatch 2’s static heroes will level up throughout a match with mini-skill trees. Blizzard calls them perks, and based on my playtime with them, they’re the single largest shakeup of Overwatch’s format…
Just two weeks after launching on Steam, “multiplayer extraction survival horror” shooter Level Zero: Extraction has reached the end of the road. In a message posted to Steam, community manager Antishyr said the game has “underperformed compared to our expectations,” and thus “it’s no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game…
With 2024 now well behind us, the Epic Games Store has shared its annual look back at the year that was. On the whole, it sounds like a pretty good year for Epic, which saw the number of games on its store, and the number of people using it, both take big jumps. The Epic…
I am one of Pillars of Eternity’s strongest soldiers here at PC Gamer, a Sardaukar of Cipher builds, a praetorian for Obsidian’s deceptively philosophical fantasy universe. One of the most exciting things about Avowed since its first proper reveal has been how much it nailed the aesthetic and feel of Pillars from an entirely new…
Workers in France’s videogame industry took part in a nationwide one-day strike yesterday, and to help cover their lost wages the Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV) union has put together a Grève {“Strike”) Bundle on Itch.io, offering a mix of more than 50 games, digital books, and other material for $10….
When the Modern Age ends in Civilization 7, the game’s over, but it hasn’t always been that way. In previous games, you could keep playing long after a winner had been declared, a feature which led to the most famous game of Civilization ever played: Civilization 2’s “Eternal War.” James “Lycerius” Moore spent nearly a…
Music publication Mojo has a new retrospective on Omikron: The Nomad Soul, the 1999 game that marked Davd Cage’s directorial debut but is most notable for the involvement of David Bowie. The legendary musician was initially approached in a bid to license some of his older songs but Bowie, ever-keen on where technology was going…
Finishing minigames are the worst minigames and I’ve waited too long to say it. Maybe I’ve regressed into an iPad child in my middle age but I can’t stomach a day wasted fishing even in Stardew Valley without looking at my phone. It’s a boring waste of time always pulling me away from more interesting…
A South Korean court has ruled that Dark and Darker developer Ironmace did not commit copyright infringement against Nexon, according to a Korea Times report. But Ironmace is going to have to fork over some bucks anyway, because the court also ruled that it did infringe on Nexon’s trade secrets. Dark and Darker, a fantasy…
I was a videogame-obsessed teenager in the 1990s and it seemed like every single gaming magazine (and several of my friends) had one holy grail: The Tomb Raider nude code. The small detail of Core Design’s blockbuster adventure game not actually having one was irrelevant: Thanks to a few doctored screenshots and irrepressible playground murmurings,…