PC Gaming
Turn-based games are not my forte—I’m far too impatient to plot out my next three moves ahead of time—but I’m always tempted to try them out, especially when there’s the promise of a retro 32-bit horror game. House of Necrosis is just that, a turn-based horror game reminiscent of the old-school ones I grew up…
Try to contain your amazement: Elon Musk has had a terrible idea. The half-trillionaire has taken a break from getting his pet AI—the one that went on a tear and declared itself “MechaHitler” in July—to generate scantily clad anime women to instead muse on its ability to generate a videogame. Musk declared on Monday that…
My second-favorite character in Absolum is Cider, or as I like to call them: Kung-Fu Pinocchio. Beat ’em ups are built on the strength of their character designs. The repetition inherent to the genre means that each uppercut and dive kick animation had better be satisfying. Absolum seems to be delivering that—earlier this year I…
Obsidian’s Pentiment is one of the most interesting games of the last several years. Set in 16th-century Bavaria, the game tasks you—journeyman artist Andreas Maler—with figuring out who keeps doin’ murders in the town of Tassing. There are plenty of potential suspects you can point the finger at, and you have to choose one whether…
It’s T-minus three days until Battlefield 6’s launch, and with every hour that passes, I get even more excited. But my sheer joy at the prospect of jumping into blissful chaos is also somewhat overshadowed by the rising dread that the servers simply won’t be able to cope. Battlefield games have a rather unfavourable track…
When there’s simply not enough time, coffee, or brainpower to make a Wordle make sense, we can help. Our hints and clues for the October 8 (1572) puzzle can steer you away from a sticky situation at any time, or even make sure you never get in one in the first place. And if they…
I never overcame my fear of sandworms in Dune: Awakening, no matter how many times I crossed the desert. Getting swallowed by a sandworm once and losing everything permanently—my armor, my weapons, my loot, and my vehicle—was enough to make me tread the dunes of Dune as carefully as possible from then on. But that…
Kitfox Games was founded in 2013 by a group of four acquaintances. They had almost no shared history, varying levels of experience, different tastes in games, and—despite their hopes of being a PC-first studio—an obligation to their incubator investor to release a mobile game. 12 years later, Kitfox has released four of its own games,…
I can’t say I’m entirely surprised, but it’s still a little disappointing: The original 1999 edition of System Shock 2 will be removed from Steam on October 10. “System Shock 2 (1999) will be delisted from PC platforms on October 10, 2025,” Nightdive parent Atari says in the delisting announcement. “Existing owners of System Shock…
Steam went offline earlier today in an odd but thankfully brief hitch that may have been a small part of a much bigger thing: Xbox, PlayStation, Riot Games, and Epic all suffered a very sudden spike in outage reports at around the same time last night, and that’s led to speculation that it might be…