PC Gaming
If you just can’t get enough Stardew Valley in your life, here’s a different way to indulge in its unrelenting life sim coziness: The Stardew Valley “Festival of Seasons” concert series, an international musical tour featuring a selection of music from the game performed by a chamber orchestra. “Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons is an…
I’ve come to appreciate Call of Duty’s newfound love for unorthodox gadgets. Every CoD these days has at least one weird gear or throwable that replaces your grenade or takes up the “field equipment” slot that replenishes on cooldown. In last year’s Modern Warfare 2 reboot, the Drill Charge was a star. This year, Modern…
I have patience for most things to arrive on PC in due time, but Sky: Children of the Light, the online flying and platform puzzling game from Journey studio Thatgamecompany was not one of them. I’ve been playing the tiny MMO-alike game for two years on my Nintendo Switch because the online goblin in me…
When I heard about this year’s Minecraft mob vote, I thought to myself, “Gosh, that sounds like fun! Some discussion, some debate, a little bit of good-natured trash talk, and at the end of the day, a new creature for players to enjoy.” Dear readers, I was wrong. A big chunk of the Minecraft community…
It feels oddly fitting that a stealth game would sneak out almost completely unseen in the midst of this year’s deluge of big game releases. This one is especially unassuming at first glance, with cute but slightly stiff sprites and a functional but bland UI, but it would be a mistake to overlook Spirited Thief….
In August, Iron Gate unveiled the Trial of Tyr, a competition to see who could complete the fastest solo speedrun through Valheim’s punishing new hard mode. Two months later, the task is complete, with the winner, a Chinese player named Zhengyuan, blowing through the whole thing in under eight hours. Zhengyuan, known in the community…
Counter-Strike 2 seems to have got off to a solid start, but a few weeks after launch Valve has announced some big decisions. These will only affect a small number of players, but even so this is a real line in the sand that reflects the developer’s ambition to develop this game for a decade…
Valve has achieved something remarkable with Counter-Strike 2, and has done it almost under-the-radar. The developer has managed to transition one of the largest and most change-averse competitive playerbases around from CS:GO to CS2 without any significant pushback, large-scale complaining, or splitting that playerbase. OK sure, it did rather brutally disappear CS:GO when the time…
Unless the FTC’s Lina Khan runs in at the last minute to physically tackle Bobby Kotick before he can sign anything, it’s looking very likely that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard will close in the very near future. I mean very near, you understand, as in possibly this Friday, pending word from the UK market…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A grand historical strategy game in the classic Total War style, set in Ancient Egypt. Release date October 11, 2023 Expect to pay £50 / $60 Developer Creative Assembly Publisher SEGA Reviewed on AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck Unsupported Link Official site Total War: Pharaoh isn’t the best Total War…