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As reported by Metro, the British public has voted to name the savior of their railways: Ctrl Alt Deleaf, the leaf cleaning train. After Boaty McBoatface was renamed the RSS Sir David Attenborough back in 2018 in a historic moment of “stop having fun, guys,” it’s nice to see this vote go with the people’s…
The Internet Archive has survived another legal battle in its seemingly endless war to defend digital preservation in the face of copyright law. A settlement was filed on Monday in a lawsuit between music record labels and the Internet Archive, which the labels alleged committed copyright infringement with its “Great 78 Project” music preservation program….
God help us, it has been 25 years since Baldur’s Gate 2 released, and even though a third game under the same name has since come out and got everyone very excited with its sexy-haughty vampire boys and whatnot, we’re still talking about it. Why? Well, that’s easy. Baldur’s Gate 2 is a good game….
I first encountered Wobbly Life a few months ago when searching for new games to play with my kid. It’s a physics-powered open-world sim that roughly resembles a child-friendly Grand Theft Auto, a big colourful playground with activities that include races, delivering pizzas, and taking on taxi fares. My quickfire take is that it isn’t…
Read the full, unabridged, and beautifully laid out version of this behind-the-scenes feature in PC Gamer magazine issue 415, out October 9th! In 1998, Baldur’s Gate redefined what a computer RPG – and videogame interpretation of the D&D ruleset – could be. Just two years later, Baldur’s Gate 2 expanded on it so much that…
The Sims 4 has been going through a bit of a mid-life crisis lately. A wayward patch issued in July triggered a rampant pregnancy epidemic, while the most recent Enchanted by Nature DLC received a less-than enthusiastic response from players. Now, it seems the community is generally fed up with the increasingly buggy state of…
On balance, it’s probably a good thing we have little cause to use the word ‘fief’ anymore. But I do wish I had a few more excuses to deploy it, if only because it’s such an enjoyable word to say. Luckily, I’m able to postpone starting a degree in medieval history just so I can…
I didn’t think there were many ways to make Shadows of Doubt a better detective game—aside from giving the whole thing a vigorous polish. ColePowered Games’ sleuthing simulator procedurally generates an entire city’s worth of crimes to solve, somehow creating genuine deduction puzzles out of a bucketful of random numbers. Granted, it also tends to…
FEAR is one of those games we lament because the things that were great about it feel like they’ve been lost, for few now live who remember it. Sure, there’s Trepang2. But FEAR was so good there should be an entire subgenre based on it. There should be an entire cottage industry of indie studios…
Since the anti-porn crusaders Collective Shout pressured payment processors to get adult games removed from storefronts, things have been rough in the world of eroge development. (Eroge being short for “erotic game”, he wrote, feeling like your dad explaining how babies are made.) Now, a developer at Crimson Delight has claimed they can’t add new…