PC Gaming
I have to admit I played Saints Row 2 on Steam unmodded, all the way through, twice. So if you tell me it’s “unplayable” without a fan patch I’m going to do that thing where I raise one eyebrow at you. Did the PC port have problems, though? Oh, hell yes. Cutscenes were wonky as…
Last night, I was annoying my fiancee by swearing every time I died to the early Silksong boss, Splinter Sister—the boss herself isn’t the problem, it’s the stupid little mooks she summons. Meanwhile, there are people not only no-hitting the game’s hardest bosses, one true student of the needle has no-hit every boss in the…
Netflix has released a “first clip” of Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher Season Four, as distinct from the “first look” we got back in May. This is our first actual scene from the season and not a little teaser, though, with Hemsworth sporting the white locks and leather armor of everyone’s…
Indie roguelike Shape of Dreams sold over 100,000 copies within its first 24 hours on sale on Steam this weekend, marking an exciting start for the new co-op roguelike, despite having its release squeezed between heavy hitters Hollow Knight: Silksong and Borderlands 4. It peaked at over 30,000 concurrent players on Steam and even popped…
I would lay my life on the line for Sherma, Hollow Knight: Silksong’s recurring bug pilgrim with indefatigable hope and a song in his heart, and that seems to be the general consensus on the matter. In perhaps the most beautifully deranged expression of Shermania I’ve seen yet, Video Game News on YouTube has uploaded…
Ahead of the release of Borderlands 4 last week, Conan O’Brien returned for a new episode of Clueless Gamer to try out the game in support of the non-profit Next for Autism. Right out of the gate, O’Brien’s eyes seemed to glaze over while listening to the lore behind the game, joking, “Can you just…
Before billionaires decided they’d quite like to transform Mars into a tax haven, the red planet was pretty cool. The disgustingly youthful among you might not even remember its heyday. It really peaked in 1996, when Tim Burton and Jonathan Gems created Mars Attacks!, a B-movie pastiche based on the ancient TCG. OK, maybe I’m…
Quake and Quake 2 are, famously, very different shooters. The original is a dark gothic fantasy with a side of HP Lovecraft, while the latter leans hard into industrial sci-fi. I’ve always thought of them as entirely separate stories, but Quake 2’s latest official episodes—the Machine Games-developed Call of The Machine—explicitly connects the two, with…
As someone who grew up when true cooperative games were vanishingly rare, the sheer number of games that allow you to play with pals at your side these days is astonishing. Every other game seems to support larking around for up to four people. And in the increasingly unlikely event that a game doesn’t have…
Listening to the soundtrack of atmospheric soulslike Lies of P when it was released, I realised something—wait a second, I know a lot of these songs. Why do I know a lot of these songs? The game just came out! It’s not like developer Neowiz was licensing chart-topping pop tunes to include in its soundtrack….