PC Gaming
As a survival game, Windrose is an extremely forgiving one. Your weapons and gear never degrade. If your pirate ship sinks you can rebuild it with a mere 20 pieces of wood. You can’t die of hunger or thirst, and your NPC pirate crew, well… they can’t die at all. It’s such a streamlined survival…
Ever play a game set in a world so intriguing and enjoyable you wish there were other games, even of a different genre, that took place in the same setting? Eremite Games, the studio that created roguelike city builder Against the Storm, has announced just that. “There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you,” the…
Culminating a messy, year-long legal spat, Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the studio staff of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment, having reached a settlement with the studio’s leadership—including ousted-and-subsequently reinstated-by-court-order CEO, Ted Gill. In an interview with Bloomberg, Gill said he has voluntarily resigned as studio executive, having “mutually agreed to part…
Former Unreal Engine director and longtime Epic engineer Nicholas Penwarden is stepping away from the company after 15 years. “I’m proud of the part I was able to play in Unreal Engine’s evolution from UE3 to where it stands today,” the Epic veteran wrote in a post yesterday on LinkedIn “It’s remarkable to see how…
Point and click horror can be really tricky to pull off, it can lack a sense of agency over your own actions as characters are funneled into certain choices. But it’s even harder to do well when the thing you’re using to point and click with is your own temperamental phone. Instead of using a…
With the confidence of a man whose name is on some of the best videogame stories out there, BioWare veteran and Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider recently told GamesRadar that generative AI is a “virulent plague” on the games industry. Gaider, who most recently worked on “unholy roguelite deckbuilder” Malys, said that the way…
Categorically, I cannot afford to buy my own Steam Machine. Much to my chagrin, the most basic 512 GB model still costs $1,049. Even Valve’s own engineers wish their game box was cheaper. Thankfully, a French retailer is stepping in to try and do what even Valve could not: offer a compact PC for very…
Endgame events are a big deal for Total War players. Most of us remember the Mongols and Timurids invading in Medieval 2—both the sense of anticipation as we prepared for their arrival, and the monumental battles that took place as we tried to survive their onslaught. They’re just one of the many features that make…
Microsoft has been extremely busy lately, taking a well-earned break from polluting the world with AI to eviscerate the videogame industry. The reports of potential layoffs and closures—coupled with the short-sighted strategies of other publishers, including main rival Sony—are devastating. And the bad news just keeps coming. According to The Verge, Arkane’s Blade is now…
We’ve survived the June deluge and… Wait, somehow there are even more cozy games launching in July? I’ve counted up 30 new cozy games worth taking a peek at this month. That’s way too many for me or anyone else though, so as usual I’ve called up my cozy comrades to pick the ones they’re…