PC Gaming
When The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released in 2015, its success was so overwhelming that it’s hard to imagine it would have gone any other way. But from CD Projekt’s perspective, success seemed far from certain in the runup to launch. In particular, the Polish studio was deeply concerned about competition from another game…
Released just as the survival craze was really kicking into high gear, Salt was a quietly enjoyable survival game about sailing through a virtual archipelago in your own personal pirate ship. It didn’t break through in the same way as Subnautica and Raft did, perhaps because it was a little rough around the edges—particularly visually….
One of the earliest and most ambitious mods for Elden Ring, which revised and remixed its core systems to facilitate more tailored runs through The Lands Between, has just got a huge overhaul. Elden Ring: Reforged adds a vast array of new features like difficulty modes, runeforging, new combat mechanics like deflection and ducking, new…
Part of me still believes Shadow Labyrinth is some sort of collective hallucination brought on by humanity’s overconsumption of digital cherries, as the idea of a grimdark Metroidvania starring Pac-Man is just too ludicrous to comprehend. Nonetheless, the trailer, the Steam page, and our own Shadow Labyrinth Review all point to this being a real…
From the moment I played a 20 minute demo of Blue Prince back in March of 2024 it’s been firmly lodged in my brain. It’s the best game of the year, as far as I’m concerned, and it’s one of my favorite puzzle games ever. So while chatting with Dogubomb developer Tonda Ros this week,…
When I logged into the World of Warcraft: Midnight beta earlier this week, I couldn’t play the game. Suddenly the MMO became turn-based as I clicked NPCs and waited a good 30 seconds for them to offer me a quest. The lag got even worse when I made it to the opening zone of the…
Wikipedia founder/co-founder Jimmy Wales brooks no shit, and if you have any doubt about that then I invite you to watch his recent interview on German political podcast Jung and Naiv, “the shortest interview” it’s ever done. Things are spicy from the start. After Wales introduces himself as “founder of Wikipedia,” host Tilo Jung asks…
Concord is one of the most famous flameouts in videogame history: Years of development, hundreds of millions spent, and about two weeks of uptime before Sony decided it’d seen enough and took it all out behind the wood shed—the game, the studio, the dream—and put it to rest. But somehow, Concord returned. Not official Concord,…
After a lengthy eight-year beta the Escape from Tarkov 1.0 release date is finally upon us, and after such a long wait, I’m here counting down the final hours with launch times carved up by region. The grandaddy of extraction shooters will make the leap tomorrow, November 15, through Battlestate Games’ usual client at the…
When puzzle strategy roguelite Blue Prince launched in April, the singleplayer game quickly became a collaborative effort. Players shared more than just puzzle solutions online, they began piecing together the sprawling story that takes place outside the mansion’s walls, which includes generations of history about the world of Blue Prince. The non-linear nature of the…