PC Gaming
Deep Field Games just can’t stop adding to Abiotic Factor. Consistently impressive through its early access development, the enormous 1.0 version was crowned “one of the greatest survival crafting games ever made” by Morgan Park in his Abiotic Factor Review. While I haven’t delved as deeply as Morgan, I’ve likewise been bedazzled by its sumptuous…
Whenever I get the itch to play Minecraft again, I always browse the Marketplace first to see if there are any packs I can add to make the game that little bit more exciting. There’s an overwhelming amount of content you can spend your coins on, like adding a larger variety of animals and fish…
Working for the Devil isn’t as bad as it may sound. You’ve got your own workspace, a helpful yet somewhat terrifying assistant, and as much toilet paper as you could ever want. All you have to do is sort through the mail, sending letters to the right floor and burning all the junk. This is…
Can you believe videogames have been around for, at minimum, 43 years? That’s probably longer than any human has ever lived, and they show no sign of letting up, despite the many letters I’ve written to the government. And wouldn’t you know it—the Golden Joystick Awards return for their 43rd annual show this November 20,…
There have been some incredible weapons in the history of PC gaming, and while not exclusive to the genre, there’s no doubting that most of them have come out of FPS games. From Painkiller’s Stake Gun, through to Quake’s Railgun, and onto Unreal Tournament’s Flak Cannon, among many others, there are many iconic weapons in…
We’ve known since the earliest days of MMO PvP servers and tense DayZ standoffs that, given the opportunity, players love to kill each other after promising they wouldn’t. So too is the case in extraction shooters, where truces tend to have a shorter expiration date than fast food lettuce, and your fellow man is hauling…
Yoshiro Kimura seems to only be half kidding when he tells me that he “escaped” from Squaresoft in the mid 1990s, where he’d started his career as a game designer on Romancing SaGa 2 for the Super Nintendo. Even back then, when game studios were a fraction of the size of today’s behemoths making Call…
Cheaters are the bane of pretty much every competitive multiplayer videogame in existence. It never really made much sense to me because it doesn’t seem like much fun—it’s a lot of work just to grief some random guy, which when you get right down to it is really all that’s happening—but some people just can’t…
The air of criminal mystique has been dispelled somewhat in the weeks following the October 18 heist that saw $102 million of crown jewels stolen from the Louvre in broad daylight. The suspects fumbled an entire crown during their escape, before trying and failing to light their mechanical lift on fire as a diversionary tactic….
Need to remember the release date for Europa Universalis 5? Just recall this handy rhyme: In two-thousand twenty five, Europa Universalis sailed the ocean… five. Or you could just look below, I guess, because EU5 finally hits on November 4, 2025, 12 years on from the original release of Europa Universalis 4. In other words,…