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While by no means the longest-running early access project on Steam (that honour belongs to the perennial alpha juggernaut that is Project Zomboid) top-down survival RPG Necesse has been in development for quite some time. Fair Games’ pixel-y fantasy romp first stepped onto the road back in 2019, and only revealed it was prepping for…
Techland has released its post-launch roadmap for its free-running, zombie-dropkicking spinoff Dying Light: The Beast. As gaming roadmaps go, it’s closer to what you’d scribble on the back of a packet of ciggies than the cartographical masterpieces produced by Ordnance Survey, with Techland’s plans stretching over just 11 weeks. But this pencil-scrawl to your local…
You’ve got a green letter just where you want it. A few yellows waiting to be shuffled into the right spots. And you’ve got some idea of what to do with them. Brilliant—if you had the rows spare to poke around the entirety of the English language. This is where we come in, our clues…
Final Fantasy 7 Remake took the first eight or so hours of Final Fantasy 7 and expanded them into a 30-hour prestige RPG that, while it contained some quite skippable sidequests, added to the story in ways that made it even more impactful. The additions deepened character relationships and made you feel more attached to…
Well-remembered GTA-like The Simpsons: Hit & Run may never get those four sequels the developers were hoping for, but it’s being kept alive by modders nonetheless. There’s a mod to stitch its three zones together into a seamless open world, for instance. And now there’s Futurama: Hit & Run. The delightfully named Slurm Team has…
It’s certainly not an absence of demand that keeps “dead” games like Black & White or the original Civilization off the market. It’s usually red tape and nebulous barriers involving copyright law and intellectual property ownership-flavored headaches that get in the way. And even though GOG has a team working on its preservation program full…
Streamer Emily-Beth “Emiru” Schunk has released a statement criticizing ubiquitous streaming platform Twitch after she was assaulted at a TwitchCon meet and greet on October 17. This incident comes as high profile streamers, mostly women, have dealt with increasingly common incidents of in-person stalking and harassment by viewers. Streamer shenAndygans shared a video of the…
Sci-fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders is doing one last public playtest this weekend before its launch at the end of October, but quite a few players felt it was already good to go after its successful April playtest—or just wanted it to release ASAP so they could keep playing, perhaps more accurately. That Arc playtest…
Arc Raiders looks great: My pals at PC Gamer think it’s the most exciting thing to happen to the extraction genre in a long time, and the huge numbers the server slam playtest is putting up at this very moment prove that they’re not alone in thinking so. For me, though, there’s just one problem:…
SimCity 4 is one of the most pleasant games I own—I can experience all the splendor of a modern metropolis with a fraction of the nuance, and for the first time in my life, feel what it’s like to drive on American roads that don’t piss me off. Up-and-coming “hyperrealistic” transit sim Subway Builder offers…