PC Gaming
2022 wasn’t exactly a banner year for first-person shooters, but it did bring us Hyper Demon. Like its predecessor Devil Daggers, Hyper Demon boasted a trippy art-style and emphasised fast-paced, high-challenge shooting, but its emphasis was less about survival and more about being an aggressive killing machine a-la Doom Eternal. The result utterly entranced Sam…
Imagine how awkward it would be to end up trapped in a lift with Starship Troopers: Extermination and Helldivers 2, what with the latter taking the themes and ideas behind the former’s licence and implementing them in a way that massively stole Extermination’s thunder. Sure, Helldivers 2 deserves its success, but Extermination’s developer, Offworld, must…
Every game is a roguelike now. And if it isn’t a roguelike, then it’s a roguelite. The beat ’em up is a roguelike. The FPS is a roguelike. Poker is a roguelike. Breakout is a roguelike. Even the flippin’ city-builder is a roguelike. It’s overwhelming. They’re all around us, man. They’re coming out of the…
Originally released in 2020, The Falconeer is an aerial combat RPG about piloting enormous predatory birds through the skies of a crumbling oceanic empire. It was warmly received on release, nominated for a BAFTA and earning a respectable score of 78 in our The Falconeer Review. But developer Tomas Sala wasn’t satisfied with the end…
The “let’s sue Roblox” bandwagon has grown a little bit bigger as Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has announced that he’s filed suit against the company “for flagrantly ignoring state and federal online safety laws while deceiving parents about the dangers of its platform.” Roblox has denied the claim, saying the Texas lawsuit is “based…
As much as I’d like to keep up the charade that I’m not a very competitive player in most games, the degree to which I’ve been lying to myself has become painfully evident as I get back into Rust. It’s been a while, but now I remember why I quit—this game brings the devil out…
I really love The Outer Worlds 2—so much so that even after reviewing it, I’ve already started my second character. One thing that stood out to me, though, is that you can’t side with the Arcadia system’s resident collectivist surveillance state, the Protectorate—you can’t even earn or lose reputation points with them like the other…
There’s something I find deeply funny about the use of copyright and trademark symbols in games. I get why these symbols are important in legal contexts, but, like, was it actually vital to display ® or ™ next to every character’s name in the Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 fighting game on the PlayStation® 2?…
Steam has increased the width of its product pages from 940 pixels to 1,200 pixels. It’s a change that would go unremarked on for most other online stores, but this is Steam, the place we’ve been buying PC games since the 2000s, and Valve, a company from which we’ve come to expect things like 750-word…
Four years after its release, Halo Infinite is, well, not going to be so infinite after all. Developer Halo Studios (formerly 343 Studios) has announced that it’s done updating the game with new stuff as it focuses on other projects, like Halo: Campaign Evolved. The final update will arrive on November 18 and will leave…