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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord debuted in 1981 for the Apple II and very quickly became a hit, launching an acclaimed and influential series of RPGs that would persist throughout the 1980s and ’90s. A remake of that game dropped in 2024, and to our great surprise it was nominated for a Grammy…
Spirit Swap‘s candy-colored blocks might call Tetris to mind. Like Tetris blocks, they remain behind my eyelids when I close my eyes, bouncing up and down to a lo-fi beat. More than once I wished I could step through the screen to be immersed in those beats, with no responsibilities other than clearing the board….
The current US administration has begun a purge of existing US government websites, with resources including USAID.gov, ForeignAssistance.gov, HealthData.gov, GoodJobs.gov, and ChildrenInAdversity.gov. Reuters reported that this follows various of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, and a memo circulated to government departments last Wednesday ordering federal agencies to “take…
Multiversus game director Tony Huynh says he knows the forthcoming end of development is “painful for everyone,” players and developers alike, but while it’s okay to express anger and frustration, “threats to harm” members of the development team are not. “Hey all, I wanted to say a few words as I reflect on the recently…
Game Pass means different things to different people: a rich repository of indie games, a place to play Microsoft’s AAA games on Day One, and a covert way to mainline Call of Duty into our bloodstreams. One moment you’re whip-cracking fascists in the new Indiana Jones, the next you’re rolling back the years with the…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a very good videogame about washing yourself in troughs over and over, and it’s almost ready to hit the big red ‘Release’ button on PC. On Tuesday, February 4, KCD2 will finally go live almost exactly seven years after its predecessor, giving lord and peasant alike the chance to romp…
CES 2025 saw the announcement of some exciting new Zen 5 CPUs from AMD, not least two X3D additions that we’ve been anticipating for some time. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D look like they might be some seriously powerful CPUs, and now the latest scuttlebutt suggests they might be coming at the end of…
The next Battlefield doesn’t have an official name, date, or even a proper trailer yet, but EA wants folks to play it and start giving feedback. The series’ new playtesting initiative is called Battlefield Labs, and its first participants will play a pre-alpha version of the next Battlefield in the coming weeks and months—signups are…
If you’re a fan of 4X strategy games, you’ll probably have already read through our review of Civilization 7 and perhaps my performance analysis of the game, too. As any strategy enthusiast will know, such games are almost never about the graphics and instead focus on complex AI algorithms, which test your abilities as a…
Skytech Chronos gaming PC | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 2 TB SSD | $2,949.99 $2,799.99 at Newegg (save $150)This gaming PC not only has the brand-new RTX 5080, which comes with Nvidia’s latest Multi Frame Generation magic, but it also packs a Ryzen 7 9800X3D inside. That’s the…