If there’s one thing I know about human nature, it’s that we have a universal affection for a giant, derelict megastructure. Who among us, when presented a hauntingly massive brutalist shape, isn’t possessed by a profound, inchoate yearning to clamber all over it like a sort of reverent bug? Fulfilling that fundamental drive is the…
(Image credit: Firaxis Games) Reinstall: Tim Edwards plays Sid Meier’s Railroads! and tracks his progress – PC Gamer #201 (UK, July 2009) I didn’t realise I enjoyed business. But business is competition. Competition is a game. And games, I think we can all agree, are awesome. That’s why I’ve fallen in love with the railroads….
As Steam has grown over the years, so has the Steam Community Market, the online marketplace where Steam users buy and sell in-game items and other digital stuff to one another. To accommodate that growth, Valve has kicked off a beta test for a major update to the market, designed to make it easier to…
A small group of protesters opposed to the Saudi Arabia-led takeover of Electronic Arts staged a “raid”—in the metaphorical MMO sense of players teaming up to confront a powerful boss—at EA headquarters yesterday, demonstrating in front of the Madden field at the center of the company’s campus before attempting to present a petition signed by…
“Press F to pay respects” is out and now it’s “Press A to run away,” which is the very first thing I do in vampire-themed farm sim Moonlight Peaks. Dracula is my not-so-dear dad and I’m ditching his castle and his dracul-onian rules to find space for myself at the family cottage in the countryside….
Become a book-Wormadam. Looking for another gorgeous tome to stick on your shelf or coffee table, and happen to be a big Pokémon fan? Then the Pokémon Deluxe Character Guide should be on your radar. Announced by The Pokémon Company today, this beautiful-looking 336-page book releases on 25th August 2026 and is stuffed full of…
One of the bigger showings at The Game Awards 2025 was the surprise reveal of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a successor to the beloved Knights of the Old Republic series being developed under the leadership of original KotOR director Casey Hudson at a new studio staffed with other BioWare veterans. A year…
Last year, solo developer Brian—operating as developer Burgee Media—released Erenshor in early access on Steam to offer the MMO experience he was denied in his EverQuest years by a shoddy internet connection that made group play impossible. It’s a fully simulated, singleplayer MMORPG, with dozens of quests, zones, and computer-controlled “simplayers” who’ll group up, join…
Category: Games May 12, 2026 Little Kitty, Big City Celebrates Two Years of Feline Mischief with a Delightful Birthday Update Arsenio Navarro, Business Operations at Double Dagger Studio It has been two a-meow-zing years since our favorite tiny black cat first tumbled from a high-rise windowsill into the bustling streets of the Big City. Since then,…
“There is no easy way to share this kind of news”. Spanish video game developer MercurySteam, best known for developing Metroid: Samus Returns on the 3DS and the critically-acclaimed Metroid Dread on Switch, is the latest studio to be hit with layoffs. “There is no easy way to share this kind of news”, the independent…