The genre that has spiraled out from the surprise success of Vampire Survivors is one of my favourites to cover—whether I’m mining for gold, hitting people with swordfish, or building weapons out of brains and chimpanzee spines. The genre keeps growing and mutating, becoming ever more diverse and bursting with creative new ideas. It’s been…
I’m finally all caught up on Critical Role’s fourth campaign after an extended break—and I’ve been very much enjoying the “Schemer’s Table”, one of three central groups (the others being Soldiers and Seekers) that comprise the actual play show’s ambitious group of 13 players. As opposed to the Soldiers, who’ve been hunting down the bugger…
PC gamers love tweaking our field of view sliders, the extent of your in-game peripheral vision that gets rendered. Real heads tend to adopt a “the higher, the better,” mentality, with 90 degrees being a commonly-accepted sweet spot. So why did PC gaming grande damme Valve saddle us with a miserly, dare I say console-like…
Completing Prescriptions of the Past in Arc Raiders is one of the simplest quests you’ll get given by Lance, Speranza’s resident robo-medic. This mission sees you heading to the Departure Building in the Spaceport and scrounging up some old medical records still stored there. The main challenge, honestly, is just finding the Medical Exam Room…
Top Deal: Uh oh, do you see what’s happening? That’s right, summer is coming to an end and pretty soon we’ll be in the middle of the back-to-school season. Goodbye nice weather, pools, and vacations. But rather than pout and pound sand over the situation, you can turn it into a positive by building a…
Eight years ago, Razer announced a version of its laptop with three screens built in. With attention to detail and proper ergonomics, that many screens could potentially work in a laptop form factor, but we haven’t heard from it since. Well, Razer has been beaten to the market by Byone over at AliExpress, and it…
I can’t knock Epic’s annual tradition of giving away a ton of games every holiday season. The Epic Games Store free games list always contains a few big name surprises like Death Stranding or Vampire Survivors that I expect a lot of PC gamers already own, and for those who don’t it’s mighty nice to…
Handheld gaming hardware head Ayaneo has just unveiled its first phone. The Ayaneo Pocket Play is a smartphone with a sliding display that can be pushed up to reveal a d-pad, AXBY face buttons, and two virtual joystick touchpads. Ayaneo had previously teased this gaming-geared phone early last month. Now, there’s a fresh blog post…
We are tantalisingly close, at time of writing, to the release of Nightdive’s long-awaited remaster of System Shock 2. When it happens, I think we can put the BioShock era behind us. We all had a whirlwind time in Rapture and also that one in the racist sky hamlet, but between the System Shock 1…
Brick breaking and side-scrolling martial arts action are on the cards for retro game fans this week. This week, Antstream players can enjoy Breakout (Atari 2600), the game that launched a million bricks at walls, and fight for love in the side-scrolling beat ‘em up Kung-Fu Master (Arcade). Also, players can give the “Life, Duty…