We all have our vices, and mine is a loot pile. There are few sources of dopamine more potent than dealing a final blow to a fortuitous skeleton and being rewarded with a multi-colored geyser of greatswords, quivers, amulets, and greaves. But while Path of Exile 2 has been supplying me with a steady drip…
After a rough start that stuck it with a “mixed” user rating on Steam, Spider-Man 2 on PC finally has its first proper patch, with fixes for “several” crash issues and bugs, and a promise that “more bug fixes, improvements and performance optimizations” are on the way. Spider-Man 2 did not quite stick the landing…
Squeaker. A new patent filed by Nintendo seems to confirm that the Nintendo Switch 2’s Joy-Con will include mouse functionality. The patent was filed on 1st April 2023 and made public today, 6th February 2025 (thanks to reader Davis for sending this to us!). Sure, we’ve been pretty confident about mouse functionality given the number…
Civilization 7 doesn’t fully launch until next Tuesday, February 11, but it’s playable now for people who sprung for the Founders Edition, and so far the response isn’t what Firaxis or 2K Games had to be hoping for. There’s a range of complaints, as there always is, but most widespread is criticism of the UI,…
Review catch-up (Image credit: Coal Supper) There were a few games last year that we didn’t have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we’re playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions. So if you’re reading this and wondering if you’ve slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don’t worry, you’ve…
The Sims 4 is now well into its nostalgia-fueled “Motherlode season” celebrating the series’ 25th anniversary and also revealing the next Sims 4 expansion pack: Businesses & Hobbies. After the Life & Death pack at the end of last year we’re apparently in a double word plus ampersand expansion era—who do I have to pander…
Larian has published a blog post detailing an update to the Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8, which isn’t actually out yet and is still in stress testing. The update includes a few tweaks to the balance of new sub classes in addition to the expected bug fixes, but notably absent among them were any significant…
E3 died in 2023 but the Entertainment Software Association is still around, and it’s just unveiled its new idea: “a first-of-its-kind event designed to connect visionaries, thought leaders and innovators from across industries to harness the power of interactive entertainment” called iicon. Two things right off the start: No, this is not a reborn E3,…
Influence, which you may be familiar from past Civs’ expansions, has finally made the jump to being a base game currency out of the box in Civilization 7. Alongside Food, Gold, Culture, Science, and Production, it’s one of your main tools for achieving world domination. But unlike some of the others, it’s not tied to…
Haemimont Games has spent the last 25 years knocking out an impressive list of strategy and management romps, including corkers like Tropico 3-5, Surviving Mars and Jagged Alliance 3. It’s had a pretty great run, and now it’s the latest feather in publisher Paradox Interactive’s cap, which just snatched the studio up. Announced today, Paradox…