At first I was afraid, I was petrified. A treasure map: a voyage. The ocean sploshing happily at your makeshift raft. Then a ferocious storm! Shipwrecked, alone, starving, surely doomed. Well, not exactly. The happy sploshing part, yes — and technically a shipwreck — but then you’re in for a calypso-tinged, cosy hangout with friends….
While Myst and its sequel Riven are omnipresent games thanks to developer Cyan Worlds constantly remaking them, games directly inspired by Myst are few and far between. The most notable example is Jonathan Blow’s maze-obsessed puzzler The Witness, which distressingly will be a decade old come January. Now though, veteran publisher MicroProse has just released…
The Wonderland Whimsy update has arrived in Disney Dreamlight Valley, bringing the Alice in Wonderland realm. But while we’re free to give Alice a new home in our valleys right away, the Cheshire Cat isn’t quite ready to make the move. Unfortunately, even with the new realm open, there’s still a bit of a wait…
AMD’s Fury X is now out the door, and the performance benchmarks show what they show. We have a card priced the same as NVIDIA’s GeForce 980 Ti. Performance is honestly good from both parties, but in the community, it all doesn’t matter. Somehow, all that matters is that one person is an “AMD fanboy”…
Just a few months after People Can Fly announced the suspension of work on Project Victoria, it’s sprung back to life as Lost Rift, a survival shooter that blends solo or co-op PvE gameplay and base-building with “intense PvPvE expeditions” across a mysterious archipelago of islands. Revealed during today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, Lost…
This article was published in the February 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Gaming laptops have come a long way, but can they really replace desktop rigs? For a long time, many PC gamers scoffed at the idea of gaming laptops. After all, how could you fit…
It’s no secret that major studios are struggling to put out successful games. Between increasing development turnarounds, ballooning budgets, cancellations and mass layoffs, the industry is finding it harder to reliably bring projects to conclusion, leading to fewer blockbusters coming out each year. Various reasons have been aired for these problems, ranging from overeager profit…
TA-TA for this TATE goodness. When Blaze updated its Evercade handheld back in 2022, one of the key features it added to the EXP version was a TATE button which allowed users to experience vertically-oriented arcade games the way they were supposed to be played. As we noted in our review, while this was a…
February is nearly over, which spells the beginning of another Players’ Choice vote! Players’ Choice is a way for PlayStation fans to recognize the very best games on PlayStation platforms. Last month, Monster Hunter World captivated PlayStation fans and managed 50% of the overall vote. Who will take the crown in February? That’s up to…
Happy New Year! In the final days of 2019, we asked you to take a look back at the year in gaming and share moments from your favorite games released that year using #PS4share and #PSBlog. Now we’re kicking off 2020 with these highlights: DotPone shared this quiet moment of rest in Death Stranding. Jesse…