Done right, robots can make a super satisfying videogame enemy. The one thing Binary Domain got right was its robots, who dented and broke and dragged themselves toward you even after you shot their legs off. From the dinosaurs in Horizon Zero Dawn to the turrets in Portal, we love a metal jerk AI bad…
Ever wonder what the world of Zootopia would be like if it was a 1950s noir world? Me neither, but it turns out it looks awesome, folks. Wild Tactics is a story-driven strategy game about a team of anti-organized-crime animals fighting to return peace to their city’s utopian project: Let all animals live in peace….
Look, I’m no paragon of neatness. In fact, most would consider me a slob, but Judatone & Krumb Games’ upcoming retro FPS mech-shooter Mekkablood: Quarry Assault is a reminder that even I draw the line somewhere. With only a couple months until the game’s January release (exact date not yet dialed in), there’s still time…
It’s hard to imagine Vampire Survivors-esque combat combined with city building, but Super Fantasy Kingdom has saved my imagination some work by mashing these two very distinct genres together. If you haven’t seen it before, this top-down city survival game is a little like Kingdom: Two Crowns, The Bonfire 2, or more recently, Thronefall—your classic…
The 2024 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted has brought us a new trailer for Menace, the sci-fi turn-based tactics game from Battle Brothers developer Overhype Studios. In Menace you’ll control a sci-fi military strike force hopping between worlds to answer distress calls calling for protection from pirates, rebels, warlords, and worse—a mysterious alien threat that…
Perhaps I’d be more inclined to troubleshoot my PC’s woes if it signaled distress through adorable window-to-window platforming and chiptunes instead of blue screens and erroneous droning. That’s not the reality for my rig, fine, but thanks to MainFrames—a bright and charming platformer featured in today’s PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted—digital problem solving will get…
The fourth entry in the Orcs Must Die series just got a January 28 release date at today’s PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, with a suitably silly trailer that elaborates on some of the new features on offer. Since Orcs Must Die first lit up the Steam charts in 2011, the series has remained the…
If you’re looking for a new cooperative shooter to sink your friend group’s collective teeth into, you might want to check out Abyssus—and you’ll get that chance, well, tomorrow, as revealed in today’s trailer in The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. The short features a group of ironclad deep sea divers jumping through a portal…
Today on the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, creator of PUBG, announced that his next project, a survival game called Prologue: Go Wayback! will launch into early access on Steam next year. When I say “next project” I really mean “one of his next projects.” Greene is cooking up several at his…
How do you follow up the creation of one of the biggest games of all time? If you’re Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, it’s by building something even bigger. Greene, creator of PUBG, founded a studio called PlayerUnknown Productions where he and his team have been working on a massively multiplayer sandbox called Artemis: a digital…