PC gaming has natural ebbs and flows. There are years that absolutely blow me out of the water and ones that fade into the mists shortly after they’re gone. Looking purely at new releases, I was starting to feel like 2024 might be the latter. There were some real standouts, like Metaphor: ReFantazio and Tactical…
Awoken from a long hibernation, you find the pond abandoned and ruined. Through genetic manipulation of local frogs and plants you must restore your world, solving puzzles across frog generations in order to meet odd little goals—a bit of mad science experimentation along the way is encouraged. It’s not Bloodborne, it’s Mudborne, which is set…
Stalker 2 has released, the long-awaited sequel to a PC classic that our own Joshua Wolens found “is still Stalker, down to its bones.” The most pleasing element for fellow Zone-fanciers is that, after all this time, the game largely sticks to the design sensibilities of the originals, and as our review says “hasn’t sacrificed…
Plus ‘Play Days’ event with over 40 publishers. It’s been confirmed that Summer Game Fest will return this year with a 2-hour showcase taking place on 6th June at the YouTube Theatre in Los Angeles. Following this, a ‘Play Days’ hands-on event will take place from 7th-9th June in which media and influencers can experience…
I love Thief: The Dark Project so much I push for its inclusion in the PC Gamer Top 100 every year (and sometimes I get my way). Seems like Thomas Porta loves Thief too, as demonstrated by the footage of his upcoming stealth game Serpens: Eternal Thievery. As well as a gameplay trailer there’s a…
Deadlock’s latest set of changes is mostly hero buffs and nerfs, part of a change of schedule that’s seen the devs dish out bigger updates less frequently. The bulk of hero changes are focused on newer additions like Vyper, Holliday, Calico, and Sinclar. Calico’s Leaping Slash ability has been reworked a little, making the area…
Positive first impression It looks like the developers working frantically to fix various issues in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight have made some good progress. How do we know? Someone at WB Games screwed up and made the patch available on Steam to those who opted into the game’s beta. Oops! Several players…
One year after the Steam Next Fest demo for Dark and Darker become one of the biggest games on Steam, another extraction-dungeon-crawler called Dungeonborne—first teased in September 2023 as Project Crawl—is replicating the feat with gameplay that looks a whole lot like its predecessor. Dungeonborne’s premise is simple: Pick a fantasy character class, team up…
One of this year’s biggest surprises. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kate delves into a new addition to a f2p indie minnow called ‘Fortnite’ that turns out to be one of 2023’s best surprises… Read the full…
Inzoi director Hyungjun ‘Kjun’ Kim may have been making videogames for over two decades, but his upcoming life sim is unlike anything he’s made before. With most of Kjun’s portfolio lying with Korean MMOs like Elyon and Aion, venturing into life sims is quite the transition. Especially when you consider that it’s a genre with…