Elden Ring Nightreign is immediately FromSoft's worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'This is not the Elden Ring you are looking for'

‘Pinball Spire’ Brings “Pinballvania” To Switch Today

Flip, fire, fight. Apparition Games, which consists entirely of solo game dev Tom Voros, has just announced that its ‘pinballvania’ adventure game, Pinball Spire, will hit the Switch eShop…well…now. It’s available today! Yes, this Indie.io-published affair, which has been garnering positive feedback on Steam since it released there in October last year, sees you assume…

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Phanteks Eclipse G400A review

Phanteks has put together a mighty strong proposition in the Phanteks Eclipse G400A. It’s affordable, easy to build into, and importantly comes with four large fans for plenty of airflow. To give the Eclipse G400A a proper test, I set about building an affordable PC inside it. Easier said than done in today’s economy, but…

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Hot off making the biggest city in any Elder Scrolls game, Tamriel Rebuilt is already eyeing one ‘Twice the size’

Modding project Tamriel Rebuilt’s quest to make the rest of Morrowind continues apace, even over two decades after it began. The team has just released Grasping Fortune, its biggest expansion yet, bringing with it the sprawling city of Narsis. As House Hlaalu capital, Narsis took years to put together and features over 600 interiors, which…

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Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang says Chinese competitors are ‘quite formidable’ just days after the announcement of a Chinese RTX 4060-level GPU powering up

US export controls have increasingly stopped GPUs with certain AI capabilities from getting into China, and just this week, Nvidia stated the US’s ban of H20 chips into the country meant a ‘multibillion-dollar write-off‘ for the tech company. Though these protectionist policies from the US are not keeping China from building its own GPUs, as…

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A game claiming the backing of Russia’s military just popped up on Steam: ‘I understand Ukrainian players don’t like us’

A new game hit Steam yesterday—Squad 22: ZOV. Claiming to be “officially recommended by the Russian Military for use as a basic infantry tactic manual for cadet and Yunarmy [Russia’s state organisation for young army cadets] training” and set in the ongoing war in Ukraine, Squad 22 puts you in command of teams of Russian…

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Despite ‘mixed’ user reviews, Elden Ring Nightreign explodes onto Steam, with 300,000-150,000 players presumably getting wrecked by a big dog

Elden Ring Nightreign‘s not debuting to the best of review scores from users—which is hardly surprising. I’m really starting to rather enjoy myself after 19 hours, but it took a minute to get adjusted to the sheer, unrestrained chaos of FromSoftware’s most experimental game to date. That hasn’t stopped it from hitting the Steam concurrent…

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