The Steam concurrents record for 25-year-old Valve game Ricochet has been blown out of the water by a group of players brought together by Half-Life fansite LambdaGeneration. Valve has made some of the most influential games of all time, but Ricochet probably can’t be put in that category. The arena combat game is best-known today…
Today sees the publication of Henk Rogers’ memoir, The Perfect Game—Tetris: From Russia With Love. Rogers has had a long and storied career in the games industry, but he will undoubtedly always be best-known for his association with Tetris, and in particular his leading role in extricating it from the Soviet bureaucracy and getting the…
Often dubbed as the “realistic Sims competitor” or even a potential “Sims killer,” in the weeks leading up to Inzoi‘s early access launch, quite a few life sim players made the game out to be a natural enemy of The Sims. Thanks to a recent interaction between the two games on social media, though, it…
I didn’t have a PSP when the original Patapon came out in 2007 but I did have access to one at my back-then job, which afforded me the opportunity to play around with it a bit. I don’t remember much about it except that it was quite good (and of course the relentless, rhythmic pata-pata-pata-pon…
Although there are times when the stealth gameplay is a blast, the mediocre controls and cliche-filled writing, combined with sloppy A.I. make the diamond that is hidden in “Styx: Master of Shadows” too difficult to find. Stealth games aren’t for everyone. In a society that prides itself on the speed and efficiency of its wants,…
Steel Hunters takes the the spark-filled clashes between Megatron and Optimus Prime and slows them down to create a methodic, tactical experience with familiar hero shooter and extraction elements. The mech battler from World of Tanks developer Wargaming releases in early access on Steam this week, on April 2. I played a demo of Steel…
Schedule 1 is all about slowly climbing your way to the top of Hyland Point’s criminal underground, but there’s a lot of busy work along the way. There’s a long list of Schedule 1 console commands and cheats that can help you skip the tedious parts of the simulated drug business and focus on the…
Drug-dealer simulator Schedule 1 is as popular as Walter White’s blue meth in Breaking Bad, but it’s also in early access, which means there are plenty of new features and additions to the game to look forward to. To get a hint of what’s to come, I checked out the development roadmap, and there’s a…
Remember that brief moment immediately after Inzoi’s release when we could turn children into tire pizza? Good times. Krafton quickly patched out that little oversight, but it turns out that David Carradine cosplay wasn’t the only way young ‘uns could check out early, so now developers have done something about that too. Today’s new hotfix,…
Crumbs in the socket, nothing to see here. So, said ASRock last week in a blog post addressing reports of dead AMD Ryzen 9000 chips in its motherboards. But does that really fly in the context of getting on for 100 Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs said to have died in ASRock boards? To be more…