Hogwarts Legacy's PlayStation-exclusive content is coming to other platforms this summer along with 'additional updates and features'

Hogwarts Legacy’s PlayStation-exclusive content is coming to other platforms this summer along with ‘additional updates and features’

People like Hogwarts Legacy an awful lot—it was the biggest game of 2023—but one thing they didn’t like (and by “they” I mean associate editor Ted Litchfield) was the inclusion of PlayStation-exclusive content. “How will we live without an exclusive quest and a Felix Felicis Potion Recipe?” he asked, in what I am certain was…

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When PC RPGs were at their crunchiest and most hardcore in the 1990s, Farland Story set itself apart by… being cute?

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: TGL Released: 1993 PCs: PC-98 (Image credit: TGL) Old RPGs, especially grid-based ones created for dusty computers equipped with dual floppy drives, are often stubborn, complex…

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Underrated hack ‘n’ slash Blades of Fire heads to Steam with a 2.0 update, bringing new game plus and ‘expanded death and mutilation variations’ for you sickos out there

I was extremely excited for Blades of Fire when it was announced last year, mainly because it was clearly MercurySteam’s spiritual successor to ye-olde hack ‘n’ slash Blade of Darkness. At least, from my perspective it was clear. I was possibly the only person in the entire world eagerly awaiting a Blades of Darkness successor….

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Shapez 2 leaves early access with a new game mode all about building massive factories: ‘This isn’t just a game is finished release’

For much of its early access development, Shapez 2 was an interesting alternative to the tentpole automation sims like Factorio and Satisfactory. A more streamlined affair that dispensed with many of the supplementary systems seen in those aforementioned games, Shapez 2 adopted a more puzzle-centric approach to assembly-line construction. That’s still very much the case….

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