I had fun playing XDefiant when it launched: It was a free-to-play hero shooter with a lot of Call of Duty in its veins, and it was pretty good, but not popular enough to dodge the live service graveyard. Ubisoft announced this year that XDefiant will shut down in 2025, and executive producer Mark Rubin…
Since XCOM and XCOM 2 cemented themselves as the definitive PC strategy games of the 2010s, the Long War mods likewise became the definitive enhancements for both games. Longer, tougher, more varied, the Long War mods upped the complexity of some already impressively complex games, to the point we had XCOM expert John “Beagle” Teasdale…
Like Spotify, Steam now gives us a recap of our gaming habits at the end of each year, and the 2024 Steam Replay is now available to digest. If you’re logged into Steam, you can’t miss the big button at the top of the store. This year’s Replay shows how you stack up to the…
Christmas came early for me yesterday. After previously announcing Project Zomboid’s long-awaited Build 42 would be out by the end of the year, developer The Indie Stone released the absolutely colossal update on Tuesday. In terms of the sheer number of features—from a total crafting overhaul to a considerable expansion of the already huge map—this…
I’m really not sure where to begin with this one, so I’m just going to lay it out and then try to explain later: A recent update to Zenless Zone Zero made it impossible to get a good look at character’s asses, and the blowback was so fierce developer MiHoYo reverted the change less than…
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to PC in January, and you know what that means: nude mods. Game director Naoki Hamaguchi would really prefer if you didn’t do that, though, saying in an interview with Epic Games that he hopes everyone will keep it clean. There’s a whole host of mods available for the…
Around £250k’s work have been taken in a “targeted attack”. Thousands of pounds of Pokémon Trading Cards have been stolen from Ace Grading, a Banbury-based Card Grading company run by TCG YouTuber Randolph. As reported by the BBC, the break in took place on Friday 13th December in what Randolph and his company has called…
So Ciri’s a Witcher now, taking the lead in The Witcher 4, and that has resulted in questions. Some of them are the predictable hue and cry about a girl taking over for Geralt—complaints about “wokeness” and DEI and all that sort of nonsense—but there are also legitimate questions about how it all fits with…
Helldivers 2 takes two steps forward and one leap back. Less than a week after surprise dropping the Omens of Tyranny update at The Game Awards, Arrowhead has dropped another surprise, though this one isn’t as fun or exciting: Helldivers 2 just got a Killzone armor set, cosmetics, and a Helghast gun, which is kinda…
If you’re a regular reader of our hardware news and reviews, you’ll know that Intel’s much-vaunted Core Ultra 200S series of processors not only failed to impress at launch but it’s seemingly been left to flag against the competition. In a new blog post today, which we’ve had early access to, Intel says that while…