EA’s Behind the Sims presentation was stuffed with a variety of news—a new start screen for The Sims 4, new base game items, and a townie home refresh—but some non-Sims 4 news I’m particularly excited about is the fact that the MySims: Cozy Bundle is getting a PC port, heading to our desktops on March…
Marvel Rivals landed with a wide roster, boasting 33 heroes when it launched on December 5. Just over a month later, the hero shooter’s received two additions to its lineup, thanks to the arrival of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman with the advent of Season 1. NetEase has set an impressive pace—and according to game…
NCsoft is working on a “modern reinterpretation” of its Blade and Soul MMO called Blade and Soul Neo, a remaster that promises a range of visual enhancements, gameplay updates, and a way for fans to “re-live that pure MMO action fantasy experience they once knew.” Blade and Soul Neo will follow the storyline of the…
PRE-ORDER HERE P-47 II MD is based on the 1988 arcade shooting game ‘P-47’, released by Jaleco. The game was secretly developed in 1990 under the title ‘P-47Ⅱ FREEDOM STAR’ as Jaleco’s first entry into the MD platform. Although completed, its release was canceled due to the circumstances of the time. Now, 35 years later,…
It’s been a somewhat bizarre launch for Intel with its Core Ultra desktop processors crashing and burning (thankfully not physically this time) in reviews and sales figures are understandably poor, especially when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which even outsold all of AMD’s other Ryzen 9000 CPUs combined. It’s only because of a long…
As part of a handful of 25th anniversary updates, The Sims 4 start screen just got a big overhaul. My first instinct was of course to recoil in the face of a major visual change, because even small tweaks to social media feeds activate the human fight or flight response—and this redesign in particular initially…
Larian Studios, the videogame company that set a new standard in narrative excellence by letting you have sex with the bear, says Baldur’s Gate 3 players have now downloaded more than 100 million mods for the game, a very big number it’s celebrating with some very big naturals. “You are modding naturals,” Larian posted on…
As I wrote this, AMD and its motherboard partners had just launched cheaper chipsets options for its Socket AM5 platform, with high expectations for the new B850 chipset in particular given how popular previous B-series options were. But there are still plenty of options below $300 even if you opt for X870 for your AMD…
The Sims franchise creative VP Lyndsay Pearson isn’t worried about other developers trying to stake their claim in EA’s long-held life sim monopoly; rather, she welcomes the rivalry. Speaking to PC Gamer about the series’ 25th anniversary and the future of The Sims, Pearson dove a little into why she thinks the life sim genre…
The Sims series turns 25 next month—fully developed frontal lobe and all—and Maxis has started laying out how it will be celebrating the milestone with new announcements, merch, and game updates. The Sims 4 is getting several different updates and free content drops, starting today and with more to come on the actual anniversary on…