The god game is a strange, beloved, and deeply PC niche. It’s torn between the tensions of being a strategy game and a world simulator. Demiurgos, the next game from the developers of Martian terraforming sim Per Aspera, is revisiting playing god with a mix of old and new ideas that—after a few hours with…
Unique in a market that desperately needs it. For the past several years, there has been shockingly little innovation in the gaming handheld space. Most products adopt the same candy bar design, with a few outliers chasing nostalgic designs like the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo 3DS, or even PS Vita. But the Anbernic RG…
Category: Games March 5, 2025 “Did We Actually Do That?”: Josef Fares Explains How Split Fiction Pushes the Co-Op Adventure Genre Further Than Ever Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief There was a moment, after years of development on Split Fiction began to come to a close, where director Josef Fares found himself playing through his…
Only 19 of the ‘05 NISMO R34 GT-R Z-tune were produced by Nissan’s performance division. Nineteen. With some mathing, that’s one of Z-tune R34 for every 424,315,789 humans on Earth. If you happen to be one of the ridiculously few, good for you. For the rest of us, we have the free Update 1.61 from…
Prologue: Go Wayback! is the next game for PlayerUnknown Productions. It’s an upcoming survival game which is heading into early access soon, but it has longer aspirations and goals than just getting to launch, it’s just the first step towards the ultimate goal of making a meterverse. “The bigger vision is creating an Open Source…
‘Embers of Mana’ is out now. A brand new Game Boy ROM hack has just been released that transforms Final Fantasy Adventure (otherwise known as Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in Japan, and Mystic Quest in Europe) into an entirely new game. Embers of Mana is the work of the ROM hacker Ok Impala!, and…
V Rising, a game that ah-ah-ah’d its way into a fairly successful early access in 2022, is finally hurling aside the stone lid of its early access tomb to suck away some more hours of your life. A nifty isometric ARPG-slash-survival-game by Stunlock (previously known for Battlerite and, more unfortunately, Battlerite Royale), V Rising landed…
The videogame-to-TV pipeline grew a little wider today with a Deadline report revealing that a show based on Quantic Dream’s action-adventure Beyond: Two Souls is now in development at Elliot Page’s Pageboy Productions. Page, you’ll recall, starred in Beyond: Two Souls, a “psychological action thriller” about a girl whose powerful telepathic abilities lead her into…
On the eve of her prophesied awakening, Simurgh, the goddess of Lantern City, has been kidnapped by The Scientist, and it falls to you—a young girl named Zig who spends a lot of time on her phone—to figure out what’s going on. That’s the beginning of the story in 30 Birds, a gorgeous and unexpectedly…
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got back to his 95-hour Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 playthrough and discovered there’s still a lot of main quest to go. Before the quick match button, before the party system, before skill-based matchmaking, we had the server browser: A literal list of all active matches, neatly…