As reported by AV Club, actor Nicky Katt has died at age 54 of an unspecified cause. While he’s better-known to most for a portfolio full of character actor roles, often as a jerk or bully or outright villain in movies like Dazed and Confused, Strange Days, SubUrbia, Boiler Room, School of Rock, The Limey,…
The Civilization games are full of historical information, but it’s mixed together and cut with fantastical contrivances that make it fun to play—which is how I recently went toe-to-toe with Harriet Tubman as Han Dynasty emperor Niccolò Machiavelli when I played Civilization 7 for this month’s PC Gamer cover feature. The games aren’t history tutors,…
For the first time since switching to an annual expansion cycle, Guild Wars 2’s next release will introduce a new set of elite specializations for each of the game’s nine classes—or professions, as they’re called in-game. Elite specs are a pretty big deal—making fundamental changes to how a profession plays. New traits, utility skills and…
And we thought our love lives were a disaster. If you play enough video games, you can see when developers are playing it safe, but that isn’t the case for Outerloop’s Thirsty Suitors. If anything, it is trying to do too much, its ambition reaching to heights that its budget simply can’t deliver, but we…
Lies of P was already one of my favourite non-FromSoftware soulslikes—partially because I’m a big Sekiro freak, but also because it was just very well put together. Then its DLC released and it blew my freaking socks off. It’s done good by developer Neowiz, too—not only selling well, but also pulling in an award for…
Famitsuits you, sir. The latest Famitsu scores have hit the inter tubes (thanks, Gematsu) and in amongst all the excitement, we’ve got our very first score for the upcoming Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian. The popular Japanese gaming magazine has awarded Gust’s latest 8/8/8/8 , which ain’t too bad at all…
Get more out of Google Drive With 240 million monthly active users, there’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you’ve used Google Drive before. The cloud-based file storage and synchronization service is far more than a virtual storage container, it’s also a parking spot for several of Google’s other services, such as the…
Bethesda has rolled out a new patch for Oblivion Remastered that promises numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, and also adds a little more flexibility to combat difficulty settings. The difficulty adjustment is neither a nerf to this nor a buff to that, but rather the addition of a new “Journeyman” setting that Bethesda hopes…
One of the things that struck me most while I was working on my review of Alan Wake 2 is how many different methods the game has of conveying elements of the story. Beyond the in-engine cutscenes there’s also live action sequences, radio shows and television clips, novel pages, photographs, original songs, and more. But…
Announcing the ‘Woolhaven’ expansion. Every developer is rushing to get their last announcements of 2025 out the door, and with this in mind, the team behind Cult of the Lamb has today locked in a date for their new expansion, which will be dropping on Switch and multiple other platforms. The Massive Monster family confirmed…