Calling all jockeys, we’re off to the races! It’s the year of the horse, and what better way to celebrate than with Steam Horse Fest? It’s already bolted out of the gate, and you’ve got until February 23 to pick up a stableful of games about horses and other horse-adjacent animals at a nice little…
Though it doesn’t hold up particularly well, Star Wars: Dark Forces was a pretty big deal back in 1996. Outlaws, on the other hand, wasn’t: it was LucasArts’ second attempt at a first-person shooter using its own Jedi Engine, and few people I talk to about ’90s FPS games ever seem to remember it. Which…
Overclocking locked Skylake processors Good news, budget builders — motherboard makers are releasing BIOS updates that allow non-K Skylake processors to be overclocked. That isn’t how it’s supposed to be. Like Haswell and Broadwell, Intel “locks” certain 6th Generation Core processors so that users can’t easily make BCLK adjustments to boost base clock frequencies. If…
Tanks for the memories. Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives series is back with another cabinet classic on Switch 2. I got to check out Jet Ski racer Aqua Jet back in August, which was a lovingly crafted port. This time I’m revisiting the destructive tank combat of Namco’s Tokyo Wars, which served as inspiration for The…
Nintendo Europe has announced this afternoon that those of you with an active Nintendo Switch Online membership can play the entertaining Overcooked 2 for free for a limited period of time. The free trial for the cooperative cooking simulation begins this Wednesday and ends next Tuesday. Nintendo of America has yet to announce the same…
Jagex has launched its open world survival crafting game, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, into early access, even though it was only shown for the first time on March 31. Ahead of its release, a developer update livestream was scheduled to share some more details on the game, including its coveted release date, but little did we know…
Including DLC and a brand new game. At Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 this week, Bandai Namco shared two announcements tied to the future of its Dragon Ball Xenoverse series. Firstly, “the last DLC” for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – officially titled Future Saga Chapter 4 – will launch in Summer 2026. Read the…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a breathtaking RPG narrative told in three acts—it’s also been the bane of my life for the past couple of weeks. I’m starting to feel like Phil Connors in Groundhog Day: an indestructible god powered by foresight stuck in a time loop. Except Connors had no choice—I’m doing this to myself…
Available to pre-order now from Strictly Limited Games. Last month, Giants Software, the developer behind the hugely successful Farming Simulator series, announced via a trailer on its YouTube channel that it would be releasing Farming Simulator 16-Bit — a new retro demake of the classic sim for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. And it’s now…
When I sat down to chat with Ripple Effect studio design director Justin Wiebe last week, we’d planned to talk RedSec. Wiebe helped lead the charge on Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode developed primarily at the Los Angeles-based Ripple Effect, but on the day, we ended up chatting more about Portal—its expansive feature set, boundless…