It always bugged me that you couldn’t save the scientists in Half-Life. You’d be trundling through some grey corridor in the bowels of Black Mesa, with one or two or maybe even three lab coat wearing boffins behind you, when they’d suddenly stop for no obvious reason, announcing: “This is as far as I go!”…
Spending hours passing the time in a colorful life sim by farming, crafting, decorating, and exploring is great—but it’s even better with some friends along for the ride. In upcoming cozy MMO Loftia, that’s just what you’ll do: build a house on a floating island in the sky and connect it up with your friends’…
I remember reading a quote once by famed French novelist and literary critic Marcel Proust: “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” In that vein, our zeal for the experiences of yesteryear as gamers often unintentionally overrides how we actually experienced them originally. More often than not, we…
Nintendo’s first foray into the Mario Kart series on mobile devices, Mario Kart Tour, has received a new character Pink Gold Peach. As you can see from the image above, she truly illuminates the race track. Her special item is none other than the generous Coin Box. The free-to-play Mario Kart Tour is available right…
Let’s set aside the noxious cloud of internet surrounding Highguard for a second, ignore those overwhelmingly negative Steam reviews full of folks who’ve played it for less than an hour, and pretend Highguard is just a new free-to-play FPS that came out today. Hey, Highguard is out. I played around six hours between launch day…
Tear up the court in NBA 2K25, survive a horror-filled manor in Alone in the Dark, combo your way through a future world in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and take on some sci-fi adventures in Destiny 2: The Final Shape with June’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup. Let’s take a closer look at each game. View…
NZXT’s previous efforts in their Function line of keyboards has totalled some excellent all-round mechanical options with some solid enthusiast-level features. The older Function Mini TKL that Dave reviewed nearly three years ago impressed with its customisability and small form factor layout. This new version keeps some of the same features, although with the word…
The latest edition of Japanese publication Weekly Famitsu contains a bumper interview with the team behind the beloved Kirby series. This includes the lead action programmer Katsuyoshi Sumitomo, general director Shinya Kumazaki, and design director Riki Fuhrmann. Talking to the team at Weekly Famitsu, Mr. Fuhrmann said that he would love to make the ultimate…
If you’ve played a Paradox game before, you know the deal. The studios’ 4X and grand strategy games in particular tend to have very long lives supplemented by constant infusions of paid DLC, ranging from piecemeal addons to full-on expansions. It doesn’t always go to plan, and the execution was particularly spotty with Europa Universalis…
A new video released by notorious rumour channel Moore’s Law is Dead is digging into the potential RTX 5090 release date and quotes a source, claiming to be from inside Nvidia, stating that whether it launches its next-gen cards in 2024 will be largely down to how competitive AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs will be. The…