80 hours into Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’ve just completed Act Two. I’ve battled through goblin camps, explored the Underdark, and braved the cursed shadowlands around Moonrise Tower. I’ve saved countless lives, and taken almost as many. I’ve broken my Paladin oath and had it restored. I’m even halfway to becoming a psychic squid man….
Ninja Gaiden 4 got a new trailer and a release date at today’s Xbox Games Showcase, and this thing looks like a fever dream I had back in 2013: which I mean as a compliment. I mean, what more is there to life than murdering enemy ninjas and demons in incredibly graceful and over-the-top fashion?…
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord debuted in 1981 for the Apple II and very quickly became a hit, launching an acclaimed and influential series of RPGs that would persist throughout the 1980s and ’90s. A remake of that game dropped in 2024, and to our great surprise it was nominated for a Grammy…
Did Silksong kill the metroidvania? At least two high quality “search action” platformers released on Steam last week, but you might have struggled to learn about them amid the buzz around Subnautica 2, and the clamouring to find a new angle on Mixtape. One is Shattered Divinities, an interesting Chinese-developed fantasy outing. The other is…
Radio NECstalgia is now available online. A new radio station has just been launched for fans of NEC’s PC Engine. Radio NECstalgia is available to listen to online for free on Netlify and was recently brought to our attention thanks to the NEC super fan and La Bible PC Engine author Sébastien Valencia. It was…
As a CRPG fan of a certain vintage, I have a lot of fondness for Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines developer Troika’s fantasy steampunk RPG. But it’s now over two decades old, and still incredibly rough around the edges (and, frankly, everywhere else), so it’s not the most playable…
A lot of my favourite games ever made fall under the expansive rubric of “eurojank.” Stalker, the first Witcher, Mount & Blade—the list goes on. But maybe it’s a little unfair to confine the jank phenomenon exclusively to Europe. After all, what is 2004 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, which is still getting fan…
The Marathon info continues to come thick-and-fast: the last few days saw the release date of March 5 accidentally revealed by an Xbox store listing, quickly confirmed by Sony, followed by Bungie revealing the game’s stacked voice cast, featuring talent from pretty much every big game of the last decade. Now an update to the…
A press release for Join Us, a multiplayer cult-shepherding game that debuted with a trailer at today’s PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, points out that “a cult leader with no followers is just a lonely weirdo.” As a weirdo who considers himself both prolific and surrounded by my weird peers, I’m happy to put my…
The new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer is graphically impressive in a way videogame trailers generally aren’t anymore. That’s to be expected: Rockstar has more resources than any other studio in the world, and nowadays, the graphics arms race favours studios with loads of money, time, and talent at their disposal rather than just, say,…