Out of all the new things added to Diablo 4 with its new Lord of Hatred expansion, Echoing Hatred might be the most mysterious. It’s not a dungeon, nor is it a boss fight: It’s a fight to the death against relentless waves of monsters. But the only way to play it is by finding…
It’s the day after the release of S&box, the successor to the legendary sandbox game Garry’s Mod: Reviews are mixed, complaints are plentiful, player numbers are a fraction of Garry’s Mod, and Facepunch Studios says in a post-release update that everything is going “pretty much exactly as expected.” “The backend went down once or twice….
The Sims 4’s big ghost overhaul expansion turned the afterlife into an entire occult sim experience with new ghost abilities and a Soul’s Journey quest to dog your sim past the grave. This full list of Life & Death cheats can help you max out your Thanatology skills, cheat to the top of the new…
State Lines Shape What Players See Social casino platforms rarely present the same offers everywhere. A promotion that appears in one state may be hidden in another because operators have to align marketing, verification, and redemption rules with local law. Those differences are not cosmetic. They affect which games are shown, which bonuses are eligible,…
Payday studio Starbreeze has announced a new partnership with Gamefam, “the leading immersive gaming and media company for Gen Z and Alpha communities,” to develop an all-new Payday game within the realm of Roblox. The as-yet untitled game, which will “offer players a distinct new entry point into the Payday universe,” is set to debut…
It was just another day at PC Gamer towers when a colleague posted a message in Slack bemoaning that they keep getting jump-scared after “accidentally pressing the button in Google Docs that causes an AI woman to start reading articles at me.” I simply replied: “Clippy would never” to which they said “Clippy has blood…
Some toys are fun. Some toys accidentally predict the future. The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell did both. To a kid in early middle school back in the late 70s / early 80s, it felt less like a spelling toy and more like a tiny robot computer from another planet. A Toy That Felt Like…
Constance craving. The idea of an indie Metroidvania exploring mental illness has become a bit of a cliche. The past decade has seen successes in the genre like the Hollow Knight and Ori games, as well as titles like Celeste that manifest their main character’s mental journey through their mechanics. Constance owes a lot to…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. It only took 90 minutes with S&box (pronounced “sandbox”) to learn what many closed beta…
Less than two months after the 1.0 release of Greedfall: The Dying World, French RPG studio Spiders is closing its doors. The surprise shutdown is fallout from the financial troubles of parent company Nacon, which filed for insolvency in February after its majority shareholder, Bigben Interactive, was unable to meet its own financial obligations. The…