Ugly. Confusing. Mechanically unintuitive. Designed by a madman. These are the comments I’ve received on Hinge dates, but they’re also how I’d describe Brigand: Oaxaca , a baffling but brilliant immersive sim from 2017 whose emphasis is on “total freedom of action” and murdering you repeatedly. It’s hard, and has an uncompromising old-school design approach…
Lenovo isn’t messing around with its Legion gaming PCs. They are resolutely, uncompromisingly just PCs. Sure, there’s the faintest nod to ‘gamer’ styling with the RGB-illuminated front panel and the see-through side, but the Legion Tower 5i is, without wanting to sound at all mean, pretty basic. Which I think is grand. I am all…
One in a million. Nintendo’s latest financial report is in, giving us the official sales numbers for all of its best-selling games as of 31st December 2025. We already highlighted the best-sellers, in fact, but we couldn’t help but notice that both Metroid Prime 4: Beyond — in either its Switch 1 or Switch 2…
If there were ever a laptop design to be right “up my alley”, as we brits like to say, it would be this one. That’s because it makes its sacrifices in exactly the right places to deliver something genuinely portable, sleek, elegant, and satisfying to use both for gaming and work. The MSI ‘Stealth’ laptop…
Remember the big 4K update for Fallout 4 that was announced in 2022 as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the original Fallout? The good news is that it’s still happening, but the bad news is that it’s not happening until sometime in 2024. The Fallout 4 “next-gen update” for PC, Xbox Series X-S,…
It’s time to raise the stakes higher than ever before. You’ve broken a convicted spy out of Bolingbroke Penitentiary. You’ve saved the world from an egomaniacal tech billionaire. And you’ve beaten the odds to drain a casino of its cash. This time, you’re taking on an entire island. Play Video Prepare to infiltrate the remote…
Dinosaur Survival Horror While the gaming world waits for Dino Crisis to one day be raised from the grave, the indie scene is already being treated to the bone-chilling world of Fossilfuel 2, a puzzle-filled horror shooter with a huge cast of dinosaurs. Developed by indie outlet DangerousBob Studio LLC, this highly-anticipated sequel takes survival…
If hell is other people, heaven might just be Erenshor—assuming you like old-school MMOs in the style of EverQuest, anyway. It’s very much that style of game, but in a simulated solo world where other ‘players’ are just computer-controlled NPCs called simplayers. You can even party up and form a guild with them, which will…
LETCHWORTH, UK: Evercade, a brand of Blaze Entertainment, has published an informative instructional video on the process of sharing your physical Evercade game cartridges with friends. In this short video, available on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok and Bluesky, the team at Evercade gives a concise and detailed explanation of how you can share your Evercade game cartridges with friends in order to…
It is a brave publisher which, weeks before its game launches, is confident enough in its product to release a benchmark tool so PC people can get a bead on how well a game will run on their exact rig before spending their money on the game in question. I mean, this is why we…