Oh my god, I am so freaking tired of live service games. I know, I know, they’re a necessary evil. It’s 2023, baby, videogames ain’t what they used to be. They cost way more to make and developers have to continue toiling away on patches and expansions post-release. Money has to be made and, for…
I don’t own an uncomfortably expensive gaming machine just so I can thoughtlessly crank almost every graphics setting in new games to ultra and then bask in the glow of their raytraced glory. I mean, I do do that, but I also can clog up my SSD with decades worth of incredible classics too, and…
PC gaming is, unfortunately, a relatively expensive hobby. But if there’s one component these days that draws the most ire in regards to cost, it’s the GPU, particularly if you’re looking to buy a high-end card. While many of us lust after the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards of our dreams, the serious…
Steam Deck the halls, it’s festive season once again. Thankfully, dragging yourself into social situations for the holidays has gotten a little easier over 2023 with the release of so many great gaming handhelds. This year, we got an update from Valve in the form of the Steam Deck OLED, so now’s a great time…
I deliver chainsaw death to the demon horde, all the while dodging incessant gun fire, balls of fire and flying, shrieking, flaming skulls. Oh, and did I mention I’m doing this in hell, with lava and poison-filled pits left, right and centre? This is John Romero’s SIGIL II, the hard-as-nails unofficial sixth episode for Doom,…
“A delayed game is eventually good,” Nintendo legend Shigeru Miaymoto is falsely claimed to have said, “a bad game is bad forever.” What about a game that I really liked but had some serious issues on launch, so nobody else liked it, but it gradually improved over the course of three years and now everybody…
Thanks to its delightful sandbox traversal, Tchia became our favourite open world game of the year. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 hub. Chris Livingston, Senior Editor: I love open world games, but such a familiar formula has been established that so many of them wind up feeling predictable. Collection…
The Year of Mario? Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Richard looks back on a year when Nintendo let Mario get a little loose… If 2013 was the Year of Luigi, 2023 may as well have been the…
I had doubts about Atomic Heart when it was first revealed in 2018. I love me a good, janky Eastern European shooter—somebody really should remaster Cryostasis—but it looked a little too good, especially for a debut game from an unknown studio. I needn’t have worried though, because boy, it delivers: It’s a frantic, funny game,…
Sam Barlow talks for the first time about the doomed sequel. “This is one of the most troubled franchises in history,” says Sam Barlow of the Legacy of Kain series. “I think every single entry, even if they launched, launched in a cut, curtailed, broken state. This was a franchise that has never gone to…