Interviewing Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton for PC Gamer’s upcoming print issue 408 (396 in the US), I was curious how the game’s new, robust melee and parries would translate to challenge runs. Could you beat the game with those mechanics alone, never touching the guns? While Martin…
At long last, Dune: Awakening is here. While people who purchased the more expensive editions have been playing since June 5, today is the day Funcom’s survival MMO goes into full launch. As written! As of 7:00 am PST the game is officially out and the servers are up. I’ll keeping tabs on the launch,…
Denuvo DRM is an object of hate for many gamers. Being anti-piracy software that may or may not slow down your PC, it’s become something of a boogeyman, to the point where—in a frankly ill-advised attempt to reach out to gamers, a Discord server for the software had to be shut down in two days….
Launching later this month. If you ever played the Geometry Wars series back in the day, or are into titles like Vampire Survivors, you might be interested in this rather familiar-looking release from indie studio Brain Seal. It’s called Geometry Survivor and is described as a rogue-lite survival auto-shooter with aesthetics similar to the Geometry…
As reported by Automaton and ThisIsGame, the civil case between publisher Nexon and developer Ironmace has been settled, with the South Korean Supreme Court ordering Ironmace to pay Nexon 5.7 billion won ($3.84 million) in damages. The decision doesn’t appear to be a clear victory for either party, and the criminal case related to Nexon’s…
We had some shocking news at the start of 2019 stating that Metroid Prime 4‘s development was being completely restarted. The concept and ideas the team at Bandai Namco had been working on for quite some time had been canned and the project started afresh. It now appears as though Nintendo could be speeding up…
It’s hard not to be eager for The Alters, the scifi survival game from Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios that our Joshua Wolens once described as “Subnautica plus Midnight Suns except instead of Wolverine and Blade you’re juggling your relationships with several clones of a working class Polish guy.” With a pitch like that—and a…
Dive into layer after layer of VR madness with Accounting+, brought to you by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and Crows Crows Crows designer William Pugh. Accounting+ features instruments made out of human remains, dark secrets, demonic summons, and an angry Tree Guy. I will be honest when I admit that I don’t understand…
Zophar’s ‘Retro Rewind’ Episode Two is out now on YouTube! The founder of the emulation website Zophar’s Domain, Brad “Zophar” Levicoff, is back with another episode of his ongoing retro video game series, Retro Rewind — this time focusing on the world of speedrunning in the 1990s. Speedrunning is obviously a huge part of gaming…
Today, we’re proud to announce that a new version of the blockbuster detective thriller L.A. Noire is scheduled to release on November 14, 2017 for PlayStation 4. Set against the seedy and violent underbelly of 1940’s Los Angeles, L.A. Noire is the story of decorated veteran and newly minted detective Cole Phelps as he investigates…