It lives! Superhero movies appear to have hit a bump in the road of late, with Marvel struggling to maintain its cinematic universe and DC finding that nostalgia alone isn’t enough to turn films like The Flash into box office gold. The genre is still big business, however, and Sony – which owns the cinematic…
While your main goal in Schedule 1 is to build a thriving…garden, you’ve got to keep up appearances. When you start the game, you can choose from a few basic clothes (or opt for nothing but your undies), so you’ll soon fancy a fresh fit. For something so simple, it’s not at all obvious how…
Greetings! Anyone heard of Gravity? Interstellar? Jupiter Ascending? Pluto’s surface? While everyone seems to be on space frenzy nowadays, it sounds just fit to talk about space shmups too! No, not another 2D retro look-a-like. Something more respectful of what this great genre deserves. A truly 3D space shmup that pushes it both on challenge…
Hey, have you heard about this game about digging a hole that’s coming out next year? It’s called A Game About Digging A Hole and that’s pretty much what it’s about. You dig a hole in your backyard and find treasure and ores and you sell all that stuff and use the money to buy…
It’s a new year, and that means a new crop of iconic characters—some more than others—entering the public domain. According to Title 17 of the United States Code, once 95 years have passed since the creation of any “anonymous work, pseudonymous work, or work made for hire,” that work belongs to everyone. There’s something beautiful…
The new low-level API easily outperforms DX11 in Star Swarm benchmark The latest preview build of Windows 10 includes DirectX 12 and supports a new graphics driver model in the form of Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0. Lest you take the new graphic driver architecture lightly, know that this is the most significant WDDM…
A few months ago, we spoke with Hidetaka Miyazaki, director of legendary FromSoftware milestones like Dark Souls and Bloodborne, to learn what we could about their just-announced new project: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Now, Sekiro’s release date is almost here… but we still have questions. Activision’s Robert Conkey, producer on the title, was kind enough…
Grow Home is coming to PS4 on September 1st. Yay! Even better, you get to decide if it’s going to be free for all Playstation Plus members as we’re featured in the new “Vote to Play” campaign. We’d love your vote, and we’re excited to know what you think of it! Developing the game has…
April Fool’s Day is back again, offering a slate of jokes, gags, knee-slappers, and occasional bouts of confusion as those of us who have to wrangle this stuff are forced to expend way too much mental energy debating whether an announcement is real, or just not very funny. It’s rough out there, folks. Each year…
PC Gamer’s Mollie Taylor had some very nice things to say about the Starsand Island demo she played in December 2025, and fellow cozy-knower Lauren Morton shared even stronger feelings in February, declaring Starsand Island “the first can’t-miss cozy game of 2026.” Yet if you head over to Steam right now, you will miss it,…