Peak's latest beta patch ensures the cooperative climbing sim actually checks players are alive when they reach the summit of its mountain: 'You no longer win if you die'

Peak’s latest beta patch ensures the cooperative climbing sim actually checks players are alive when they reach the summit of its mountain: ‘You no longer win if you die’

Cooperative climbing sensation Peak just dragged a new update to the false summit of its Steam beta branch, adding a couple of new items to the game and making some small but important quality of life changes. But we’re going to hike past all of that for the moment, and make a beeline straight for…

Read More

Arc Raiders seems set for a meteor-impact-sized launch as its weekend playtest becomes Steam’s 89th most-popular game by concurrent players

It was the Arc Raiders Server Slam over the weekend, but you probably already know that. Why? Because a frankly alarming number of people poured in to slam those servers, so odds are decent you’re one of them. With the full version of Embark Studios’ extraction shooter due out on October 30, its server test…

Read More

I’ve been obsessed with a single dialogue choice in an underappreciated Obsidian game for 10 years, so I tracked down the guy who wrote it to learn everything about my favorite joke in RPG history

For ten years, I’ve been obsessed with a single dialogue choice (really a collection of choices) at the beginning of Pillars of Eternity’s first expansion, The White March: Part One. Once you’ve finished beating back an ogre attack on the town of Stalwart, you’re free to poke around, meet the residents, accept side quests, all…

Read More