As usual, January is a fairly quiet month for new PC games and updates, with several of the most notable releases piled up near the end of the month. There’s still plenty to look forward to, including Cairn, the mountain climbing game whose release date was announced at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted in…
Have you met Valheim 1.0’s mountainous menace, the Gammeltroll? If you’ve made your way to Valheim’s final biome, the Deep North, you’ve probably seen and fought it already: the Gammeltroll is a 30-foot tall rock monster who pelts you with tree trunks from range and stomps you into paste if you get too close. Most…
Category: Games July 18, 2025 How Monument Valley 3 Uses Soundscapes to Tell Its Story Todd Baker, Audio Director, ustwo games Summary Learn how Monument Valley 3 transforms every interaction into a living soundscape for a fully immersive experience. Audio Director Todd Baker shares how the game’s music and sound design tell Noor’s emotional journey….
I recently spoke to a number of biometric authentication providers and experts to try and suss out the pros and cons of various ‘proof-of-human’, AKA ‘liveness detection’, technologies, AKA prove you’re flesh and bones and not an agentic AI. One thing I didn’t focus on too much in my piece exploring the tech, but which…
Beginning in November, we’re changing how cloud gaming is included with XBOX Game Pass. Game Pass plans will include a set number of cloud gaming hours each month: Game Pass Ultimate: 15 hours Game Pass Premium: 10 hours Game Pass Essential: 5 hours Today, eligible Game Pass subscribers can stream without these monthly hour limits….
I am a fickle mayor, it turns out. My first Cities: Skylines 2 town ended up in the bin after only a couple of hours—but I think for completely understandable reasons. It looked lumpier than my middle-aged arse. The way Colossal Order’s city-building sequel deals with terrain, and the way buildings interact with it, is…
For many gamers, retro titles are more than just old cartridges collecting dust on a shelf. They represent an era when creativity trumped graphics, and every pixel felt like part of something magical. These games, from 8-bit icons to arcade hits that defined pop culture, didn’t just entertain us; they built a legacy that continues…
The ‘Super Yanoman Collection’ arrives this December in Japan. Three Super Famicom titles are set to be rereleased on PC, PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on Thursday, December 10th, 2026, in Japan, as part of a new collection from the Japanese developer/publisher Edia (h/t: Gematsu). The Super Yanoman Collection was announced earlier today and will…
As if Monster Hunter Wilds wasn’t already threatening to devour every scrap of spare time we have for the first half of 2025, Capcom threw in another reason to spend hours and hours making our hunters look as cool as possible: Photo mode. It’s not exactly a huge surprise that Wilds has a buit-in photo…
Helldivers 2 has gone a little quiet since the end-of-year blowout that saw the game’s third enemy faction, The Illuminate, storm into the galactic war with their undemocratic mind control tricks and chicanery. The heroes kept a-diving and the fronts of the galactic war have kept a-shifting until yesterday: When all of a sudden the…