Tag: Action

This roguelike take on Geometry Wars is the best game I’ve played this month, and the latest to become a permanent fixture on my Steam Deck

This roguelike take on…

November has been an absolutely huge month for games, between AAA staples like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7,…
Fatshark celebrates 10 years of rat-bashing by adding one of Vermintide’s ‘most popular’ maps into Vermintide 2, but ‘things are not as before’

Fatshark celebrates 10 years…

Warhammer—End Times: Vermintide celebrated its tenth birthday in October, a fact that makes me painfully aware of how much…
Helldivers 2 had an extremely rough launch, but it’s already in much better shape

Helldivers 2 had an…

It doesn't get much worse for a multiplayer launch: broken matchmaking, frequent crashes, and a kernel-level anti-cheat system that…
Mafia: The Old Country’s Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one

Mafia: The Old Country’s…

While the Mafia series has always been more about telling a linear story than letting players explore fully-realised open…
So far, Skull and Bones has just made me want to play Sea of Thieves again

So far, Skull and…

Skull and Bones is finally coming out this month (or so we're told), and this week's open beta is…
Diablo 4’s forgettable XP boost event has me crossing my fingers that its upcoming leaderboards won’t be as dull

Diablo 4’s forgettable XP…

Diablo 4's Lunar New Year event doesn't feel like an event at all. The promised cosmetic rewards take about…
GTA Online mimics reality by nerfing payouts after making everything cost more: ‘Prices go up, paychecks go down’

GTA Online mimics reality…

Making money in GTA Online has basically always been a game of whack-a-mole, with players finding the latest and…
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is like playing classic ‘Vania on fast forward, with a whip to die for

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is…

Aaand relax. Having fought the first three bosses, slain a familiar parade of public domain monsters, and enjoyed many…
Constance is a metroidvania that wants its monsters to mean something

Constance is a metroidvania…

Constance’s store page on Steam insists its titular heroine, the one with a flappy cloak, slender weapon, and impeccable…
GTA 5’s character-swapping system was a stroke of genius that was supposed to feature in San Andreas 9 years earlier—this masterclass mod makes that dream a reality

GTA 5’s character-swapping system…

As I flitted between Peter Parker and Miles Morales boroughs-apart in Spider-Man 2’s New York City, I thought: why…