Tag: games

It took me 25 hours to ‘finish’ puzzle strategy game Blue Prince—and 15 hours after that I’m still uncovering new mysteries

It took me 25…

The first time I stepped inside the mysterious mansion of adventure puzzle game Blue Prince—and I’m talking about the…
Control: Resonant serves up our first good look at its weird new outdoors world at Sony’s State of Play showcase

Control: Resonant serves up…

Control Resonant turned up at today’s State of Play showcase with a new gameplay trailer giving us our first…
Marvel Rivals is launching an ‘experimental feature’ to help players deal with the game’s awful performance and insatiable appetite for RAM

Marvel Rivals is launching…

The worst part of Marvel Rivals is its optimisation—loading in can take an age, and I’ve encountered my fair…

Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan…

Despite some big changes happening with Overwatch lately, former game director Jeff Kaplan hasn’t touched it since the year…
I want to love the new Castlevania, but it just feels a little off

I want to love…

I got off to a bit of an awkward start with Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse when it first booted to…
Legendary composer Frank Klepacki says the RTS genre isn’t dead, but he would like to see devs get a little more creative with it

Legendary composer Frank Klepacki…

Frank Klepacki has composed a lot of great game music over the years—in fact, he’s responsible for the soundtrack…
Creative Assembly is testing a second round of AI improvements for Total War: Warhammer 3: ‘We heard you loud and clear’

Creative Assembly is testing…

Changes to the campaign AI of Creative Assembly’s border-gore simulator Total War: Warhammer 3 were the focus of a…
More tariff chaos: Donald Trump pauses tariffs for most countries at the last minute but jacks them up to 125% against China, ‘effective immediately,’ because of their ‘lack of respect’

More tariff chaos: Donald…

The ongoing US tariff catastrophe that has made new PC hardware purchases (and a lot more) such an absolute…
Schedule 1 is the kind of instant Steam hit that was only ever going to come from a complete rando

Schedule 1 is the…

More than two weeks after launch, Schedule 1 is still the top-selling paid Steam game. That means that the…
One of the best-reviewed new games on Steam right now is about feeding raccoons and cryptids with the cosmic, Lynchian oven of your eerie woodland house

One of the best-reviewed…

Even in our era of accelerating electric woe, there’s a timeless comfort to be found in the simple act…