Tag: games

Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now

Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has…

I thought Timberborn’s early access journey was more or less done and (saw)dusted when I last checked in on…
Larian says it’s going to expand the Baldur’s Gate 3 mod toolkit ‘to give you even more freedom,’ so there goes another 100 hours I’ve lost to modding

Larian says it’s going…

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 marked the last of Larian’s major updates, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get…
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting an expansion that introduces the series’ first ever new class, and it’s a dwarf driving a weaponised bulldozer that flattens terrain and enemies alike

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor…

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is comfortably the best autoshooter to emerge off the back of Vampire Survivors‘ success. Far…
System Shock 2’s alien ‘sphincter doors’ were made with photos from a dev’s colonoscopy

System Shock 2’s alien…

In the latest episode of Nightdive Studios’ Deep Dive podcast, System Shock 2 artist and industry veteran Nate Wells…
How to access the Battlefield 6 open beta, how to preload, and when it starts

How to access the…

The Battlefield 6 open beta is imminent, and for the most part, it really is an open beta. EA…
The first thing Arc Raiders’ devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: ‘All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise’

The first thing Arc…

Arc Raiders looked very different in its early stages of development, and even compared to its initial reveal trailer.…
The ‘Compiling Shaders’ screen is the worst screen in gaming: here’s how to make it suck less

The ‘Compiling Shaders’ screen…

I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that…
Arc Raiders’ old machine designs sound so diabolical, it’s no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: ‘At that time, they didn’t fit with the game very well’

Arc Raiders’ old machine…

I don’t think anyone had it on their bingo cards that Arc Raiders‘ machine design and AI would be…
McFarlane is making the Fallout: New Vegas NCR Ranger figure I wish I had 15 years ago

McFarlane is making the…

McFarlane Toys’ upcoming addition to its line of Fallout action figures is an absolute whopper, a doozy, “The Big…
You’ve got a narrow window to nab OpenTTD on Steam for free, because Transport Tycoon Deluxe has just been un-abandonwared by Atari

You’ve got a narrow…

The figure of the tycoon is tarnished these days. All the people who are killing the planet lay claim…