Tag: games

One coder’s ‘winter madness project’ was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers

One coder’s ‘winter madness…

Do you ever wonder if Crazy Taxi is just a little too crazy? Wouldn’t it be nice to explore…
Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out ‘a bit meaner than expected’ in hindsight: ‘To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users’

Slay the Spire 2…

Comedy tends to land better when you punch up rather than punch down—but what about when, as you begin…
The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws

The sci-fi survival game…

I haven’t checked in on Icarus, the sci-fi survival game from DayZ creator Dean Hall, for quite a long…
This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat ’em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update

This bizarre CRPG features…

We’re in a golden era for the CRPG. Disco Elysium set a new standard for narrative driven roleplaying in…
Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason

Human Fall Flat, which…

Cooperative physics-platformer Human Fall Flat is one of my favourite back-burner games, something I check in on once every…
Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero’s 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week

Before Doom, there was…

There is an almost fractal quality to the history of id Software, in that the closer you look at…
Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 30

Today’s Wordle answer for…

However you want to win your daily Wordle, we’ve got all the help you need to make it happen.…
Mavrix is a promising sim about riding pushbikes down dangerously steep hills, but it shows the limits of open world design

Mavrix is a promising…

Mavrix by Matt Jones is an early access mountain biking game with a 100-square-kilometre open world. It shares a…
Bungie continues to fire into its feet with both barrels: A new armor set in Destiny 2 has just been disabled because it makes the player who wears it completely invisible

Bungie continues to fire…

It’s been years since I played Destiny 2, and the game has changed dramatically since then. But some things…
Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight’s otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you ‘minimize leftovers’ even though Blizzard said it wouldn’t

Ah yikes, World of…

I want to say something at the top of this—I still think World of Warcraft: Midnight’s player housing system…