Tag: games

Baldur’s Gate 3 modder adds legally distinct Poké Balls so you can ‘capture non-player characters inside a ball and free them later (or don’t)’

Baldur’s Gate 3 modder…

In a game packed with interesting items that can be used for all kinds of productive and/or sinister purposes,…
After Doom Eternal’s intense acrobatics, Doom: The Dark Ages will focus on simplified, ergonomic controls: ‘You shouldn’t be fighting the controls, you should be fighting the bad guys’

After Doom Eternal’s intense…

There are two key things to take away from Doom: The Dark Ages’ showing at today’s Xbox Developer Direct.…
Endless Legend 2, the sequel to Amplitude’s sublime 4X, is finally coming, and it’s fully leaning into the joy of exploration: ‘It is a feeling that will stick with you until the end’

Endless Legend 2, the…

It was only a couple of months ago that I bemoaned the fact that it had been a decade…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC requirements are here, and it sure seems like forced ray tracing is a normal thing now

Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC…

When I played six hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows at Ubisoft Quebec last week, I knew it would be…
‘I like making Doom games’: Doom: The Dark Ages won’t be the end, says director Hugo Martin

‘I like making Doom…

Doom has been with us for a long time. The original arrived in 1993—32 years ago, if you can…
This ambitious Half-Life 2 mod asks: what if Iron Lung had a submarine and an airship?

This ambitious Half-Life 2…

Like many people, I’m a big fan of quickfire submarine horror adventure Iron Lung. Yet despite receiving rave reviews…
Lords of the End Times’ greatest fantasy is letting us rewrite the most hated lore in Warhammer’s history

Lords of the End…

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South of Midnight, the Southern Gothic soulslike where folktales are real, is coming in April

South of Midnight, the…

South of Midnight, the new game coming from We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games, made an appearance at today’s…
The spiritual successor to classic JRPG Wild Arms has seemingly been cancelled, four years after its Kickstarter raised nearly $3 million

The spiritual successor to…

Armed Fantasia— which was a spiritual successor to the popular JRPG series Wild Arms and not a first-person shooter…
Mindwave is the story-driven spiritual successor to WarioWare that is so good I don’t care that I keep messing up on the supposedly simple final boss

Mindwave is the story-driven…

Thanks to a pretty stacked videogame release calendar, I haven’t had the opportunity to check out as many smaller…