Tag: games

Avowed succeeds where Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed: An actionized, beginner-friendly entry point to a long-running series that doesn’t sacrifice its identity

Avowed succeeds where Dragon…

I am one of Pillars of Eternity’s strongest soldiers here at PC Gamer, a Sardaukar of Cipher builds, a…
‘A hellish nightmare’: Remembering the most famous Civilization game ever played, Civ 2’s ‘Eternal War’

‘A hellish nightmare’: Remembering…

When the Modern Age ends in Civilization 7, the game’s over, but it hasn’t always been that way. In…
Dev recalls working with David Bowie on Omikron, and the artist’s madcap scheme to buy up a load of old satellites and ‘relaunch Ziggy Stardust from space’

Dev recalls working with…

Music publication Mojo has a new retrospective on Omikron: The Nomad Soul, the 1999 game that marked Davd Cage’s…
Fishing minigames are the worst and I’m not afraid to say it

Fishing minigames are the…

Finishing minigames are the worst minigames and I’ve waited too long to say it. Maybe I’ve regressed into an…
We can now pinpoint the exact year videogames turned from God’s light thanks to the discovery of a ‘nude code’ for Smurfette in 1984

We can now pinpoint…

I was a videogame-obsessed teenager in the 1990s and it seemed like every single gaming magazine (and several of…
Presumably much to Miyazaki’s dismay, Elden Ring Nightreign is decidedly void of poison swamps: ‘Maybe no one wanted to include it’

Presumably much to Miyazaki’s…

As we know all too well at this point, Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki freaking loves a poison swamp.…
Nightdive’s spent 6 years on its update of System Shock 2, so it’s now the ’25th Anniversary Remaster’ and will finally announce its release date on March 20

Nightdive’s spent 6 years…

Being, as I am, a fashionable man with his finger on the pulse, interested in only the latest and…
You can nab Owlcat’s first Pathfinder CRPG for $45 or $4 right now, depending on whether you want a library’s worth of TTRPG books too

You can nab Owlcat’s…

Good news for fans of amassing huge numbers of PDFs they’ll never read on an external hard drive (me):…
Anyone who raises an eyebrow at paying $85 for a Deep Rock Galactic mug must know they are ‘the most complicated mug made industrially on Earth’

Anyone who raises an…

A new Kickstarter collaboration for Deep Rock Galactic has been launched, and it’s for “high quality mugs.” You won’t…
Overwatch 2 players are hoping that the upcoming perks will dissuade the heinous act of counterswapping

Overwatch 2 players are…

As part of Overwatch 2’s big rework, every hero will be getting a set of perks—unlockable upgrades that can…