Tag: games

‘Everyone’s little monkey brains like shelter and food’: Subnautica 2 designer says primal instinct is the reason we’re so drawn to smashing blocks of wood into weapons

‘Everyone’s little monkey brains…

As someone who typically takes a rather unga bunga approach to videogames, I must admit I finally feel rather…
Today’s Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 11 (#1514)

Today’s Wordle clues, hints…

Our gently escalating supply of hints for today’s Wordle are designed to give you just enough to work on,…
‘You’ll now be at the mercy of what loot you can find’: Rust’s latest update brings back hardcore mode tougher than ever, removing the ability to craft guns entirely

‘You’ll now be at…

Rust has been playing with its parameters a lot lately (which mum once told me can make you go…
D&D is quintessentially American and Warhammer is quintessentially British

D&D is quintessentially American…

Every now and then one of my American friends will admit to me, with a slight sheepishness, that they…
Today’s Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 10 (#1513)

Today’s Wordle clues, hints…

It’d be a shame to lose your win streak on the weekend, so let us help make sure that…
The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty’s Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents

The Battlefield 6 beta…

First spotted by Battlefield Bulletin on Twitter, Battlefield 6’s open beta is doing spectacularly well on Steam: Around 500,000…
Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2

Steam has a sale…

If you’ve been searching for new games to try out, but don’t want to break the bank, you won’t…
‘Let’s just kill everyone on the station:’ The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid ‘awkward’ RPG dialogue trees

‘Let’s just kill everyone…

In a recent episode of Nightdive’s Deep Dive podcast, Looking Glass Studios programmer Marc LeBlanc shared his recollection of…
As the bots take over Verdansk, Warzone and Stalker are beginning to meld in my brain

As the bots take…

I’ve never met a ghost in the machine, but I remember every time an AI enemy surprised me by…
I finally played Duke Nukem Forever’s unfinished 2001 build, and while it probably would have been better than Gearbox’s fiasco, it still wouldn’t hold up today

I finally played Duke…

It’s one of the great ‘What ifs’ of PC gaming. What if Duke Nukem Forever had not stumbled onto…