Tag: games

The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least

The original Dawn of…

I’m no RTS expert, but I’m nonetheless ride or die for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. I’ve poured what…
Constance is a metroidvania that wants its monsters to mean something

Constance is a metroidvania…

Constance’s store page on Steam insists its titular heroine, the one with a flappy cloak, slender weapon, and impeccable…
The League of Legends trading card game is surprisingly good, because it embraces the best trends in card games

The League of Legends…

Trading Card Games are in an odd place. They’re probably more popular than ever, with more playing them than…
Why I love Injustice 2’s story mode

Why I love Injustice…

Who would win in a fight? Comics writers know this is what fans argue about, endlessly, and feed those…
Mod fixes 17-year-old lip-sync bug in Fallout 3 and New Vegas

Mod fixes 17-year-old lip-sync…

Nexus Mods is currently hosting a Fallout modding marathon timed to coincide with the second season of the TV…
We owe Skyrim’s beloved Stealth Archer to one of the designers of an all-time classic PC stealth game, who wrote Todd Howard ‘a big document of stealth in 20 different games’

We owe Skyrim’s beloved…

I love stealth games, and I love playing a sneaky guy in bigger RPGs: Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Cyberpunk,…
A ‘small update’ just shook up Deadlock’s basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero

A ‘small update’ just…

Deadlock‘s not-so-secret invite-only beta has been a blast if you don’t mind your favorite MOBA getting fundamentally altered every…
GTA 5’s character-swapping system was a stroke of genius that was supposed to feature in San Andreas 9 years earlier—this masterclass mod makes that dream a reality

GTA 5’s character-swapping system…

As I flitted between Peter Parker and Miles Morales boroughs-apart in Spider-Man 2’s New York City, I thought: why…
Skyrim’s hardest quest is raising my Fat Idiot Son

Skyrim’s hardest quest is…

When my 11 year old son took a guard’s arrow to the dome, it occurred to me I had…
A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop’s toe created a ‘time-travelling’ bug that softlocked all versions of the game

A former Valve dev…

One of the coolest things about Half-Life 2 is its physics engine, but as anyone who has played a…