Tag: games

One of Treasure’s all-time-great beat ’em ups owes its inspiration to a PC sidescroller from a developer mostly known for schoolgirl fighting games

One of Treasure’s all-time-great…

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist '80s…
Library heists, bandit bribes, and multiple orgasms: how I became a happy king in medieval strategy sim Norland

Library heists, bandit bribes,…

Sometimes I wonder what kind of king I'd be, and every now and then a game comes along that…
Steam may be celebrating the railway experience with its Train Fest, but let’s remember how rubbish the typical train trip is with some Train Sim World DLC

Steam may be celebrating…

(Image credit: Dovetail Games) I’ve taken the train from Bath to London hundreds of times in my life, usually…
A classic Giger-inspired adventure game just got a sequel

A classic Giger-inspired adventure…

H. R. Giger’s biomechanical nightmares have inspired plenty of videogames. If we go way back, his work was repurposed…
Square Enix doesn’t do big Final Fantasy discounts often, but the exceptional XIII trilogy is less than half price for the next few days

Square Enix doesn’t do…

If, like me, you think Final Fantasy XIII is an elite-level FF series then I've got good news for…
Helldivers 2 CEO becomes a blue beam denialist as mystery snipers allegedly take potshots at the playerbase: ‘Blue beams aren’t real, they can’t hurt you’

Helldivers 2 CEO becomes…

If I had a penny for every time Helldivers 2 players allegedly ran into a new enemy type, only…
A crossover between Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft has leaked

A crossover between Dungeons…

This year’s Gen Con event is one Wizards of the Coast has said it’s “pulling out all the stops…
Cities: Skylines 2 will finally start getting modding support, alongside some performance fixes and its first wave of paid DLC

Cities: Skylines 2 will…

Cities: Skylines 2 has had a rocky launch, to say the least. Major performance problems and bugs have kicked…
Larian once again reminds us it’s ‘not involved in any BG3-related projects’ in response to Karlach comic reveal

Larian once again reminds…

Larian Studios has reiterated that it is fully, 100%, without a doubt, donezo in the bunzo when it comes…
Automate bases to explore and terraform a huge open world in Eden Crafters

Automate bases to explore…

Eden Crafters is a survival, crafting, and automation game set to release this year that puts you on a…