Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today
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Destiny 2's latest trailer gives us a preview of the Pale Heart of the Traveler, the new destination arriving with The Final Shape expansion this June.
Command & Conquer accounted for 11 of the top 20 top selling games in Europe this March. So why is the classic RTS series making such a splash?
Warhorse Studios has revealed the sequel to its 2018 medieval RPG. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will offer a grander scope and a bigger world than its predecessor—around twice as large as the original game, and split across two major areas. The announcement trailer shows this new RPG in action.
Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world in his quest to find the true meaning of 'home'.
A study published in the academic journal Plos One has found that some people can perceive higher speed frames per second than others. But how did they test it and what might that mean?
Be the tank of your team with the Mesh Shield, or go full Hulk with the Charge 'n' Smash. These are the best Heavy class builds for The Finals.
the Medium class is the most flexible of The Finals' roster, and is the best choice for anyone who wants to do a little bit of everything, or primarily play as a healer. Here are the Season 2 builds we recommend.
In this episode of Chat Log, Mollie, Lauren and Fraser gather to discuss dragons, pawns and performance in Dragon's Dogma 2.
Fancy yourself as a sneaky player who prefers to deal a lot of damage instead of supporting your team? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Here are our favourite Light class builds in The Finals Season 2.
A magnificent adventure with impressive fights and some very rough edges. Here's our review of Capcom's RPG sequel Dragon's Dogma 2.
After an unexpected delay last year, post-apocalyptic RPG Broken Roads is now set to launch on April 10.
Cool Game Alert spotlights the most interesting PC games around, celebrating weird, quirky and underappreciated gems that we think you should play. Home Safety Hotline envisions a world where working in a call center is still terrifying, but in a much more interesting way
In 2005, unlike today, thoughts of Pandemics were far from most people's minds. But at this time World of Warcraft was almost brought to it's knees as the contaminated Blood Plague pandemic swept through server after server. The plague spread with alarming speed across all corners of the World... of Warcraft, eventually infecting over 4 million players. What was most intriguing were the actions of individuals in the game as the plague spread. There were those who turned martyr, risking their own health to save others while there were some who deliberately tried to spread the infection far and wide.
Cool Game Alert spotlights the most interesting PC games around, celebrating weird, quirky and underappreciated gems that we think you should play. Go Mecha Ball captures the soul of arcades. A cacophony of flashing lights, muffled, mesmerizing sound and action you intuit more than plan.
The Thaumaturge is a story-driven RPG with morally ambiguous choices, taking place in the culturally diverse world of early 20th century Warsaw. In this world, salutors exist: esoteric beings that only thaumaturges can truly perceive and use for their needs.
Cool Game Alert spotlights the most interesting PC games around, celebrating weird, quirky and underappreciated gems that we think you should play. Here's the follow-up to Void Bastards, a space-Western that combines FPS combat and turn-based strategy.
On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren talk with Harvey Randall about one of the most divisive topics: categorizing games. Sure, things are easy when we're just talking RPGs—unless it's ARPGs versus action RPGs. Don't even get us started on cRPGs. What about the Metroidvanias and the Roguelikes—and are Soulslikes a real genre too?
Cool Game Alert spotlights the most interesting PC games around, celebrating weird, quirky and underappreciated gems that we think you should play. Here's Raw Metal, a game that mixed in a little bit of Metal Gear with a lot of OSHA violations.
Here's the brand new trailer for Elden Ring's long awaited expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree, which will release on June 21.
Sprint through procedural, crumbling fantasy worlds, outrunning the apocalypse behind you. Cool Game Alert spotlights the most interesting PC games around, celebrating weird, quirky and underappreciated gems that we think you should play.
A tale of friendship, betrayal and an extraordinary EVE Online Scam... Have you ever thought someone was a friend, only to find out they've been lying to you the whole time? EVE Online is well known for the scams carried out by players in-game, but one unfortunate EVE Online user 'Tikktokk' fell victim to a much more personal scam. He faced not only the loss of a friendship, but the loss of his prized 120B ISK Chremoas that had over 400 kill marks
Peripeteia is indie gaming at its most raw—wild ambition on a shoestring budget. Cool Game Alert spotlights the most interesting PC games around, celebrating weird, quirky and underappreciated gems that we think you should play.
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