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May 2024

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May 31
- Soup up your tiny car so much you can launch it into space in this weird little open world driving game
- Cozy Caravan mixes crafting, cute critters, and simple quests for the ultimate relaxing game
- Soulmask is a survival sandbox where you run a jungle tribe
May 30
- If you're starting a fresh run in Elden Ring before the expansion, I can't recommend the Seamless Co-op mod highly enough
- The best thing about this retro fantasy RPG is that I keep forgetting it's actually Lovecraftian horror
- Today's GPUs are supremely capable and graphics in the latest games are utterly spectacular, so why do I not get the same wow factor that I got 26 years ago?
- 'It's not the most glamourous setting': Still Wakes the Deep's developers discuss why the oil rig setting works so well
- Still Wakes the Deep gets the fundamentals of horror just right while also having an incredible location and grisly action
May 29
- Graph paper mapping my way through a 37-year-old RPG reminded me how rarely I give games 100% of my attention, and how much more fun I have when I do
- Elden Ring co-op guide: with Seamless Co-op mod and without
May 28
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape's wild new reality-bending Strike mission is full of lava, lost cities and dragon guts
- City 20 is a survival sandbox with Stalker vibes that turned me into an apple-addicted serial killer, but it's not as fun as it sounds
- In Frostpunk 2's post-post-apocalypse 'it's not nature that's your worst enemy, it's human nature,' and nothing proves that like my doomed attempt at turbo-communism
- Do you need esports peripherals? Unless you have the reaction times of a gnat or money to burn, nope
- New Multiplayer sneakfest Sneak Out has a host of dirty tricks for Hunters to use
- I thought Pine Hearts would be another heartwarming adventure, but it's actually one of the only games to reduce me to tears
May 26
- Great moments in PC gaming: That time Valve released three new games on the same day
May 24
- I took my alternate-universe self on a pierogi date in the Subnautica-style survival game from This War of Mine's creators, and now I can't wait to see more
May 23
- I've got no interest in playing Valve's rumored Deadlock game, but I'll definitely be here for all the funny 'Meet the Team' movies they'll probably make about the characters
- Synergy's solarpunk aesthetic and harsh resource management makes it one stellar city builder
- I didn't have high hopes for the MultiVersus relaunch but brand-new PvE missions and a silly banana guy with a spear are changing my mind
- Behind its identikit theme and terrible name, XDefiant is the perfect antidote to those tired of Call of Duty’s modern-day bloat
May 21
- You're going to hear a lot of release dates this summer, and should probably just ignore them all
- Computex 2024 preview: What we expect to see at this year's show, from AI PCs to next-generation chips from Intel, AMD and more
- The tail end of May sees multiple Day One games hitting PC Game Pass: Here are our picks
- The hunt for the perfect grinding spots in Mists of Pandaria: Remix show us just how incompatible the event's silly fun is with WoW's grindset culture
- Ghost of Tsushima PC performance analysis: Your CPU will be fine, your GPU will whine, but there are settings for every gamer out there
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 exposes an uncomfortable truth about upscalers—it's all about what sort of compromises you're prepared to make to image quality
May 20
- Top-down puzzle adventure Paper Trail is the kind of page-turner you can only get in games
- Capes is a superhero game about the legacy its heroes inherit, but also the legacy of turn-based tactics as a genre
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 20, 2024)
May 17
- If you hire me to train your dog I'll get soap in its eyes, pat it with a severed hand, and teach it to disembowel your enemies
- MSI's new QD-OLED gaming monitors are a feast for the eyes
- World of Warcraft is enjoying a golden age and we've never had it so good
- Hades 2's creative director says, 'We expect to be in early access at least through the end of this year'
May 16
- I tried the GameScent so you don't have to and, trust me, you don't want to
- Google looks intent on breaking the business of the internet, and AI won't fix it
- The Venture to the Vile demo feels like the metroidvania equivalent of Pandora's box, and even though I've only cracked the surface I already can't get enough
- I love that Jake Solomon is following his life sim passions, but just give me a minute to mourn XCOM
- Cinematic superhero tactics game Capes is coming May 29
May 15
- A medievalist's take on Manor Lords: 'It represents medieval peasants and their lives more fully than most games'
- AI is listening: Omnipresent robo-moderators are the latest online anti-toxicity strategy
May 14
- Diablo 4 is finally the phenomenal action RPG I wanted it to be
- Haunted Chocolatier characters: everyone we know about so far
- V Rising's teleporting castles are an ingenious solve for one of my biggest survival crafting bugbears
- XCOM designer Jake Solomon is done with turn-based strategy and is now making a life sim inspired by small town dramas like Gilmore Girls
- My penchant for yapping keeps getting me into trouble when the words I type could accidentally kill me
- You should absolutely play the Homeworld Remastered Collection before jumping into Homeworld 3
- Helldivers 2 is a fantastic game—but something has to change, because it'll only get harder to balance, maintain, and fix while Arrowhead burns the candle at both ends
- Land of dragons and jank: I took a trip to Wales in the metaverse
May 13
- The coolest tabletop RPGs based on videogames, from Fallout to Dragon Age
- The best thing about Homeworld 3 is how well it runs on a PC with its 6-year-old recommended specs
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 13, 2024)
May 10
- Cyberpunk 2077's quest lead says it's a story 'about terminal illness,' and playing it while staring down the barrel of one was the most intense RPG experience I've ever had
- Homeworld 3 performance analysis: Surprisingly scalable but no ultra-high frame rates
- AMD's gaming graphics business looks like it's in terminal decline
- Despite being just a humble CPU socket, AMD 'boldly suggests' AM4 has 'legendary status'
- Beta teething issues aside, Discord's Roll20 activity for running D&D and other RPGs inside the app works great
- 10 things I wish I knew before playing Animal Well
May 9
- If you're struggling with Hades 2's small changes, don't worry—they'll click
- Every gaming showcase scheduled for summer 2024
- Keycap delivery! This limited edition keycap set from Glorious has turned my clean-cut keyboard into crude doodles and I'm surprisingly here for it
- Multiplayer party game Sneak Out is like Among Us meets Pummel Party
May 8
- ARM-based processors are coming for traditional PC gaming so we've tested Apple's ARM-y MacBook silicon to see how well it plays games in 2024
- Hades 2's forget-me-not mechanic is so good that I think any game with a billion resources should be taking notes
May 7
- Steam review bombing is gaming's most powerful method of protest: 3 takeaways from Helldivers 2's weekend meltdown
- It's been an incredible few weeks for game companies making avoidable mistakes they immediately back down from
- The best Hades 2 weapons and how to unlock them
May 6
- Hades 2 is absolutely worth playing in early access right now
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 6, 2024)
May 5
- Love Sucks: Night Two is a horny game where the real fantasy isn't sex, it's enjoying a carnival without almost immediately getting tired and wanting to go home
May 4
- Seekers of Skyveil convinced me the extraction genre isn't just for shooters anymore
May 3
- I fell in love with Abiotic Factor the minute I strapped a couch cushion to my chest and called it armor—there's no other survival game like it
- Point-and-click horror Tales from Candleforth is the escape room equivalent of your childhood nightmares
- The first official AI PCs are just about to land but they're not what you're expecting
May 2
- Bethesda should just say 'screw it', move on from Starfield, and put all that energy into Fallout
- The Forever Winter is a looter shooter set amid a dynamic war between building-sized mechs, where firing your gun could be the biggest mistake you make
- Gray Zone Warfare delivers the odd hitch and stutter, but overall it's a reasonable Early Access ride
May 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
- Foundry is a very calm, pleasant building game I'd play if I got tired of several other ones
- Freakishly large graphics cards and super-hot SSDs mean the fundamentals of PC design needs a big change
- It's a shame Gray Zone Warfare is a performance nightmare, because it fixes so many problems I have with Escape From Tarkov