Features archive

May 2025

Filter

Year
Month

105 articles

May 31
- You got Nightreigned: Elden Ring's spinoff is the most aggravating, player-hostile FromSoft game I've played, but I keep staying up past 3 AM for 'one more run'
May 30
- FromSoftware's clunky UI and coy descriptions are keeping me from truly loving Elden Ring Nightreign
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for a top-notch laptop cooling system
- A graphical history of id Tech: Three decades of cutting-edge graphics and game engine technologies
- Elden Ring Nightreign's best feature is its extra mobility—but it's not even that good, and Sekiro does it better
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t invent Final Frenchtasy or the J'RPG: the newly dubbed subgenre has a long and complicated history
May 29
- Manor Lords meets Total War in web3 strategy game BLOCKLORDS
- 'According to Steam, I have around 10,000 hours logged,' says the modder who's spent a decade turning GTA 5 into a photo realistic wonderland
- Deltarune: Everything we know about Toby Fox's next adventure
- Final Fantasy 14's Occult Crescent makes the game feel like an MMO again
- The RX 9070 XT might not be the truly mid-range graphics card I'm still dreaming of but it turned my latest sci-fi PC build into a frame rate menace
- Elden Ring Nightreign launch times and release date
May 28
- Computex 2025 showed that innovation in PC hardware often involves sticking a screen on something but don't let that distract you from the genuine improvements underneath
- Elden Ring Nightreign PC performance analysis: A bare-bones console port with glitches a-plenty
May 27
- Sorry, nightfarers: Elden Ring Nightreign does not have crossplay
- Persona 5: The Phantom X is a solid RPG, but even adding gacha can't hide the fact that Persona 5's been stretched awfully thin over the last 9 years
- Computex 2025 made me realise I have no time for extravagant PC parts, just give me a simple, solid design and function
May 26
- The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce
- Parries and timed blocks are the future of action games—and they've got a place in turn-based RPGs like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, too
- Oblivion Remastered is great and all, but Morrowind remains the Bethesda RPG that I could play forever
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 26, 2025)
May 24
- Great moments in PC gaming: Getting so badly stuck on an adventure game puzzle I called the developer for a hint
- One of the worst games of all time got a Steam release, but is it even that bad compared to our current hell of asset-flips and Steam shovelware?
May 23
- Stop messing with team deathmatch
- Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry's one and only cowboy poet
- Nubby's Number Factory is like Balatro if it were a plinko roguelike and instead of Jokers had items like Squirmy, Pedro, and A Ton of Feathers
- Computex has made me finally care about PC cases and it's not just because of rig envy
- I've swapped Windows for the latest SteamOS build on my Legion Go S and I'm not going back
- Bugtopia is my next insect idle game obsession and I promise I'm not mad about the grind at the beginning which makes you sell your own bugs
- Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game
May 22
- MindsEye: All the key details on the new action game from one of the minds behind Grand Theft Auto
- The next Warhammer 40K RPG from Rogue Trader's devs sounds killer: An Imperial inquisitor detective RPG where you can intimidate your enemies until they're 'scared as f**k' and surrender
- Celebrating 10 years of posting that one image of Geralt in a bathtub
- Mafia: The Old Country: all the key details on the gritty gangster prequel
- World of Warcraft game director details which combat add-ons are safe and which will be eliminated in the coming purge
May 21
- A delayed review, a GOTY controversy, and a Big Geralt: Our strange 10-year relationship with The Witcher 3
- The Witcher 3's development took CDPR from 'How do we escape annihilation?' to having Sony on speed-dial
- Live service games are 'innovating' all the way back around to what worked 20 years ago, except way worse
- Logitech G522 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Headset: gaming just got louder
- Marvel Rivals' new Chrono Shield Cards item has divided players and reminded me that some people should just stay in Bronze
May 20
- The original Polish Witcher comics are available in English if you can get past the way Geralt's fringe looks like the mustache of a cartoon walrus who is also a circus ringleader
- Which version of Nicolas Cage will we get in the Madden movie? Boy, I hope it's the unhinged one
- The 14 most underappreciated games of the last year that you shouldn't have ignored
- In my first hour with Helldivers 2's new city maps, I've caused millions in property damage, been to several Illuminate raves, and committed treason in the fog of war
- On The Witcher 3's 10th birthday, join us in celebrating one of the most enduringly brilliant open world RPGs ever made
- Raidou Remastered is more of a remake, with a hugely overhauled combat system and no more random encounters
May 19
- This hardcore driving sim about rebuilding towns after natural disasters is, surprisingly, a super-chill hangout game for up to 4 friends
- Remembering The Witcher 3's toughest choices (and the objectively correct answers)
- Why we're still playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10 years later
- As the follow-up to one of the greatest city builders, Anno 117: Pax Romana has a big toga to fill, and I think it might deliver the goods
- Here's how US tariffs have affected PC gaming hardware, from paused shipments to new investments
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 19, 2025)
May 17
- If the original Grand Theft Auto came out today, we’d call it a roguelike
May 16
- You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for the Wicked's latest saga
- I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick
May 15
- The king of Elder Scrolls meme videos wishes Bethesda still made NPCs like Oblivion's: 'I am a big fan of the Radiant AI system and honestly a bit sad to see how much it was toned down'
- With hardware prices in cloud cuckoo land, now's the time to love the rig you're with. And here's how to make that PC love last
- Kingdom Come 2's first expansion feels like the base game's best parts distilled, but don't expect a game-changer
May 14
- These 5 upcoming roguelike deckbuilders caught my eye because they have big twists on the usual formula
- Oblivion Remastered has reminded me how lucky we are to have an independent Elder Scrolls wiki in the hallowed UESP
- Helldivers 2 has still got it
- Co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is so deadly that even the objectives are trying to kill you
- I don't want a Morrowind remaster, I want Bethesda to write a fat cheque for the OpenMW team
- I was starting to get bored of decorating in cozy games, but the demo of Twinkleby has reminded me that nothing needs to be picture perfect as long as you're having fun
- A classic RPG series returns with a new twist
May 13
- Doom: The Dark Ages feels like a console game first and PC game second
- Even 19 years later, Oblivion's Whodunit quest is RPG chaos at its best
- I don't care what you say, there's still no place in my life for modular hardware to slot into
May 12
- I wish Ubisoft had ever made the game it promised with Assassin's Creed 1, but instead the series just spiralled into a weird identity crisis
- Even in early access, Blacksmith Master is a well forged ingot of cozy management and metalwork
- Doom: The Dark Ages is unplayable on handheld gaming PCs at the moment but it's not because the hardware isn't good enough
- Doom: The Dark Ages launch times, release date, and advanced access period
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 12, 2025)
May 11
- This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
- 14 years later, the best way to play Dark Souls is with the new Seamless co-op mod
May 9
- How World of Warcraft's add-on changes will affect the most popular mods
- Death Stranding 2 sounds like everything I hoped it'd be
- Publisher who resurrected lost pirate game Captain Blood says it's 'a 3 or 4' by today's standards, but that's half the fun: 'All its charms, all its flaws, all the vibes are from that era'
- Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine
May 8
- Bodega cats, trash pandas, and a great white shark: the real stars of the GTA 6 reveal are all the animals hiding in plain sight
- I couldn't have played Clair Obscur without its accessibility settings, and now it might be my GOTY
- How do you get fresh blood in a 22-year-old, infamously impenetrable MMO? EVE Online hopes it's a 'player-created gig economy' that has veterans making missions for newbies: 'We're 100% sure that you will do a better job'
- Europa Universalis 5 feels like the ultimate grand strategy game, drawing on Paradox's entire history—and it makes me feel like an idiot
- With the GPU market a hellscape right now, here are the PC gaming upgrades you actually CAN do
- Synergy's full release has more challenges like tricky soil, illness, and death, which will all slowly tear down your paradise
- Calling all cozy mystery fans: the follow-up to 2022's best puzzle game gives you even more ways to play detective
May 7
- The latest GTA 6 trailer confirmed its most exciting feature: A bunch of logos for pretend companies
- I pride myself on keeping up with Steam's under-the-radar gems, but April was packed with enough new games to keep me busy for the rest of 2025
- GPUs and monitors from MSI: Collaborate to dominate at 4K and 240Hz
- Grand Theft Auto 6 dropped a whopping 84 brand-new screenshots and illustrations, and here's every single one
May 6
- I really don't want to cosplay as Darth Vader in Destiny 2, so I'm even more queasy about the announcement of a whole Star Wars-themed expansion
- The GTA 6 trailer shows Jason and Lucia working out: is Rockstar bringing back some of San Andreas' RPG-lite features?
- I'm already totally enamored with Grand Theft Auto 6's Jason and Lucia, and I've had them for less than 5 minutes
- GTA 6's preposterously gorgeous second trailer has me thinking 'no-one does it like Rockstar' isn't just a compliment, but an omen
May 5
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 5, 2025)
May 3
- Valve only wants to make new Half-Life games if they push the medium forward, but what could it push forward next?
May 2
- Grand Theft Auto 6's delay makes me think we won't be playing this thing on PC until 2027, or god forbid even 2028
- I feel like I can finally say we're at a point where buying new PC gaming gear doesn't mean settling for less
- If you HAVE to upgrade your GPU today, these are the five graphics cards I think are worth looking at
- Oblivion's one-room waterfront shack is the perfect player home
- The best Oblivion Remastered mods
May 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
- Oblivion is a lot better now that I can read
- Borderlands 4 looks like more of the same yet again—and in 2025, that's not enough
- WoW's idea to clamp down on combat add-ons is misguided, especially since it could keep improving its base experience without, uh, doing that