Fallout 76 has a lot to prove as it leaves Steam behind By Wes Fenlon Big leagues Standalone launchers can work, but Bethesda has to rival Steam on modding, network infrastructure, and more.
'Garbage town builder' Flotsam mixes survival and city building in new trailer By Austin Wood news Build a floating, cel-shaded city. Then use it to travel across the world.
Fallout 76 instructional film shows how to make friends and watch them die horribly By Christopher Livingston News There's no 'I' in nuclear wasteland.
SCUM, the survival game that tracks how many teeth you have, hits Early Access this month By Andy Chalk news Devolver's open-world multiplayer game features a ridiculously detailed character survival model. And zombies.
Preparing for Rend's apocalyptic PvP events is a lot more fun than fighting in them By Fraser Brown Spirit siege It's a promising competitive survival game, but Rend's combat is a mess.
Tito Belgrave's creepy characters make We Happy Few even eerier By Jody Macgregor Gallery Be seeing you.
Everything we know about Fallout 76 private servers By Omri Petitte On-Line It will have them, but we don't know exactly when.
Fallout 76 won't launch on Steam By Andy Chalk news "...both the B.E.T.A. and the launch, will be available only via Bethesda.net, not on Steam," a Bethesda rep said in an email.
Frostpunk's free 'People and Automatons' update lets you name your suffering citizens By Andy Chalk news Give your abject misery a personal touch.
How I pulled off the greatest escape from No Man's Sky's deadliest planet By Steven Messner The Martian My own stupidity got me stranded, but sheer dumb luck and determination saved my life.
Post-launch updates for We Happy Few detailed, including DLC By Jody Macgregor News There's a free sandbox mode coming too.
The Long Dark gets its third story episode this December By Shaun Prescott News Also, the fist two episodes are getting the "redux" treatment.
I ate my own dead body to stay alive in Early Access survival game The Wild Eight By Christopher Livingston food week As strategies go, dining on yourself isn't perfect but works in a pinch.
Why food may be the most powerful game design tool By Tyler Wilde Food Week How changing our relationships to food and survival can alter games and genres.
MoonQuest hits Early Access after seven years in development By Rick Lane news Creator explains protracted dev time in wry post-mortem.
New We Happy Few Trailer offers a confusing lesson in happiness By Rick Lane news Shows off new playable characters and more footage of mechanics.
60-player fantasy survival game Rend will launch on Early Access at the end of July By Andy Chalk news Rend is being created by former World of Warcraft developers.
Fallout 76 has fast travel, and players under level 5 can't die in PvP By Christopher Livingston News In an interview with multiplayer.it, Todd Howard confirms map shortcuts and PvP protections for low-level players.
I returned to DayZ after almost 4 years, but it feels like I never left By Christopher Livingston YearZ DayZ's development continues, but in a lot of ways it still feels like the same game—which is both good and bad.
