Imagine pressing a button in the graphics options and watching your framerate double. We’d have been able to play it. The thing is, it wasn’t that bad. The pioneering shooter might actually have been playable, with AI’s help. Trying to gain the upper

We review each game on its own merits, and try to match it to a reviewer who’s a passionate expert in the field. The main aim of reviews is to help you make buying decisions. To this end, we’re selective about what we review, and try to focus on the

This month Visited a haunted moon with a couple of buds. Got torn apart by space bees. Plus ça change. This month Watched video clips of Studio Ghibli food scenes on loop. Missed many, many deadlines. This month Set up an underground fight club for P

Before WASD and mouseaiming became the norm, there were all sorts of crazy control schemes for first-person games, and in that light Neural Parasite’s isn’t too bizarre. You move with your feet – by which I mean you click on a pair of on-screen feet,

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1 Pirates should keep their piece, pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service. 2 Pirates should not game at cards or dice for money. 3 Pirates can only continue to drink after 8pm if on the open deck of their ship. 4 Pirates who desert their ship

Jagex staff were briefly baffled when they woke up to find their Twitter (X) account straight-up banned. Turns out, Twitter’s automated systems thought the account (which has over 300,000 followers) was in fact made by an eight-year-old child back in

This exchange happens every time you make a new social bond. “Thou” is a subject, not an object. This should be either “I am thee,” or in archaic English, “I am you”. “Thou art” is perfect. But again, “I” is not an object, even in medieval times. Thi

Larian won big at the DICE Awards, and used its speech to speak out against layoffs. Steam has launched a ‘Mark as Private’ function, letting you hide your more, ahem, delicate games. NASA has released a tabletop game that asks: what if a dragon stol

1 The trailer opens with a shot of a withered arm dangling from a cracked, round egg. This is Miquella’s cocoon. Found in Mohgwyn palace deep beneath Caelid, it’s through this cocoon players will access the Land of Shadow. 2 This area with the graves

A brute-force earth scorcher from above, useful for taking out buildings as well as hostiles. Can also be used to coat an area in smoke or toxic gas. A jet fighter is always ready to perform a deadly fly-by, hammering the ground with bullets or bombs

Banishers imagines a world where the restless dead are a common occurrence, be they wisps, giant monsters or chatty ghosts bearing unfinished business. Much as you’d call a plumber to fix a leaky pipe, here you send for a Banisher to remove a trouble

SpellRogue is a roguelike that makes you feel like a genius. As you pick up spells you’ll start to create combinations that just feel too powerful and would surely have been nerfed if the developer had noticed. Then, after a while, you’ll realise thi

Featuring a difficulty cliff rather than a curve, the Souls series is about learning from mistakes. Short levels mean losing little progress, and success is an adrenaline rush. You can choose your difficulty, but there’s also an adaptive element affe

One of the longest-running types of station wagon available in the USA, the Buick Estate was first introduced in 1940, with a model then brought to market in almost every year up until 1996. Multiple members of Pacific Drive’s development team experi

The appeal of Skull and Bones is laser focused. It’s about being on a boat. You have to want the fantasy of sailing big pirate boats and you need to not want much else for your time and money. You may come wanting to live the fantasy of being a ruthl

This dune buggy was one of the most memorable parts of Half-Life 2, carrying the player across beaches, coastal roads and dirt tracks in style. Yes, this six-wheeled tank-turned-utility vehicle handled like crap, but it sure made traversing alien wor

RELEASE April 16, 2024 | DEVELOPER Novadust Entertainment A Studio Ghibli-inspired adventure-puzzler, PC gamers play as android Zee as he solves the mysteries of a fallen utopia. Looks promising. RELEASE April 23, 2024 | DEVELOPER Surgent Studios A B

One of the closest planets to Super Earth, Venture boasts impressive autumnal vegetation. Far less lush, this moon is actually rather grey and barren for the most part. While it’s mostly sand, the rock formations make for some spectacular views. More