There have been so many games released this year that it can be hard to keep track of…or maybe you just don’t want to remember them at all. I’m aware it’s not 2025 yet, but hear me out. The only true candidates for GOTY so far are Rise of the Ronin, …
Continue reading "10 games released in 2024 that you probably already forgot about"We haven’t written about Diplomacy Is Not An Option since it launched in Early Access in 2022, when it was a light and frothy strategy game about smashing thousands of peasants to bits with physics magic. It’s still that, but now it’s getting a 1.0 re…
Continue reading "Diplomacy Is Not An Option’s castle-building spectacle-strategy gets a 1.0 release October 4th"InZOI is the life-sim of your dreams, or at least that’s what PUBG overlord Krafton is eager to reinforce during my attendance at the studio’s Gamescom showcase. At first glance, I wouldn’t blame you if your mind darts immediately to The Sims, but InZ…
Continue reading "Sims rival InZOI has lofty ambitions, but even the sky needs a limit"Balancing an RTS game is no easy feat, but when you’re remaking a classic one, keeping things fair and fun while still being faithful to the source material can make things a little more challenging. This is the conundrum faced by the developers of Ag…
Continue reading "Age of Mythology Retold took a “stalker-y” approach to rebalancing RTS"One of the greatest shames of FPS history is how the Marathon series passed so many of us by, especially if we were busy with our Pentiums, 486’s, and our IBM-Compatibles. While in 1996 we did have Quake, Terra Nova, Strife, Duke Nukem 3D, and of cour…
Continue reading "Bungie’s Quake competitor Marathon Infinity lands on Steam for free"Riot Games has been on fire when it comes to dropping new League of Legends skins through 2024, and according to the developers, they aren’t slowing down with the releases just yet. In a new developer blog, the team behind League‘s cosmetics explained…
Continue reading "Riot teases upcoming LoL skin straight out of Ace Attorney, more 2024 Legendary and Prestige skins"Image: Google Google is making a new desktop app called Essentials that packages a few Google services, like Messages and Photos, and includes links to download many others. The app will be included with many new Windows laptops, with the first ones c…
Continue reading "Google is shoving its apps onto new Windows laptops"We’ve been distracted by Gamescom, several game releases, the rapid dwindling of the British summer. Or I assume we have, for why else would we not have yet posted about the Steam Rhythm Fest, which began on Monday and runs until August 26th at 10am P…
Continue reading "Steam Rhythm Fest is underway with discounts and demos for games with a good beat"The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim has been in the works for about three years now, but with its release date fast approaching we now have our first trailer. It’s one of the more unusual and intriguing projects under the Lord of the Rings f…
Continue reading "First trailer for Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim shows an anime-styled Middle-earth"There are many things good with Black Myth: Wukong. But there might be just one single thing holding the game back from perfection: invisible walls. Many players seem to think so, and they’re expressing their one gripe with the title on places like Re…
Continue reading "Black Myth Wukong players think there’s only one thing holding it back from perfection"
