Over 160 copies of Factorio, a base building game from four years ago, ran simultaneously on servers around the world to make history. Factorio’s first ‘God Factory’ was born through the efforts of a Discord server full of people who refuse to stop b

You know that thing where your brain slightly alters any memory it recalls? Evil West is the videogame version of that. I picked it up because I’ve been pining for linear third-person action games lately, the kind that followed in the bloody wake of

Putting Challenge 2 is (deep breath) a fan game based on the fake videogame featured in an episode of The Simpsons. Remember? Bart received it as a gift instead of the ultraviolent Bonestorm. While another developer has recreated the game featured in

Cor! Look at those swaying aquatic plants as you dive underwater, ready to hide from mechanical foes. Look at the neon lights that form the cyber-ghost of Las Vegas above the post-apocalyptic dunes! Horizon: Forbidden West is a technical tour de forc

First Encounter Assault Recon is an example of one my favorite videogame tropes: the laughably functional acronym. Instead of sounding cool, FEAR makes you imagine a team of dull military minds sat around a secret table in the Pentagon, trying to thi

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Ever feel like you’d be really good at something, despite refusing to try it? I feel that way about dessert making. I see a great confection and think, ‘I could make that.’ In my heart I know I couldn’t, but there are lots of men who think they’d win

Rounding up this month’s spectral collection is Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, if only because Phasmophobia has made me want to turn the tables on the undead for shaving actual years off my life. Does it hurt the ghosts when Pac-Man eats them? I ho

The world is ending in a matter of days. Doom is upon Nova Chrysalia, the corrupted, dying world created when the world of Gran Pulse and the limbo realm of Valhalla, collapsed together. Chaos surrounds this last bastion of humanity against the endle

The galactic war sees Super Earth beset on both sides by Terminid insects and Automaton robots. These factions feature entirely different rosters; the Automatons, for example, have ranged weapons, while the Terminids rely more on swarming you. While

Beyond death, in Tim Schafer’s world at least, there is only bureaucracy. Supernatural mythologies often reflect the human experience, and the afterlife —or at least, one of the afterlives—being a corporate hellscape filled with message tubes, secret

Few online RPGs have transformed as much in the past decade as The Elder Scrolls Online. First debuting in April of 2014 as a confused, awkward thing, loved by few. Today, it proudly stands alongside its singleplayer peers. Here’s how TESO escaped Ob

I’m not too proud to admit I am obsessed with roguelike deckbuilders. Ever since Slay the Spire first blew the doors off the genre back in 2017, moving cards around has been my default mode of existence—in the absence of anything else to distract me

PC gaming is for everyone. Pick the parts you want to build a new, well-rounded PC for a good price. You want to run every new game at 1080p 60fps. This recommended build will see you through. You’re looking for the best PC on the market and superior

Back in 2021, indie developer Wolfire filed an antitrust lawsuit against Valve that accused the gaming giant of anti-competitive business practices—including its habit of taking unfair cuts from developers on its store. Valve’s 30% fees have come und

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Twitter @rnicholasj This month Went drinking with Cutter Slade on Adelpha. Talked about man stuff, like raising unruly daughters, how the Talanzaar Oogoobars can’t score this season, and why commuting via jetpack is crucial to beat the traffic. The o

There’s a fundamental contradiction between how Outcast – A New Beginning looks and sounds to how it actually plays. Visually, it’s often epic. The alien world of Adelpha has never looked better, with Pandora-lite environments seamlessly alternating

baldursgate3.game → As I’ve now poured over 700 hours of my life into Larian’s Astarion Dating Simulator I thought I’d use this space to apologize to my husband, who probably wishes I displayed half as much enthusiasm for our marriage as I do the pal

PC gaming isn’t governed by universal logic. We build a new PC to meet Ark: Survival Evolved’s demands, and then spend a hundred hours playing Vampire Survivors on it instead. We wear RGB headsets and then sit there, not seeing the RGB lighting. And

What were you doing in 2010? Chances are you weren’t playing a Korean MMO called Vindictus, also known as Mabinogi Heroes, which won the grand prize at the 2010 Korea Game Awards. It’s still going today, has been praised for its combat, and Defying F

The release of Unreal Tournament 2004 represented a remarkable moment in PC gaming history. Not only was the game a joy to play, building on the multiplayer shooter mechanics that had originated in 1999’s Unreal Tournament, but it was also able to be

Sergii Greben’s path into game development is an interesting one. Having worked in a web development job for a few years, and finding that this failed to give him much satisfaction, he joined a group of passionate Mount & Blade modders; a group that

Elden Ring Reborn, a total conversion mod that switches up item and enemy placements, overhauls progression while adding a slew of quality of life improvements, is like hearing a club mix of your favorite song at a nightclub: the lows are filtered, t

Friends, the worst fate has befallen me: my GPU’s getting a bit old. Not so much that certain new releases are off limits, you understand. That used to be the case in a bygone era of PC gaming when advancements moved quicker. Minimum requirements wer