Here's a truth no one but I am willing to admit: Mafia 3 was good, actually. Please disregard PC Gamer's 54% Mafia 3 review. I don't know what happened there. Possibly Andy Kelly put the wrong game disc in by mistake. I understand they were still using game discs in 2016, alongside gramophones, the telegram, wax cylinders and what have you.It's now 10 years old, which is deeply troubling, but...

I introduced Overcooked to two of my friends one day back in 2016. One day being the key phrase here. The Overcooked games are on our list of the best co-op games, but the series has a reputation for ruining relationships—in China it's apparently known as "The Divorce Kitchen". I don't recall actually fighting with my friends, but the tension was thick enough that we quickly went back to playing...

XA Deadline report says Paramount Pictures is working with CD Projekt Red on a live-action movie set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, whose previous films include a pile of Transformers movies, a couple GI Joe flicks, and the 2005 Doom movie starring The Rock, attached to produce.CD Projekt Red co-CEO Michał Nowakowski confirmed the report on X:(Image credit: Michał Nowakowski (Twitter))There's really no more detail at...

2018's Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry was a genuinely pleasant surprise, in that it's actually good—quite a contrast to the preceding games in the series, Magna Cum Laude and Box Office Bust, which were decidedly not good. A sequel followed, Wet Dreams Dry Twice, and once again it was pretty good stuff—not hugely innovative or high art, but a genuine Leisure Suit Larry experience that manages to avoid...

Blue team reinforcements"Lonestar cash and XP bonus. Season 2 only. New Bakurani spawn." "We're looking at how we can help the win rate of a certain team." -Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer (via "Road to Season 2" devlog)Bulkhead wants to boost one team's win rate, and it's willing to bribe its players (with in-game cash) to do it. Despite all three teams starting on equal grounds, many Wardogs players have been...

Nivalis Nights is mostly a story-heavy shop simulation but it does also have a sprinkle of relationship building. Conversations with characters can affect four different attitudes towards you: friendly, combative, romantic, and savvy. Dialogue options aren't clearly marked though, so you don't always know if you're about to piss someone off or say something they'll perceive as flirtatious.Spoiler: Lois doesn't seem to take this as an invitation. (Image credit: Ion...

(Image credit: Xbox)Minecraft has a new boss: Maria Angelidou-Smith, who is joining Microsoft from Reddit, where she spent not quite a year as the platform's chief product officer. "We wanted someone who has built products for communities at enormous scale, who is deeply technical, and who understands how creators, product, technology, and monetization come together," Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said. "Maria brings a rare combination of those experiences. She spent...

(Image credit: Nightdive Studios)The System Shock TV show announced in 2021 is no longer moving ahead. "The company we were working with, they had also licensed the rights to a number of other video game properties," Nightdive Studios chief Stephen Kick told FRVR. "I don’t believe that company is still around [in that form]. So that won’t be happening through Binge."Kick said "preliminary scripts" for the show were written, and...

One of the most beloved horror games (demos?) of all time is finally free from the shackles of the PS4. Hideo Kojima's P.T. has been natively ported to PC by programmer Lorean Xavier, who made the project public this week. Not an emulator nor a remake, the native PC client does not contain any copyrighted materials—it requires a dumped copy of P.T. to function—but instead translates the original code into...

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