If you've ever wanted to play a cozy life sim where you craft, farm, build, cook, and complete quests for villagers, and also make products from human corpses, Graveyard Keeper 2 is out today.I'm only about 13 hours into it and it's got that same immediately engrossing crafting loop as the original. Gotta chop wood, gotta mine ores, gotta cook food, gotta level up skills and earn points and unlock...

Los Santos CustomsI'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.Have you heard? Crazy Taxi is coming back. As a game, yes (with some rather off-putting gen-AI mixed in there), and...

I'm a thoroughly average gamer. And in first-person shooters, I reckon I am ever so slightly above average at aiming—If aim-tester software, Aimlabs, is anything to go by, at least (top 38%, baby). But as a hardware tester, I have access to all kinds of gaming gear, and that includes competitive-level specs. I wanted to see if the average gamer would benefit from a better polling rate and, as the...

I have my own separate issues with the Steam marketplace and points shop, but I can't lie: I love collecting themes that make my Steam profile look like a relic of the early 2000s. It's not quite as satisfying as the complex Dragon Ball Z profiles I styled back in the day on Neopets or LiveJournal, but it may be the closest thing I have to simulating the feeling.(Image credit:...

I realize it's poor form of me, but I can't mind my own business, and I'm about to yuck some of y'all's yum. Why does every game need a series of mods turning their respective worlds into smooth-faced dystopias? It's like there's an unwritten rule somewhere that the first batch of fanmade downloads in every game's modding scene must include 'fixes' for no pores, no freckles, no scars, and no...

A common early World of Warcraft experience was to stumble into a series of corpses lying on the ground that, when looked at from the right angle, spelled out a URL for a site where you can pay real money for in-game gold.Gold was scarce back then, which spawned an entire market for buying it instead of grinding for it. Even if you never touched one of those sites, it...

The ArmA family tree(Image credit: Future)This TikTok from Biffmatic (recently reshared by Bohemia Interactive) reminded me just how different PC gaming would look today if not for Arma, the long-running milsim series that's still going strong.Pretty much everyone knows that DayZ, one of the important PC games of the previous decade, began as an Arma 2 mod. The idea of PvPvE survival—the kind where you never know if you can...

When the gates opened on the World of Warcraft: Forever beta, it was a free-for-all. Everyone fought to be the first to "tag" enemies with their attacks so they would count for their quests—a problem that is essentially obsolete in modern WoW.My memories of doing this in the real classic WoW came flooding back as I frantically tried to claim enemies before someone else did. But that old frustration also...

I swore I'd never become this evil"I think there are some genuine wrinkles in MoP: Remix, for sure. I'd like to see the shared XP buff thing return, for example—but the frog farming is only a problem if you view the event as a competitive experience, which it isn't designed to be."- me, May 21, 2024. (Image credit: Blizzard)Anyway, this beta is not designed to be a competitive experience. For...

I'm calling it here—this is as bad as it's gonna get. Insomniac's Wolverine has been getting slapped around a fair bit because it's perhaps the summit, the zenith—of 'how much handholding can you put in a game before we all get sick of it'. And listen, I've actually defended yellow paint on this site before. I am in agreement with most developers that a little guidance is good. Players do...