By the end of my brief time playing The Children of Clay, a free horror game available on Steam, I had taken my headphones off and was holding myself away from the screen as I selected each action. It was a bright and cheery morning around 11 AM, the sun was shining, my coffee warm, and I was freaked the hell out.The Children of Clay has a brilliant premise: You're...

"I had the surreal experience of building an open-world, post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game in the Wasteland universe for Brian Fargo," says Brian Hicks. "Not knowing that Fallout 76 was a thing and coming."The announcement of Bethesda's Fallout MMO was just the first bomb to detonate over the development of InXile's survival game. When the second dropped, it killed off the project altogether.(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)Long before Clockwork Revolution, the...

Old Tom's Well was never so quaint as its name suggested. I reflected on this fact as I fell into its depths, which had so far refused to provide the full stop of death.A spiralling green vortex, the well had long been a terrifying blot of ink in the story of my journey across Sunless Skies. The very sight of it filled the crew of my locomotive with terror, and...

Season 17 of Sea of Thieves has sailed silently into port, using the moonless night as cover while it unloads its contraband cargo of new features. The latest iteration of Rare's multiplayer pirate sim introduces The Smugglers League, a furtive new faction that operates from six secret hideouts dotted across the game's treacherous archipelago, offering players the chance to acquire some valuable new booty in numerous ways.Chief among these are...

Here's a monster deal sure to be of interest to any wannabe Witcher. Humble Bundle is offering six of the Witcher's RPG gamebooks—amounting to $170's worth of roleplaying tomes—for just $15.The bundle gets you The Witcher TTRPG core rulebook, letting you play as nine different classes including bards, mages, merchants and doctors as well as the titular mercenary monster slayers. It also includes four supplements, starting with A Book of...

Well, here's a cannon blast from the past. Pirates, Vikings & Knights 2 hit 1.0 on Steam while nobody was looking. What's that? You don't remember Pirates, Vikings & Knights 2? Don't blame yourself. There's a reasonable chance you weren't born when it first set sail into the freshly pixel-shaded waters of Half-Life 2 modding.This free multiplayer Source mod first landed on Steam in 2010, but its original version stretches...

Subnautica 2 has become one of the year's most talked-about games, albeit for reasons I don't think anybody wanted. A big legal brouhaha has developed in the wake of publisher Krafton abruptly dismissing the entire leadership team of Subnautica 2's developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment.Those former leaders, including co-founders Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, subsequently filed a lawsuit, claiming Krafton wanted to push Subnautica 2's launch out of 2025 to avoid...

Give your weekend puzzle gaming a boost with our fresh selection of clues and hints for the August 16 (1519) Wordle, written just for today's game and designed to give you the sort of nudge you're after without handing over the winning word. Of course you might like the idea of clicking through to today's answer—if you do, you're in the right place. Go enjoy your win.A clue for today's...

If Steve Wozniak had "only" designed the Apple II, one of the foundational computers of the early PC era, he'd still be a computing legend. But after leaving Apple in the mid-'80s Wozniak went on to help establish the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sponsored the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, and has spent the last four decades on philanthropy, public speaking and founding a truly wild range of tech companies,...

Reaper Actual is a hard sell. It's a plain-looking modern military extraction shooter with Web3 stuff, and I've seen enough of those to know that I'd probably rather be playing Battlefield.But the man behind Reaper Actual, former Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak head John Smedley, has snared me before: I spent a whole summer as an EverQuest halfling and did a few tours in the sci-fi MMO wars of the...