It can be hard to tell whether previews are an accurate overview of a game's focus. When a studio is showing off an immersive sim they often emphasize the combat rather than slower-paced exploration and puzzle-solving stuff, and I imagine the same is true of survival horror. People are less fussed if a preview spoils a boss fight than an entire puzzle solution, and it's a lot easier to sell...

Indie horror developer Mike Klubnika is at it again with his latest, split—stylized s.p.l.i.t—a cerebral and tense game where you do a bunch of pure terminal input hacking to accomplish... something... with your remote black-hat collaborators.The thing you're hacking, however, is anything but normal. It's some kind of terrible electronic... network... thing. The description calls it "an unethical superstructure" but after puzzling about with the information you learn in game...

I replayed the opening levels of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic back in March and it still stands up (and then kicks an orc off a wall). That school of first-person physics fantasy is a much-missed flavor of RPG, which is why it's such a treat to sit down for the trailer of Fatekeeper and realize, after the first tedious minute of exposition is out of the way, that...

The developer of Green Hell is going to an entirely new kind of hell for their next game. Sentenced to a stretch on an alien world for unspecified crimes, your miserable lot is to find research specimens, build up high-tech industrial infrastructure, and send resource shipments home for your corporate overlords. Could be worse, you think.Did I mention that the planet surface is periodically licked clean by a raging firestorm...

Making beautiful living spaces in House Flipper seems to be something people enjoy. It's like The Sims, a place of aspiration and creative joy. But what about a game for those of us who make awful crap heaps for their Sims? Who pinch every penny?Looks like that'll soon exist: Low-Budget Repairs is an upcoming game where you're a handyman doing renovations in 1990s Polish apartments, and your job is to...

If you've been keeping an eye on the pre-purchase page for Battlefield 6 on Steam, you might have noticed two different required file sizes: 55GB for the minimum specs and 80GB for the recommended specs. Such a large discrepancy piqued our curiosity, and we reached out to EA for clarification."Yes, you will be able to pick and choose which components of the game you install," we were told by an...

When I got back in town from vacation, it was a top priority for me to hit Elden Ring Nightreign's latest rotating "Everdark" superboss, the Augur, aka. Maris, Fathom of Night. "Don't spoil yourself on it, it's amazing," PCG contributor Tyler Colp warned me before we queued up, but with the added caveat that "people hate it." Spoilers for the Everdark Augur fight below.Solo Souls challenge runner Ongbal called it...

Microsoft Recall's security woes have come back to the fore after a test caught the AI screenshotting tool capturing sensitive data (again). Ahead of its public beta release in April, Microsoft made a slew of security updates to Recall, including adding a filter that's supposed to block Recall from recording passwords, credit card info, social security numbers, and similar sensitive data. It looks like more fine-tuning is still needed.The Register's...

If your next Peak run looks impossible, it just might be. On Saturday, dev Aggro Crab posted a screenshot of an impossible-to-reach campfire that spawned on top of an unclimbable tree. Peak is challenging, but it's not supposed to be quite that challenging.Aggro Crab explained the glitch in a post on X (with a string of crying emojis): "A modder in discord has informed me that in two days there...

In a new video on his YouTube channel, RPG veteran Tim Cain outlined the challenges inherent to remastering Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, one of the true hardcore sicko legends of CRPGs, and a game that could really use a remaster.Vexingly, it sounds like the dark ritual to reanimate Arcanum is pretty much all set up for some corporate necromancer to step in and utter an incantation, particularly when...