As the self-appointed Fox Mulder of games about kicking goblins down flights of stairs, I want to believe that fantasy hack 'n' slash Alkahest can revive the underappreciated swashbuckling brilliance of Dark Messiah: Might and Magic. The game debuted last year with a flashy announcement trailer that really sold me on the concept.But as reported by Andy last year, the trailer also attracted scepticism because it used a mixture of...

Helldivers 2's most recent update has put Super Earth in big trouble. A massive Illuminate invasion scythed straight through the outer planets belonging to humanity, striking right at the Heart of Democracy. Illuminate thralls stalk the streets while vast floating Leviathan creatures bombard brave Helldivers from below.In these dark times, Super Earth looks for a hero, one who will unite humanity in a shared cause and liberate Super Earth from...

LucasArts adventure gaming classic Full Throttle recently celebrated its 30th birthday. Exactly how recently, you ask? Well, that's the question. During birthday preparations for Tim Schafer's beloved motorcycle odyssey, Schafer's studio Double Fine Productions realised it didn't know the precise date of Full Throttle's initial release.Consequently, Double Fine's Customer Support Specialist and amateur sleuth Peter Silk (which is a perfect detective name, by the way) launched an investigation to discover...

Confession time! I have never played The Elder Scrolls: Arena. I was the ripe old age of seven when it released, and my PC gaming debut was still several years away. I have toyed with the idea of going back to it. But I've always fretted it will simply be too crusty for me to properly enjoy. Even Morrowind, a game which I played and loved on launch, is a...

The Witcher games are one of the clearest examples of improvement over a series in videogame history. No backsliding here: The Witcher was a mess, The Witcher 2 was genuinely quite decent, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was a masterpiece. The Witcher 3's success put CD Projekt Red on Sony's speed-dial, but it had other consequences as well.The Witcher 3 at 10(Image credit: CD Projekt RED)To celebrate its 10th...

There's a clue for the Sunday Wordle just a quick scroll away if you need to either make sense of some unusually placed green letters, general inspiration, or just like the idea of starting off on the right foot. Make sure you take a look at our tips if you need a fresh angle on your daily guesses, or click your way to the May 25 (1436) answer whenever you...

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.I try to never be one of those people who talk about how much better things were back in the day… and that's really easy because everything sucked back in the day. Things are terrible these days, sure, but they were even worse "back in the day." Any time anyone tries to tell you things were...

The Independent Fallout Wiki and the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP) have announced a new partnership joining the two endeavors. Both sites' curation, expansiveness, and, crucially, user experiences with minimal/unobtrusive ads make them cherished resources on the internet of 2025."We're now proud to be the host of the Independent Fallout Wiki," UESP wrote on Bluesky. "We don't want to become one of those wikifarms that tries to trap sites, so...

As part of a new "FPS Fridays" series on Twitch, legendary shooter designer John Romero streamed New Blood's 2018 hit, Dusk, one of the first and most influential indie "boomer shooters" in the genre's recent revitalization. The short of it? Romero seems to have had a blast.The Doom dev easily slipped into the rhythms of strafing, juking, and hunting for secrets. Though he insisted he wasn't shooting for 100% completion,...

I've always been a fan of The Finals' destructible environments, although I've sometimes felt its desire to be a proper, grown-up multiplayer shooter obstructed the simple pleasure of ripping a building apart Red Faction: Guerilla style. But that looks set to change, at least temporarily, with the game's newly added limited-time mode. This is a straight-up 5v5 slugfest that mostly involves hitting everyone with hammers, and it's perhaps the closest...