Hyper Light Breaker has been in a weird place since its early access launch in January: It's a great action game with a gorgeous neon sci-fi art style, but the hybrid roguelike/extraction shooter structure surrounding that core has been roundly criticized by players.But despite taking it on the chin in the Steam user reviews, developer Heart Machine is responding to those critiques constructively, with its upcoming Buried Below update set...

I was convinced Oblivion Remastered would satisfy my childhood nostalgia when, in the middle of its official reveal, Todd Howard declared with a slight grimace that the devs had made sure to preserve its "charm." That is to say, those baffling bits of jank and strange NPC behaviours that still make the original one of the funniest games ever made.But even I'm pleasantly surprised by just how much jank Virtuos...

The Books with No Pictures quest unlocks as soon as you hit a level 2 friendship with Alice in Disney Dreamlight Valley. If you're already there but the quest is still locked, it might be because you don't have Vanellope living in your valley yet. Once she's moved in, you'll be able to make a start on this quest by talking to Alice.She'll explain how she wants to spend more...

Yesterday, we reported on Intel's new BIOS feature for Core Ultra 200S motherboards, called 200S Boost, whereby the simple click of a BIOS option will overclock certain parts of the Arrow Lake processor. It's mostly just lifts the die-to-die (D2D) and uncore (NGU) clocks from their default 2.1 GHz values to a hefty 3.2 GHz apiece.But having now tested 200S Boost in a handful of games, I suspect that there's...

Just days after an investors report revealed that a new Frostpunk game is coming "as early as 2027," 11 Bit Studios has made it official with the announcement of Frostpunk 1886, a remake that "revisits and expands upon" the original in Unreal Engine 5.Frostpunk 1886 promises "an evolved take on the harsh, morally challenging survival experience" of the original game, but 11 Bit says it's not just a visual upgrade....

This month PC Gamer goes fangs-on with The Chinese Room's revamped World of Darkness RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and discover a thrilling, blood-filled, detective noir experience no gamer should miss. For this world-exclusive cover feature PC Gamer travels to The Chinese Room's Brighton-based studio to play the game for many hours, as well as speak to numerous key devs about their vision for the game. And the...

I recently spent an afternoon getting the original Oblivion to work optimally on Steam Deck. Despite being "playable" out of the box, it's kinda not: the vanilla PC version of Oblivion lacks gamepad support, meaning gamepad glyphs aren't present. While the Steam Deck's community controller layouts tab is a godsend for situations like this, it still means having to adapt to the disconnect between keyboard or mouse prompts and the...

Six months after the massive "teraleak" that unleashed literally decades of Pokémon art, design documents, and other development material upon the world, Nintendo is trying to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind it.As reported by Polygon, the company has petitioned a California court to issue a DMCA subpoena ordering Discord to provide the name, address, telephone number, email address, IP address, "or other information within...

Almost everyone ignores the persuasion minigame in Oblivion if given the chance. I don't blame them—it's really weird and doesn't make any sense if you think about it for five seconds. Why the heck would you always need to admire and coerce every person you try to persuade? And yet, I earnestly enjoy this weirdo minigame, so I'll coach you through how persuasion works in Oblivion so you don't put...

A Variety report says a new videogame based on Robert Jordan's massive Wheel of Time series of books is now in development at a newly established game division of Iwot Studios, one of the production companies responsible for the Wheel of Time TV series on Amazon.The new game, described as a triple-A open-world RPG, will be headed up by former Warner Bros Games vice president Craig Alexander, whose previous credits...