NEED TO KNOWWhat is it? An atmospheric adventure about guiding magical creatures to a new home. Expect to pay: $25/£20Developer: OkomotivePublisher: PanicReviewed on: Intel i5 6600K, RTX 3080, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Official siteI loved Far: Lone Sails and Far: Changing Tides, the lonely, meditative side-scrolling forays into the unknown from Swiss studio Okomotive, so when its new game Herdling was announced last year I was immediately interested. Also, I admit,...

Three years after Shock recidivist Ken Levine formally unveiled his next game as Judas, we still don't know much about it, except that it sure looks like a new BioShock. But that situation will hopefully be changing soon: Levine posted the very first Judas dev log today, and said he hopes "to communicate more frequently to update you with new details of what we are working on."In previous BioShock games,...

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines.The family of a 16-year-old teenager who died by suicide in April after being coached and encouraged to do so by ChatGPT have sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of...

No one is safe from the ire of players who feel like their toys were ripped away from them. Not even Blizzard when it tried to balance World of Warcraft's next Remix event after players overwhelmingly loved how unbalanced the last one was.The concept was simple: Break off an old WoW expansion as its own mode, add powerful new gear to it, and let players earn rewards to take back...

There are plenty of reasons for PC gamers to skim the list of the most-played games on Steam on a regular basis. What are the hottest games of the moment? How's my favorite game doing these days? Is that new release breaking any records?So you're probably pretty well-versed on the games that appear on Steam's most-played list, which ranks games based on concurrent player count. But what about the most-played...

Every few months the No Man's Sky community gets a treat: a new update is announced that introduces new features and systems for the sci-fi sandbox. Something else that happens every few months: the Light No Fire community gets its hopes up that the announcement will actually be about Hello Games' upcoming Earth-sized fantasy sandbox.Today both communities got their wish. (Note: I'm pretty sure the No Man's Sky community and...

How many bases do you need in a single game? Ask someone who likes base-building, like me, and they'll probably say "As many as you can give me."No Man's Sky already has a few kinds of player bases. Base-building was added to the space sandbox in 2016, along with freighters that can be parked in orbit and customized. Settlements can also be built and managed, which is like making an...

I'm way more excited for The Outer Worlds 2 now that I've played a little bit of it. Even though the demo Obsidian provided only contained the sci-fi RPG's prologue area⁠—think the Nautiloid from Baldur's Gate 3, but more substantial⁠⁠—there was enough in the 45 minutes or so of gameplay that really impressed me. Enough, in fact, to sustain three play-throughs with different builds.I liked but didn't love the first...

At the moment, only PC gamers in China get to enjoy AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE, basically a three-quarters version of its superb RX 9070 XT, with 48 compute units and 12 GB of VRAM. However, the GPU rumour mill is fizzing a bit with a claim that Team Red is planning on releasing a 16 GB variant. If that's the case, it could be a sign that AMD is...

Rumours involving AMDs next-gen graphics technology—whether you want to go by RDNA 5 or the new UDNA nomenclature—are reaching critical mass. We've already seen claims that AMD is plotting a high-end GPU with an incredible 192 CUs. Now one of the most reliable sources of advanced GPU information in the business has released a new leak that cuts the compute unit count in half to just 96 for the top...