Thief: The Dark Project is one of my favourite games of all time, so naturally I am very excited for Nightdive Studios' upcoming remaster. But it's worth remembering that the community has done an excellent job supporting the game up until this point. Unofficial patches like NewDark have ensured that Looking Glass' landmark stealth game can run in high resolutions and with support for widescreen and multi-monitor functionalities for years.And...

Valve implemented age verification for Australian Steam users earlier this month, which was inevitable: Australian law demands it. Unfortunately, Valve has opted for the most brute force, user-negligent approach possible. To buy R18+ games on Steam in Australia—to even access their store pages—you need to provide a credit card.The problem being that most Australians don't use credit cards. This study of consumer payment behaviour by the Reserve Bank of Australia...

Steam's global top sellers are my Hit ParadeDropping back 3 places this week is Dota 2, hanging in at number 10 in its 460th week in the charts. Did you know Mr. Brightside by The Killers has held the UK pop charts in a stranglehold for the last 520(!) weeks?A new entry at number 9 for Dressmaker. More than just another shop sim, this is serious seamstress simulation. Fashion hasn't...

This is a frog named Touch Me from Final Fantasy 7. You can now look at Touch Me from all angles via this 3D model viewer. You can make Touch Me dance and break it down. Look at him go.(Image credit: Square Enix (via Pardall Games))

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi must be one of the least guarded interviewees working for a major publisher. Before I speak to him, I find tons of details about the final game in the Remake trilogy spread across a dozen different sources—everything from granular titbits about why Vincent Valentine has a unique skydiving animation to defending the sheer volume of minigames that make the cut. This is someone...

Silent Hill: Townfall is a suffocating experience, especially if you're like me and love tormenting yourself with stealth, limiting the use of any kind of weapon. I spent almost all of my first playthrough forgoing any pipe or plank, or even pistol in favour of my trusty CRTV and top-notch strategy. But my pacifist run stopped dead in its tracks when I got my hands on the shotgun. Silent Hill:...

Between midnight and 8:00 am this morning I received 56 emails. By the end of today that number will be well over a hundred, by the end of October I'll have about 4,000 more, and my total for 2026 will be in the neighborhood of 50,000 (work and personal combined.)Fifty. Thousand. Emails. In a year! That's with (and I just counted) the 284 email filters I've set up to keep...

Just as Star Wars Zero Company was set to launch earlier this year, developer Bit Reactor furloughed over 80% of its staff over sales uncertainty. In other words, much of its staff were receiving no pay, despite technically being employees, right when players were getting their hands on the game. Earlier this week on Bluesky, the studio announced it had begun undoing this "difficult decision" (via gamesindustry.biz).Bit Reactor CEO Greg...

Arc Raiders' new outpost system arrived with the Frozen Trail update, and like many I'm sure, I pretty much ignored the entire furniture aspect of it. My mind was occupied with upgrading the outpost itself, building rooms, and trying to get an Emperor Modulator and Frigate Inductor to level my Gunsmith and Research Bench. I wanted those spicy new amplified weapon upgrades like explosive bullets or incendiary shells.I assumed the...

We are now in the second half of the most brutal war to play out on the pages of this venerable website—a war that will determine, through democracy and science, which RTS unit is the greatest of them all. Two weeks ago, the conflict started with 16 units. Last week, eight survivors duked it out in the quarterfinals. Blood was shed and four more units were tossed into the void....