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The folks at Aggro Crab were feeling the fatigue. Their previous game, the underwater Souls-like Another Crab’s Treasure, was their biggest undertaking since the studio was started back in 2019. While the creative action game had been received well by reviewers and players alike, it also took three years to make. A prototype for their next game, a sequel to 2020’s roguelike Going Under, was spun up almost immediately after...
Bethesda has rolled out a new patch for Oblivion Remastered that promises numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, and also adds a little more flexibility to combat difficulty settings.The difficulty adjustment is neither a nerf to this nor a buff to that, but rather the addition of a new "Journeyman" setting that Bethesda hopes "will act as a better bridge" between the "Adept" and "Expert" settings.This is a bigger deal...
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Are you somebody who has yet to hit the streets of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077? Consider today your lucky day, as the dystopian open-world RPG is now free on PlayStation Plus as part of the service’s 15th anniversary celebration. The celebration also includes a special 30% discount for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC — exclusive for PlayStation Plus members — lasting until Wednesday, July 23. Furthermore, Abiotic Factor, a...
Hiya, haters No matter the koopa-related danger, Toad has always stood by the side of Mario, Luigi, and Peach with a cheery smile. Tested by everything from face-offs with Bowser to tracking treasures to 18 holes of obstacle-heavy golf and Mario’s cursed parties, the loyal servant of the Mushroom Kingdom has been an unshakeable source of positivity since 1985. Or so I thought. Consider me shocked and nearly appalled when...
Twisted Metal season 2 is set to premiere on July 31, and based on the trailer, it appears the Peacock show will finally be taking its in-game premise of a demolition derby to heart with a proper tournament. The first season detoured from adapting the video games in a straightforward way to give our protagonist, John Doe (Anthony Mackie), a proper origin story and character arc. Putting an actual Twisted...
Disney Plus’ Ironheart is an underwhelming series for many reasons. It’s tonally inconsistent, zipping between whimsical singalongs and somber sequences tracking the long-term impact of gun violence. Like so many MCU shows, it’s more concerned with setting up the next part of the franchise than telling a satisfying standalone story. Its biggest fight scene takes place in a White Castle, reducing the impact with egregious product placement. But in the...
Netflix and CD Projekt Red announced a second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners at the 2025 Anime Expo, and it’s no surprise — the anime, which won the prestigious “Anime of the Year” award at the 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, played a major part in making 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077 so successful following its troubled debut. Before Cyberpunk: Edgerunners debuted, Cyberpunk 2077 struggled to recover from bugs and backlash over a gameplay...
If you have, at any point, attempted to wrestle the PC version of Nier: Automata into submission, odds are you've downloaded and installed Special K, a graphics and performance enhancement suite that you can plug into all manner of games (both Niers, Elden Ring, Persona 4, and plenty else besides) to hopefully get them running a little smoother. It's been supplanted by other mods—at least for some games—over the years,...
PC Gamer recently dispatched Robert Zak to chat with the senior developers behind Deus Ex, in order to mark the 25th anniversary of a true classic. Among the many nuggets are that the initial pitch for the game starred Jake Shooter, supercop, and that the team never really thought that one of the most political games you could imagine was political at all.The story of Deus Ex's development is also...
The humble health bar is not made to be remembered. It's there primarily for information, and yet the best games use health bars (as well as other UI elements) to add beauty, express personality, or more deeply immerse us in the world around it.Health bars aren't as commonplace as they used to be in big-budget games—in fact, a whole generation of shooters left them behind in favor of regenerating health—but...