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Time for some good news for a change: After blowing past two million copies sold in just two days, the devs of climbing game Peak have shown some love to fellow mountaineering sim Cairn, and it seems to have paid off big time.The mutual love fest began on X, "The Everything App," with Cairn developers The Game Bakers showing a clip featuring Peak's Bing Bong implemented as an item in...
Blendo Games has publicly released the source code of its latest game, Skin Deep, encouraging other developers to build more stealth games in its footsteps—or at least to take a look at the sick game engine it built. I, for one, am shocked by a specific thing about it: It runs on a core of idTech4, which you may recognize as the engine behind Doom 3."The original idTech4 was made...
If you've been dreading the day Windows 10 officially loses support, coming up in October, you can still buy yourself a little more time before switching to Windows 11. Microsoft has announced an update to its Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10, which gives users an extra year of updates for a $30 fee. At least, that used to be the fee. Now Microsoft is offering an option...
Balatro is one of the (many, many) games marked down for Steam’s annual summer sale. Take it from me: Picking up Balatro on sale — no matter how big or small the discount — is one of the safest bets you can make. As someone who couldn’t tell a flush from a full house but could rattle off every Pokémon TCG Pocket mechanic by heart, I only gave Balatro a shot...
Brahms! My boy! In the new horror sequel M3GAN 2.0, the killer robot doll from the first movie meets the memes where they live. She gets taller and faster and more fashion-forward; she flies through the air in a high-tech wingsuit; she sings Kate Bush; and, with a self-consciousness that threatens to ruin the bit, she goes on undercover missions where people say things like “M3GAN, you’re up.” As one...
Wreckfest 2's early access launch may have been smaller than a Fiat 500 after being run over by a monster truck, but developer Bugbear has been hard at work buffing out the sequel's bodywork since it launched back earlier this year. In May, the game received its first content update adding extra cars and tracks. Now, a second major patch folds in yet more of both, while also tuning up...
Imagine, after two grueling waves in Elden Ring Nightreign, you and a couple of comrades reach the boss at the end of the second night and take him head-on, with surprisingly good results. It’s nearing the halfway mark of its health, and before Crucible Knight goes into its aggressive secondary phase, another health bar populates on the screen. It’s the hungry, hungry Golden Hippopotamus here to ruin your hot streak. ...
If you're looking for an exploration game that's less about clearing millions of icons, and more about finding your own path through a world filled with mysteries, Sable is the game for you. Shedworks' sci-fi coming of age story encourages you to take the world at your own pace, picking a direction and enjoying what happens along the way. It's a less stressful, more zen approach to open world design,...
Like a bespectacled boffin dangling a piece of cheese over the cage of a two-headed lab rat, Abiotic Factor has been teasing me with its 1.0 release for a while. Developer Deep Field Games initially broached the subject back in April as it detailed its upcoming Cold Fusion update, before confirming Cold Fusion is the 1.0 update earlier this month.Now, Deep Field has pinned down a specific date upon which...
When Owlcat left behind the bloated Pathfinder system, a numberhead ruleset that held back the otherwise excellent Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, I rejoiced. Finally, with Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, they'd have the opportunity to focus on their strengths: storytelling and player freedom.But while Rogue Trader did have at least a couple of acts' worth of great writing and a neat warp exploration system, the rules were an absolute...