Month: September 2024

Academy Award-winning thespian Nicolas Cage was recently announced as an upcoming addition to the long-running survival horror game Dead by Daylight. And let there be no doubt, it’s 100% the Full Nic. He said in June that he doesn’t just appear in the game, he’ll be “fused” with players who assume his digital persona: “I want you to know when you’re playing the Nic Cage survivor, I want you to …

Palworld is 2024’s first surprise hit, combining all the familiar elements of the popular survival genre with an irresistible layer of Pokémon-inspired Pals to do your bidding. It’s a game with no firm endpoint but a finite amount of stuff to do, and so unsurprisingly plenty of players picked it up, played it, and moved onto other things. 

Players and developers now have acces…

Having worked its magic on drifting and rallying, minimalist racing studio Funselektor is now turning its attention to “the golden era of open wheel racing.” Golden Lap is going to be quite a bit different than the studio’s previous racing games, though, because this time around you’re not the driver—you’re the boss.

As the manager of an aspiring faux-F1 team, you’ll make the calls …

True story: I bought Stardew Valley in 2017 and finally started playing it this past weekend. Why did I wait almost eight years before planting my first parsnip? Honestly, I was afraid it would become too much of a timesink. Judging from the 12 hours I played in the past three days on my Steam Deck, I was correct.

Point is, this bit of news is especially pertinent to me but also other Sta…

If productivity apps were party guests, Microsoft Excel would be the guy who sits in the corner, interrupting every anecdote with the phrase “actually, I think you’ll find…”, and as a result, rarely gets invited back. It’s a dependable old workhorse of a program, depressingly accurate and dry as the apocalyptic wastes. 

However, this Fallout-inspired RPG runs right inside of t…

Struggling with your daily Wordle? Then you’ve come to the right place. There’s a fresh clue written for today’s game waiting just below, and if you’re about to run out of guesses, the answer to the July 21 (762) puzzle’s only a click away. However you want to win, we’ve got it covered.

Today’s puzzle felt like something of a close call, as I didn’t really have enough to work with until m…

This project blew me away the moment I came across it, and the further I went down this rabbit hole, the more astounded I became. Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene that has been created by one guy… yup, just one guy. It shows the life of one floor on a huge space station and is absolutely packed with references from varied media forms (including videogames, which we will get …

If you want to know what I think of Tribes, I reviewed the last entry in the series (2012’s free-to-play Tribes: Ascend) for Eurogamer and it’s one of the few games I’ve ever given a 10. God that game was good, though, sadly, it didn’t quite stick the landing with enough players to survive: Ascend went into that good night in 2016, since when there’s been a large Tribes-shaped gap in my …

The venerable online shooter Tribes made a surprise comeback in late 2023 as Tribes 3: Rivals, and with a launch set to happen later this year developer Prophecy Games has announced the first Rival Rumble tournament, an open-to-all competition that’s set to get underway on January 27.

The tournament could be a big one: Entry is free, there’s no cap on the number of signups, everyone who j…

I think we can all agree that piracy is basically an inevitability for any piece of software. For years now, we’ve been living in an era where Denuvo gets cracked so quickly for new games that it’s not even worth running a headline about it. But while piracy might be inevitable, the question remains: is it morally acceptable? I mean, sure—according to Ultrakill dev Arsi “Hakita” Pa…