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Slay the Spire 2 gets 15 powerful new multiplayer cards, while making life easier the first time you install a mod
Slay the Spire 2 has received a bunch of potent new cards specifically for co-operative multiplayer. They span all five of the game's classes, from the aloof and stargazing Regent to the venomous and…
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is getting a "Story Expansion Pass" amid a heap of DLC to help it wrap up the remake trilogy, leaked store listings suggest
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is the end of the remake trilogy Square Enix kicked off with, er, Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Though, it looks like than ending might go on a bit longer than you might have…
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced promises smooth handheld sailing with Steam Deck and Steam Machine verification
As nautical stabbist remake Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced heaves into view of its July 9th release date, it’s already secured one piece of treasure. Namely, a full Steam Deck…
I love being a cultist in Feed the Pit, and not just because I get to throw scummy stock-brokers into a toothy vortex
If Feed the Pit were simply a quickfire extraction game about hunting down obscenely wealthy people and chucking them into a ravenous Sarlacc, that'd have been plenty catharsis enough for this age of…
Relic announce a new Company of Heroes RTS, a wave defence roguelite for strategy buffs who don't have time to fight a whole World War
Very good World War RTS Company of Heroes 3 is getting a standalone wave defence roguelite spin-off, Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, in which you have to outlast 12 rounds of attackers while…
Rust's Common Ground update adds terrifyingly realistic apartment and shop renting, forcing you to feed capricious landlords daily scrap
You wake up in a crappy flat. Ugh. Time to see what's in the cupboards for breakfast. No cereal. Great. Then, a cacophonous banging at the door. "yOu hAvEn'T fEd mE!" Oh, bollocks. You check your…
"I could feel myself coming apart at the seams": Suicide Squad leads on almost leaving the games industry after its failure
Crikey, remember Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League ? That sure was a mess . It was a public mess too, one where there were seemingly some attempts to save the game, but none that could have…
Ithaca is a road trip RPG about climate resistance and dealing with the hostage you have in your trunk
The ethical quandaries around car usage aside, we can all agree there's nothing like a road trip, right? When better a time is there to think about every single decision you've ever made in life than…
That's a bummer: Frictional's Soma follow-up Ontos has been delayed into 2027
To be truthful, these days it's generally surprising when a game isn't delayed these days, whether that be for a month, months, or even a full year. But perhaps in a year like this one, where a…
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Seoul-set MMO shooter Cinder City halves its RAM requirements, after initial specs listed 64GB of memory
RAMnarök may not be a literal cataclysm, of the kind that smashed Cinder City’s version of Seoul into dirty bits, but it ironic that the upcoming tactical shooter MMO seemingly spent much…
Ontos, The Next Horror Game By The Developer Of Soma And Amnesia, Delayed To 2027
Frictional Games, developers of Soma and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, have delayed its next horror title, Ontos, to 2027. The game was first announced at The Game Awards 2025 with a launch scheduled…
The Video Game History Foundation calls on the ESA to offer "meaningful solutions" for preserving digital-only games
While it's not really all that relevant to us PC lot, you've still probably heard word from Sony " How To Lend Games To Your Friends " PlayStation about them no longer printing new games to discs…
"You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach
Raph Koster's career spans the evolution of the modern MMO. Creative lead on MUDs, Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies , and EverQuest 2 , the systems and mechanics his teams developed live on in every…
Onimusha: Way Of The Sword Will Now Launch Three Weeks Earlier
September, particularly its last week, is packed with big releases, and Capcom has seemingly recognized this by adjusting the release date for Onimusha: Way of the Sword . The game was set to launch…
Flask is a grim brew of homunculus autobattling and hand-drawn alchemy, and it’s got a new demo on Steam
Everyone, look how open-minded I am: I’m spotlighting a demo for a game I’m not personally interested in. Nobel Peace Prizes, FIFA Peace Prizes, Pepsi sponsorships, surely all mine now…
Valheim 1.0 won’t update the survival game’s sparse oceans, reveal devs Iron Gate, who add it’s "too soon to say" how long post-release updates will continue
Co-op Viking survival game Valheim 's 1.0 release is set for this September, bringing with it a fearsome final biome, the Deep North . Though, developers Iron Gate have now confirmed that it won't…
Onimusha: Way of the Sword release date pushed forward, its devs deciding they'd rather fight vampires than cosmic entities and Scottish horrors
Ah, don't worry, we're not stressing about that. That's essentially what the makes of samurai action battler Onimusha: Way of the Sword said late last month when it was pointed out to them that their…
New Fallout 4 quest mod starring an iconic Elder Scrolls voice actor has you solve an eccentric gang war over a long-dead starlet's vault of mysterious goodies
Since 2023, a group of well-known Fallout 4 modders have been getting together on an annual basis to team up with Elder Scolls and Fallout voice actor Wes Johnson on a chunky quest mod put together…
Subnautica 2 legal battle ends with reinstated CEO stepping down, as Krafton and Unknown Worlds founders agree settlement
Shake hands with the nearest underwater critter. The Subnautica 2 legal dispute appears to finally have reached its ultimate conclusion, with a settlement agreed between publishers Krafton and the…
Lullabies Made of Static is a quieter, slower, but still quite welcome addition to PC gaming's brutalist walking sim canon
Brutalism serves one of two purposes in games: either as a source of concrete projectiles , or much more commonly, as a backdrop to quietly wander around, feeling morose. Personally I’m a fan…
Mario Kart World Update Adds New Knockout Tour Routes And Stickers For Photo Mode
Mario Kart World is getting an update today that adds two new routes for its elimination competition mode, Knockout Tour. The update also adds the function to place stickers on photos taken in Photo…
Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is getting two new scenarios - a Fallout-style nuclear wasteland, and an early noughties world of UFO sceptics
I had been feeling guilty about not completing my first bout of sci-fi grand strategy game Terra Invicta – six months on from my 1.0 write-up , I'm still trying to colonise my first asteroid …
The PlayStation Stores On PlayStation 3 And Vita Are Shutting Down
In addition to announcing plans to end the production of physical discs for new PlayStation-released games in January 2028, Sony is also planning to shut down two digital storefronts. The PlayStation…
Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap
Say you’ve sprung for a Steam Machine , and are pondering how to put a personal mark on your new black cube. Upgrading the internals? Bit of a faff , it turns out. Playing with the lighting…