“Spiderweb Software’s latest crappy-looking RPG is now live,” I wrote about Queen’s Wish: The Conqueror back in 2019. Rude? No, it was entirely affectionate: Spiderweb, a husband-and-wife team of Jeff Vogel and Mariann Krizsan, makes games that look like they come from the Gold Box era but have depth and flexibility that make most modern … Read more

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is the current #40 on the PC Gamer Top 100 and one of my personal favourite RPGs of all time. Somehow, though, it does have its detractors. Most notably, a vocal contingent who felt that the game’s ending didn’t live up to their expectations (spoilers for Deadfire follow). Deadfire’s plot … Read more

One of the largest and best changes in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is the new combat system. It’s still faithful to the original’s lethality, but it’s no longer just about standing still waiting to counter an attack. But you know what I don’t love? The confusing removal of hidden blade combat and the ability … Read more

What am I even on this planet for, really? To play videogames? To partake in an unhealthy diet? To make awkward sexual passes at the consenting partner of my choice? All of the above. I might as well dig my own grave and climb into it because there’s a robot on the brink of accomplishing … Read more

Despite the surge in Overwatch players since Blizzard’s decision to drop the 2 and take the hero shooter in a new direction earlier this year, the noise around its MOBA-inspired Stadium mode has died down. And so has its popularity, which has prompted a halt in development plans according to a new blog post by … Read more

GOG is very good at two things: Bringing old games to modern PCs, and telling everyone that its games are DRM-free so you can do whatever you want with them. So I was not terribly shocked when GOG weighed in on Sony’s decision to stop producing game discs in 2028 with a little note reminding … Read more

The original Witcher, released in 2007, was a fairly linear affair, with individual maps to explore but overall progression, from point to point to point, relatively tied down. The remake, in development at Fool’s Theory, is taking a very different approach: It’s a “modern reimagining” of that game as an “open-world RPG.” Simple enough—just make … Read more

I’ve been around long enough that I can remember a time when we didn’t know Steam sale dates in advance. We had a rough window, based on the timing of previous sales, but the absence of anything precise meant that all of us poor news guys had to sit around mashing F5 on Steam every … Read more

Dragon’s Dogma 2’s upcoming Dark Arisen expansion is shaping up to be a proper feast for those of us who’ve been waiting for an excuse to subject ourselves to more doomed oxcart rides. The last 24 hours have brought a number of fresh interviews with the developers of the DD2 expansion, and from the sounds … Read more

XAfter an eight year stretch as vice president and general manager of the Epic Games Store, Steve Allison has left Epic Games to take up the mantle of chief business officer at Saber Interactive. Allison said in a statement (via Games Industry) that he’s “extremely impressed” with what Saber Interactive’s founders have built. “Saber’s strength … Read more