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Now You Can Play Stray From The Cat's Purr-Spective
10.8.2022
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Super Mario 64 Turned Into A First-Person Horror Game
5.8.2022
A guy gets a mysterious letter from his girlfriend, arrives at a castle to find her missing, and loads of rooms full of monsters...it’s the setup to 1996's classic Super Mario 64, sure, but it’s also very much also a survival horror pitch, which is why this new fan-made project is such...
Have You Seen This Dog? Call Of Duty Pup Is ‘Plagiarized,’ Artist Claims
30.7.2022
If you’ve been following along with Call Of Duty lately, you’re no stranger to seeing skins that remind of something you’ve seen before, be it John McClain from Die Hard or Ghostface from Scream. A recent, very adorable, very fluffy skin, however, is looking all too familiar to one artist,...
The Steam Deck's Funky Controls Prove That Gamepads Are Outdated
16.7.2022
What makes the Steam Deck the most unique piece of gaming hardware currently available? You might be tempted to suggest its impressive graphical horsepower crammed into such a small form factor, or portable access to Steam, or even the software gymnastics it does to make Windows games play...
Mass Effect Legendary Edition Is Free For Prime Day
11.7.2022
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is free for members of Amazon’s Prime Gaming service this week. It’s one of six games being given out by the e-commerce giant—which has struggled, despite pouring gazillions into various projects, to produce an acclaimed game of its own—for Prime Day, its annual ritual...
Valve's Fake Games Look Great, Actually
9.7.2022
This year’s Steam Summer Sale is over, so say goodbye to all the deals. But say hello to some rad-looking art! With the sale over, an artist at Valve is now free to share all the fake video game key art and covers that she helped create that were hidden inside Steam’s large digital catalog as part...
New Robocop, Terminator Games Are Coming
8.7.2022
Publisher Nacon announced some new games today, and among them are RoboCop: Rogue City, an upcoming FPS starring the famous cyborg police officer from the 1980s, and Terminator Survival Project, a survival game set in that universe’s bleak, machine-ruled future.Read more
Two Decades Later, Halo 2’s Iconic E3 Trailer Will Be Playable
7.7.2022
The coolest part of Halo 2 never made it into Halo 2. If you’re at all a fan of the series, you know exactly what I’m talking about: the “Earthcity” demo, shown off during Microsoft’s E3 presentation in 2003. That level never made it into the full release of Halo 2, but nearly two decades later,...
A Game So Good It Could Have Been Hexen III
4.7.2022
In the mood for a retro-style FPS, I dug around the new releases on Steam, and poked at a few, not really clicking. Until, that is, I found Hands Of Necromancy, and then played it all weekend. This is a Hexen-like FPS, with enormous, sprawling maps, a whole bunch of weapons, an array of enemy...
Old Soldiers Never Die...
1.7.2022
Graeme McCormack is a veteran artist who has worked on everything from the Halo series to Age of Empires.Read more
Halo Infinite Co-Op Testing Starts July 11, Also Adds Mission Replay
30.6.2022
Good news! Starting July 11, you’ll be able to play Halo Infinite online with up to three friends as part of a beta test. And even better, you’ll be able to replay missions from the campaign, too. However, here’s the bad news: This is a limited-time test of only 10 days. And you’ll need to restart...
Terrible Remake Is Being Remade All Over Again
30.6.2022
In 2003, a shooter called XIII was released. Based on a series of Belgian graphic novels, it tried something unique (for the time) by emulating the comic’s cel-shaded look, and while it wasn’t the greatest shooter ever made, it was still incredibly cool, quickly earning itself cult status.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 QA CEO Claps Back, Says People Don’t Understand Testing
29.6.2022
Cyberpunk 2077 will always be a cautionary tale of how not to make and release a game. It was notoriously marred by technical bugs and developmental woes and now, according to a new report from YouTuber Upper Echelon Gamers, a QA firm allegedly misled CD Projekt Red during the game’s development....
Halo Devs ‘Exploring’ Microtransactions For Master Chief Collection, An 8-Year-Old Game
24.6.2022
It’s one thing for free-to-play shooter Halo Infinite to have microtransactions. Now Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a first-person shooter with a price tag, might see something similar. Maybe. Developer 343 is still “exploring” a “potential” framework “for the future.”Read more
Overwatch 2 Will Replace The Original, Making It Unplayable In October
23.6.2022
If you had a sneaking suspicion that Blizzard’s currently in-beta hero shooter Overwatch 2 would affect the 2016 original in some way, you were absolutely correct. It turns out that when the upcoming sequel drops on October 4, it will straight-up replace Overwatch, rendering that now seven-year-old...
Team Fortress 2’s Latest Update Makes It Easier To Kick All Those Bots
22.6.2022
Yesterday, Valve released a new update for Team Fortress 2 that fixes and tweaks a lot of things, but many players are most excited about the changes to how voting and usernames work, hopeful they’ll make it easier to combat all the annoying bots that continue to plague the multiplayer, class-based...
Doom Modder Ports Game To [Checks Notes] A Lego Brick
21.6.2022
OG Doom is everywhere at this point. It’s on consoles and phones and computers. Someone’s put it on a rotary phone and a calculator. I mean, jeez, you can even play it on Twitter now. But in case you thought folks ran out of ways to play Doom, guess again. It turns out there’s still plenty...
Call Of Duty Cheaters Are Getting Their Guns Taken Away
21.6.2022
Call of Duty is plagued with cheaters, but Activision’s Team Ricochet is always developing new tools to stop bad actors from exploiting Vanguard and Warzone to cheat. Now, Ricochet has implemented another anti-cheat measure as part of its “mitigation toolbox” that steals cheaters’ guns right from...
Cyberpunk 2077 Mod Lets You Get Behind The Wheel Of A Flying Car
21.6.2022
Over a year later, mod support for Cyberpunk 2077 continues on apace, and one of the coolest yet turns every car in the game into a Back To The Future II-style Dalorean. It doesn’t transform Night City into a bustling Bladerunner-opolis, but the mod will let you see the game from a whole...
Everything Missing From This Year’s Not-E3
17.6.2022
Following last night’s back-to-back JRPG stream, not-E3 2022 is officially a wrap. It was a weird one this year. Bethesda finally showed off more than eight seconds of Starfield gameplay, four years after its initial announcement. Several prestigious studios announced remakes of cultural...