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Star Wars Jedi Power Battles Is A Perfect Remaster Of A Bad Game
23.1.2025
Here’s an interesting question: If the subject of a really good remaster is a bad game, does that mean the remaster is also bad, or just a good way to experience the original flawed product? That’s the question I’ve been pondering since playing Star Wars: Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles.Read more
Far Cry 3 Does What Every Game Should And Ditches Unobtainable Multiplayer Achievements
17.1.2025
Far Cry 3 was released over a decade ago, and while it supported achievements on console and Ubisoft’s own PC launcher, it didn’t include any Steam achievements. But as Ubisoft returns to Steam, it’s also going back and adding these missing challenges to older games, including Far Cry 3. And even...
A PDF File Is The Latest Unlikely Thing Doom Has Been Ported To
15.1.2025
A crafty high-schooler was able to do something I didn’t think was possible: They got Doom running inside a PDF file. Seriously. And weirdly, it works better than you might expect! Read more
19,000 Games Came To Steam In 2024 And 80 Percent Of Them Had Almost No Players
13.1.2025
Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! In fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.Read more
Feeding Sodas To A Demonic Puppy Makes You Stronger In This New FPS
10.1.2025
I’m nearly dead. Health is basically zero. I need help. So I step past a demonic dog and enter a dark, ominous bathroom. I quickly knock on the lone stall inside. It creaks open, I hear...something inside and then a single soda can rolls out. Instead of drinking it, however, I gamble, and knock...
2025 Sounds Like The Year Halo Comes To PS5 And Switch 2
10.1.2025
Microsoft has made no secret of wanting to bring more of its Xbox exclusives to other platforms, and it sounds like Halo might finally be making the leap. The platfor- defining franchise will see its Halo: The Master Chief Collection come to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 in 2025, according to gaming...
Amazon Has 16 More Free Games To Add To Your Massive Backlog
9.1.2025
Happy New Year! Did you walk away from Christmas with more games to play and a backlog that seems impossible to chop through? Well, get ready to possibly add even more games to it, as Amazon has announced 16 free games are coming to Prime members in January. Read more
Remedy Has A Plan To Make Sure Its Online Shooter Doesn't Flop Like Concord
9.1.2025
In 2025, the idea of releasing a paid, online-only multiplayer shooter seems very risky, as we’ve seen plenty of them fail. But Remedy, the developers behind Control and Alan Wake, have a plan to make sure their first multiplayer game—FBC: Firebreak—succeeds and doesn’t flop like Concord...
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Writer Reveals What They Took From Us
9.1.2025
We’ll probably never get a true sequel to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or experience just how it and its predecessor would have connected up with the original Deus Ex, released all the way back in 2000. But there was a plan to wrap things up and connect all the dots, and it sounds like it would have...
Xbox's First Showcase Of 2025 Will Have Deep Dives Into Doom: The Dark Ages And More
9.1.2025
Microsoft has a huge lineup of big games for the Xbox Series X/S and PC (as well as PlayStation 5) this year, and it’s getting the ball rolling early with a January showcase to give players a better look at Doom: The Dark Ages and a bunch of other stuff coming out in 2025.Read more
13 Years Later, You Can Still Find People Playing Call of Duty On PS Vita
6.1.2025
The one Call of Duty game released on the PlayStation Vita in 2012 apparently still has an active player base in 2025. So if you’ve been desperately wanting to play Nukehouse again, go find your Vita and Black Ops Declassified and hop online. Read more
BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
3.1.2025
In a recent interview with Games Industry.biz, Ken Levine disparaged his most famous and popular game, BioShock, as “a very, very long corridor.” He uses this description pejoratively to distinguish the 2007 first-person mystery game from his current project, science fiction FPS Judas, a game...
Free COD: Black Ops 6 Crossover With Squid Game Locks Best Rewards Behind A Paywall
2.1.2025
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is getting a Squid Game event this weekend following the hit Netflix show’s recent return with season two. Unlike previous events, however, this one will lock some of its best rewards behind a paid event pass. Think of it as a battle pass within a battle pass, on top of...
Team Fortress 2's Spy Finally Took His Mask Off After 17 Years
20.12.2024
Well, here’s something I wasn’t expecting to see: Valve has finally revealed what Team Fortress 2's Spy looks like under his mask. And it turns out he looks pretty dang handsome!Read more
Helldivers 2 Giving Away Second Killzone Set For Free After Fan Backlash Over $20 Prices
19.12.2024
Yesterday, Helldivers 2 officially revealed its first crossover skins collaboration: Killzone 2. But players immediately balked at the $20 price tag, and now the sci-fi shooter’s developers are trying to put down the fan rebellion with a holiday freebie. Read more
Helldivers 2 Fans Are In Full Revolt Over Expensive Killzone Crossover Skins
18.12.2024
Helldivers 2's first crossover collaboration is officially here and it’s already causing some wallet agita. The good news is the multiplayer game is getting Killzone Helghast skins as it approaches its one-year anniversary. The bad news is the entire bundle of virtual cosmetics costs $20, half...
Delta Force, As Told By Steam Reviews
18.12.2024
It seems like every year or two, we have a new “Battlefield-killer” storming the market in the hopes of gaining a following within the large-scale first-person shooter market. Following the absolute disaster of Battlefield 2042, there’s a pretty large hole to fill. But is Delta Force—the...
The Best Shooters Of 2024
17.12.2024
Last year I said we were leaving the golden era of modern shooters. But, as it turns out, I might have spoken too soon! 2024 provided a huge list of great third- and first-person shooters across console and PC, from devs both big and small. This year had so many awesome games that deciding which...
Stalker 2, As Told By Steam Reviews
16.12.2024
Despite a war in Ukraine forcing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2’s developers to abandon its offices and countless setbacks throughout the game’s lifespan, Stalker 2 finally launched in an impressive, though somewhat buggy, manner. Read more
Space Marine 2 Devs Are Working On A New Turok Game
13.12.2024
Last night during the Game Awards, Saber Interactive and Universal Studios revealed Turok: Origins, a third-person co-op shooter that marks the first new entry in the franchise since 2019. Origins doesn’t have a release date yet, but is being developed by the same studio that was behind...