When James and I published our impressions of anime racer Screamer the other week, I mentioned I was keen to give its online races a go once it’d pulled out of the garage. Would the sights and sounds of sliding around its twisty tracks and slamming into real people make for as much fun as I’d…
Condiment, meet cooling.
A free WSTR? Thank you, Arachne.
Much of the time, using social media is like fondling a wasp's nest, but sometimes, sometimes, social media is Nice. For example, Firaxis narrative director Cat Manning recently started a Bluesky thread "of small practical pieces of advice developers just starting out or unfamiliar with a genre…
Plus how to unlock the Legendary Wolf quest.
Though a fix is seemingly in the works.
Trail of Cthulhu offers a unique take on horror investigation and some of the most authentically Lovecraftian writing in the whole hobby.
Paint with all the colours of the wind.
I'm certainly feeling that big game burnout.
He's really trying to rack up those videogame adaptation credits.
Hello, new week of PC games! Hey, I thought you'd be taller. Ah, I see what's happened: the Maw has eaten Friday again, and swallowed next Monday for good measure. As ever, the normies are calling this a "bank holiday weekend". There are various festivities planned - apparently, some bunny has been…
Apple's cheap laptop struggles to rise to the occasion, but remains an impressive little machine.
Just call me the 'Potato Consumer Gamer' from now on.
Good RAM is still eye-wateringly expensive, but some of the discounts are back at the very least.
Epic Games' mass layoffs led a programmer with terminal brain cancer to lose his life insurance, leaving him and his family struggling to find new coverage. Following news of the situation breaking, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has said the company have reached out to the programmer - Mike Prinke - and…
We be runnin', mon.
Always use your coupons, people.
Some people like to ease into the week, as though dipping toes into a frigid northern sea, and some people Monday Hard by wrapping their arms around an iceberg. Are you the latter kind of bather? Try this on for size, then: Riftborne is a real-time sci-fi grand strategy game that's controlled using…
Pearl Abyss' bashing of their massive open-world into a more palatable shape continues, with Crimson Desert's latest patch packing a bunch more tweaks to controls and adding some new animals to ride around on. It also looks to have begun swapping out those AI paintings the studio previously claimed…
My third-favorite Batman: Arkham game is looking a lot slicker.