Screamer’s multiplayer chases unleash the racer’s full chaotic potential, trapping you inside a relentlessly boosty, bashy, and boomy washing machine
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…
You can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect
Condiment, meet cooling.
You're missing out on getting Marathon's best loot for free because it's hidden in a menu
A free WSTR? Thank you, Arachne.
"0.63 is the perfect default delay": Bungie, Respawn and Firaxis game developers talk NPC barks, grenade timing and other questions of craft
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…
How to get the Silver Fang wolf mount in Crimson Desert
Plus how to unlock the Legendary Wolf quest.
Pearl Abyss says to roll back your GPU driver if you're struggling to get Crimson Desert working on your ROG Xbox Ally X
Though a fix is seemingly in the works.
Grab my favourite ever Lovecraftian TTRPG along with a huge range of adventures and supplements for an amazing price this week
Trail of Cthulhu offers a unique take on horror investigation and some of the most authentically Lovecraftian writing in the whole hobby.
Disney Dreamlight Valley's next free update releases next month, and it'll add Pocahontas
Paint with all the colours of the wind.
Indie studio co-founder believes 'nobody cares about' huge open worlds anymore instead devs should pick just one thing and do it 'exceptionally well'
I'm certainly feeling that big game burnout.
Jack Black would be up for playing a 'portly American' if there's another live-action Yakuza movie: 'Sega, give me a jingle'
He's really trying to rack up those videogame adaptation credits.
This week in PC games: an RTS inspired by Majesty, a flying city RPG from former Mass Effect writers, and one Metal Gear-affiliated octopus
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…
MacBook Neo review
Apple's cheap laptop struggles to rise to the occasion, but remains an impressive little machine.
From a dentist's basement to half a trillion dollars and AI: Here's how memory manufacturer Micron Technology got there
Just call me the 'Potato Consumer Gamer' from now on.
Yes, some DDR5 RAM prices have dropped recently—but I wouldn't pop the champagne just yet
Good RAM is still eye-wateringly expensive, but some of the discounts are back at the very least.
Epic's mass layoffs left a programmer with terminal brain cancer without life insurance, but Tim Sweeney says the company will "solve" the problem
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…
WoW to get an official pride event, based on a community run that's raised money for 12 years
We be runnin', mon.
How to use Hernand Refinement Tokens in Crimson Desert
Always use your coupons, people.
"It is meant to be lived in" - grand strategy game Riftborne offers "months" of galactic scheming and no actual graphics
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…
Crimson Desert's latest patch adds new mounts, makes slapping NPCs with trees a crime, and reportedly junks the infamous AI paintings
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…
Batman: Arkham Origins has a graphics mod that looks like a remaster
My third-favorite Batman: Arkham game is looking a lot slicker.