The launch of heist-shooter Payday 3 last week has not gone well. Persistent server problems have frustrated players, and the game’s always-online requirement means that even people who want to play solo are having trouble getting into the game. The net result: A disastrous “mostly negative” user rating on Steam, where 68% of the nearly 25,000 user reviews are now thumbs down.
Developer S…
Read moreFinal Fantasy 14’s annual fan event was in full swing yesterday, and the announcements of new features—and trailers—from the Dawntrail expansion were coming pretty fast. The new Pictomancer was on display, the mystical painter joining FF14 as a magical ranged damage job.
The intelligence-based Pictomancer isn’t just pure damage, however, and has some abilities that buff its pa…
Read moreStardew Valley’s 1.6 update was supposed to be a relatively small thing, intended primarily to make life easier for modders rather than approaching the size of the feature-packed 1.5 update that once seemed like it would be Stardew Valley’s send-off. 1.6 has grown significantly in scope since then, to include things like “a major new festival,” new late-game content, new items and crafting reci…
Read moreSlay the Spire, the brilliant roguelike deckbuilder that first released in early access in 2017, is getting a sequel next year.
Slay the Spire 2 was announced with a teaser video, embedded above, at the Triple-I Initiative showcase today. It’s quite a glow up: A brief but sweet animated reintroduction to the Spire.
Near the end of the teaser, we see what I assume will be Slay the Sp…
Read moreAsus has been at pains to make clear that it was making the ROG Ally handheld gaming PC long before Valve launched its Steam Deck. Sure, it’s an AMD-powered PC console, just like Valve made, but Asus has released an image of a selection of different prototype models from the five years of iteration before settling on the Ally design. Just like Valve released.
The company has just unveiled…
Read moreIf you’ve been playing Alan Wake 2 you may have noticed just how pretty that game is. I’d go as far to say it’s the best looking videogame of 2023. Developer Remedy has done incredibly well to make what could’ve been a very dull and dark world look vibrant and detailed, and has since divulged what’s actually going on behind the scenes in the Northlight engine to achieve it. And boy, it…
Read moreAs revealed in the Summer Game Fest’s Day of the Devs presentation, the offbeat game collection UFO 50 is finally coming out on September 18. The quirky, alt gaming history throwback was originally slated to release all the way back in 2018, and it’s a collaboration between several successful indie developers including Spelunky creator Derek “Mossmouth” Yu and Ojiro Fumoto, the primary develope…
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Read moreI get the concept behind the way Bethesda designed Starfield’s food items. In the year 2330, humanity has become a spacefaring species, blasting across the galaxy in spaceships—and just as people are sealed inside spacesuits for protection, food is kept inside clear little plastic containers.
But there’s something unsatisfying about seeing a tasty chicken tikka, some crispy alien nu…
Read moreMore Reactive Companions is one of those mods that just makes sense: it takes a huge reserve of background dialogue lines already present in Baldur’s Gate 3 but exclusive to origin characters, and repurposes them as companion banter.
The fact that Baldur’s Gate 3 lets you play as any of its companions instead of a custom blank slate is sick, but I think most of us are rol…
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