Issue #272

NEWS Link to heading

Epic Games Store has more PC players than ever - 295 million, in fact

Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anyway

Ex-CDPR devs’ new open-world vampire RPG is aiming for “the quality level of The Witcher 3,” but since it’s a smaller studio, only about a 30-40 hour campaign

DICE Awards 2025 winners announced

Marvel Rivals Developer Says There’s Currently No Plan for a PvE Mode

Hearthstone moves into the Year of the Raptor with a trio of expansions and an arena update

Nintendo comments on potential future impacts on its business from US tariffs

Xbox to show Nintendo and PlayStation logos in all future showcases

Valve released an official Steam Deck booklet, and it’s so darn neat

Viktor Antonov, the visionary artist who defined Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died

Ubisoft Announces Siege X, the ‘Biggest Transformation’ in Rainbow Six Siege History

Nintendo is Discontinuing its Gold Points System on April 24

Xbox Game Pass Wave 2 Titles for February 2025 Revealed

Bloomberg: Niantic in talks to sell games unit to Scopely Inc

Amazon Games Couldn’t Beat Steam As It “Underestimated” The Platform

Valve releases Team Fortress 2 source code, opening door to completely new fan-made games

Elon Musk Wants To ‘Make Revolutionary Video Games Using AI’

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down Campaign Will Be Free To Play

The Last of Us HBO Series Season 2 Premieres April 13

Dota 2’s 7.38 “Wandering Waters” Update Just Flipped the Meta

GTA 5 gets new PC version that adds PS5 and Xbox Series X/S features for free

A video game that helps you find more video games

REVIEWS Link to heading

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Elden Ring: The Board Game

FEATURES Link to heading

Ōkami 2 — Capcom, Hideki Kamiya, and Machine Head Discuss Hotly Anticipated Sequel in Exclusive Interview

Fishing minigames are the worst and I’m not afraid to say it

Avowed succeeds where Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed: An actionized, beginner-friendly entry point to a long-running series that doesn’t sacrifice its identity

How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal

Does art need to be ‘fixed’?

23 years later, classic cyberpunk MMO inspired by Deus Ex is somehow still alive

Does anyone really want long games any more?

Craftlings Hands-on Preview – Terraria Meets Lemmings With Laid-Back Style

Shuhei Yoshida looks back at 31 years at Sony PlayStation | exit interview

How Rainbow Six Siege Remains a Top Esports Game 10 Years Later

Stardew Valley on iOS: A Comprehensive Guide for Mobile Farmers

This co-op RPG is coming for World of Warcraft’s best feature and it’s not even an MMO

Avowed’s in-dialogue glossary isn’t that new, really—it’s just somehow not industry-standard yet, though it could solve the ‘amnesiac/prisoner RPG protagonist’ problem forever

RoadCraft isn’t just another demanding offroad sim for petrol heads – it sated my desire to micromanage production lines too

The best free PC games

Obsidian’s modest ambition with Avowed is just what Game Pass, Xbox, and the wider industry needs - but will Microsoft let them stick to it?

I’ve been playing AAA sports games like management sims, and I couldn’t be happier

Solasta 2 is perfectly poised to fill a Baldur’s Gate 3 void

PUBG Creator’s Next Game Is Very Different But Even More Ambitious

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an old-school technical success on PC

Ray tracing is quickly becoming inescapable and I think it’s time we bit the bullet and embraced it

Solasta 2 Preview: It’ll Get Recognized in a Post-Baldur’s Gate 3 World, But it Must Do More

In this house, any game can be a co-op game

PlayerUnknown’s Prologue: Go Wayback is an enchanting exploration sim tossed on a sea of metaverse imagineering

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Any good games where I cam just feel invincible and destroy the enemies

What’s the old game you keep coming back to, time and time again?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Dune: Awakening — Release Date Reveal Trailer

Metal Eden: 20 minutes of gameplay | Stevivor

Here’s Skyrim with 3500+ mods at 8K on an NVIDIA RTX 5090

MINSK Gameplay Demo 4K (New Post-Apocalyptic Horror Game 2025)

Mecharashi - Official Cinematic Trailer

The Epic Fight With The Crimson Desert Staglord

Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 6 Season 2 - LAWLESS | Cinematic Gameplay Trailer

FUNNY Link to heading

Frank Reynolds em Cyberpunk 2077

Bro can reload anything

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

Power of Marketing in Gaming: How SEO Drives Player Engagement

Bafta is taking applications for its Young Game Designers competition