Firaxis celebrates Civilization 7’s launch with the Civ World Summit, a live streamed five-way strategy showdown with ‘an exciting announcement’ planned
We’re weeks away from the launch of Civilization VII, officially PC Gamer’s Most Wanted game of 2025. We all intend to celebrate the game’s release in our own way. Personally, I’m thinking about conquering a small nation. Luxembourg perhaps, or possibly Andorra. Firaxis’ own plans for marking the occasion are less megalomaniacal, though conquest will […]
Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes ‘some pretty big changes’ to the game’s enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam
Hyper Light Breaker, Heart Machine’s 3D follow-up to moody action-adventure Hyper Light Drifter, smashed into Steam early access earlier this month. But the initial response to it has been less than stellar, with players complaining about specific issues like frame rate drops, lack of keybinding, and problems with the parry system, while generally being divided […]
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director says ‘I respect the modding community’ and uses mods himself, though he still thinks we shouldn’t use ones that ‘detract from the intended game experience’
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director Naoki Hamaguchi caused a stir last December when he asked modders “not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate” for the second part of the RPG’s remake, which just launched on PC. While he didn’t specify what was “offensive or inappropriate”, such a broad statement would certainly cover nude […]
The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month, providing access to over 1,500 videogame magazines and ‘never-before-seen game development materials’
The videogame industry doesn’t have the best track record at preserving its past, though this is slowly changing with the help of independent organisations. One such organisation is the Video Game History Foundation, which today announced it will be launching its digital library platform later this month. Posting on BlueSky, the VGHF revealed that the […]
Wordle today: Answer and hint #1317 for January 26
Cut straight to the best bit by clicking through to the answer to the January 26 (1317) Wordle. If that’s all a bit too much all at once for a Sunday puzzle session, feel free to sit a while with our hint for today’s game instead, designed to help without handing you today’s winning word […]
A Warhammer ‘live service RPG’ made in Unreal Engine 5 was apparently canceled after three years of development
Daniel Erickson, CCO of Thought Pennies studio, recently announced that staff had been laid off and an upcoming game canceled. “Over the last three years at Thought Pennies we built something amazing”, he wrote on LinkedIn. “We never missed a milestone, our feedback was great, our partnerships strong. We went from two people and a […]
After turning over a new, crypto-free leaf, Atari would like to stress that the meme currency ‘RealPongCoin’ does not have its ‘consent or approval’
On January 23, Atari put out a press release disavowing “RealPongCoin” or “$PONG,” a new crypto meme coin whose account on X, “The Everything App,” was launched that same day. Though the company was once poised to go all-in on crypto and NFTs itself, Atari has since shuttered that side of the business and refocused […]
Every prestige blockbuster game should have Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s fast-forward option
I don’t trust Square Enix to program worthwhile mouse-and-keyboard controls so I don’t know which key fast-forward is assigned to, but I can tell you it’s the right trigger on my controller, and that finishing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has probably halved the lifespan of that trigger. Obviously I keep it held in whenever Chadley […]
ConcernedApe isn’t ruling out future updates to Stardew Valley: ‘Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something’
In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of […]
Vermintide 2’s still getting free maps added to it, with the latest being an elven temple and a warpstone nuke factory
While the big Vermintide 2 news last year was the addition of PVP in Versus mode, the PVE side of things is still being catered for. Its latest addition is Verminous Dreams, a campaign of linked maps that pits the Ubersreik Five against their old enemies the skaven once again. The first two of its […]
I paid money to drive a real car that filled up with fumes when I didn’t pump the pedal, and it’s all because I loved Jalopy
I’m reaching between my knees to yank at the column-mounted gear lever of a tiny, cramped car that owners were so desperate to leave behind, they abandoned them in the streets of Prague en masse. How did I get here? The short answer is Jalopy. The idiosyncratic 2018 simulator, in which you drive and maintain […]
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth’s computer
Here’s some videogame news you don’t see every day. The Royal Shakespeare Company, known mainly for its contemporary adaptations of the Bard’s plays, has announced a video game adaptation of MacBeth. Titled Lili, the game is a modern “screen-life thriller” in which players experience Shakespeare’s bloodiest story through Lady MacBeth’s personal devices. According to a […]