If there’s one thing about Paradox Interactive’s big PC strategy games, it’s that they’re nearly always fantastic. And if there are two things, it’s that they quickly become bogged down with hundreds of dollars worth of DLC that looks absolutely daunting to any potential new players. Take, for example, Europa Universalis IV, which is very…
Rakan Khamash is an artist at Blizzard. You can see more of Rakan’s stuff at his ArtStation page
H. P. Lovecraft was a very talented writer whose Cthulhu mythos is one of the absolute great works of modern fiction. He was also—and this is something very few companies profiting off his works will acknowledge—a massive racist. I’m not talking about “oh, this was the old days, he had some antiquated views like a…
The brutalist supernatual adventure and the brutal ’90s shooter have little in common, but this custom map by willkuerAT combines them as an exploration of Control’s exquisite architecture. It’s made for GZDoom, hence the prettiness, and it’s using custom textures to get the look just right. Thanks Philip!
Deep space death simulator FTL has for almost eight years existed with a single achievement: avoiding a sense of overwhelming despair as your carefully-cultivated run through the stars comes to a violent and bullshit end. That’s soon going to be joined by some more official company. While not live yet, the game’s list of achievements…
Max Elmberg Sjöholm is an artist at Starbreeze. You can see more of Max’s stuff at his ArtStation page
Temtem is an MMO out this week that, in many and very obvious ways, is trying to be the kind of Pokémon game people have wanted for years but have never actually gotten. I mean, just look at this: And this! So, yes, Pokémon. Only you fight with two monsters at once instead of one,…
It’s all but forgotten now, but in 1999, Kingpin was kind of a big deal, pitched as an unashamedly adult first-person shooter that was going to be video gaming’s answer to Frank Miller’s Sin City That was the idea, anyway. And despite some notable press at the time—it even got a mention on the floor of…
This is Mary & Feinobi’s take on Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, with the suit made bespoke by Toph Cosplay/Art and photos by FOTO Roman Čierny
The good news is that Netflix just got the rights to stream pretty much every major Studio Ghibli release, from Totoro to Princess Mononoke to Ponyo. The bad news is that, if you’re in North America or Japan, that news doesn’t apply to you. Ghibli’s homeland has its own rights deals, and in North America…
This is HyperSpace: Pirates of Atira, an upcoming co-op indie space game where players take control of different aspects of a starship and try to work together to keep everyone alive. This kind of thing has of course been tried before, but the division of labour here seems really cool!
Simon Gocal is an artist at Massive, the studio behind games like The Division and World In Conflict You can see more of Simon’s stuff at his ArtStation page
The Witcher series has produced some pretty good games! Let’s not kid ourselves, though, and pretend every Witcher game has been an all-time great. Because that would mean you, like me, had forgotten all about The Witcher: Crimson Trail, released all the way back in 2007. It was a phone game developed by a third-party…
Xbox’s Adaptive Controller has done some amazing things as far as accessibility in video games goes, but the setup isn’t hard-wired to only work on a Microsoft console. It can, with a little work, also run on the Nintendo Switch, and in doing so bring an enormous smile to a little girl’s face. Rory Steel…
As Event Hubs report, this match last night between Guzman and SpaceDetectiveKH ends up stopping a few seconds in for what was assumed by all to be an intense staredown, born out of mutual respect between two fierece competitors before everyone realised that, oh, it was just a technical hiccup. Beautiful commentary in the lead-up,…
Victor Herranz is a 3D artist at Gameloft, who figured he’d combine two of the best games of 2017 in one character. You can see more of Victor’s stuff at his ArtStation page
A “young man” waiting at Portland International earlier today, perhaps bored as we all are by the drudgery of airports, figured he could just unpack his PS4 console, plug it into an airport information monitor and start playing some Apex Legends right there on the spot. Local radio station KXL(via The Oregonian) report that the…
Super Nintendo World is due to open in around six months time, which is why we’re starting toget stuff like big shiny music videos. For something a bit more real, though, let’s check out some aerial footage of the park under construction at Universal Studios Japan, see how things are coming along. For reference, the…
The new Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle does exactly what it says on the tin: it’s a massive collection of games (worth over $400) on sale right now and every single cent you spend goes directly to helping millions of animals affected by the crisis. The bundle’s recommended price is $25, which considering some of…
Hueala Teodor is an artist at Riot, the developers of League of Legends You can see more of Teodor’s stuff at his ArtStation page
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