Another Stab At First-Person Sword Combat

Mordhau is the latest attempt to try and get first-person melee controls working properly in a video game. If you think it looks like Chivalry, you’re not alone. I had to check that this wasn’t just a rebadged update for the cult melee game. But no, this is new, and while it’s promising to have…

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Is Now On Steam

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron on the Nintendo 64 was the first game that made me feel like I was really soaring through a Star Wars movie, my X-Wing buoyed by glorious trumpets and gentle flecks of Bantha poodoo. Now it’s on Steam. The arcade-y flight game, originally released on Nintendo 64 and PC back in…

The Division’s NYC vs Google Maps’ NYC

As anyone who’s both played The Division and been to New York can instantly recognise, the developers did a pretty good job nailing the look and feel of the city’s streets. Which is cool for tourists and residents, but what about cartographers? For those concerned with the accuracy of the game’s map (and mission placement…

16-Year-Old Hacker Sneaks Game Onto Steam Without Valve’s Approval

Watch Paint Dry is a 45-second-long game about watching paint dry. It was made by a 16 year-old guy who’s not even a game developer. Despite not going through Greenlight or otherwise receiving Valve’s holy lambda of approval, it got onto the Steam store. This might sound like the beginning of a horror story—an odious…

Wing Commander II Took Its Installation Guide Very Seriously

You know how these days you just download your PC games, maybe tweak a few settings? As Redditor FhjullForkedTongue points out, back in 1991 PC game installation was a bit more intense. DIRE WARNINGS FOLLOW. Back then buying a PC game was the beginning of an adventure fraught with danger. How many disks would have…

VR Game At A Glance: The Freaky Spy Puzzle Game Esper 2

I sit down when I play VR games, so I like it when the character I’m playing is also sitting. Turns out I also like it when the character I’m playing has telekinesis. In the stylish puzzle game Esper 2, you play as a telekinetic spy who sits. Best of both worlds! Here’s a quick…

Pro Counter-Strike Team Wins Round Using Only Tasers, The Game’s Riskiest Weapon

Counter-Strike’s Zeus taser is a very particular weapon. It’ll down anybody in a single shot, but it’s for use at extremely close ranges, and it can only fire once. In a moment of apparent mania, one team, Selfless, purchased only Zeuses in a round of a pro match. They won. It was the second game…

A Small Way To Spice Up The Division’s Endgame

Lately, my time with The Division has dwindled. That’s partly because I’ve had other games to play, but mostly because I’ve lost interest in the endgame grind. I still fundamentally like playing the game, so I’ve been looking for ways to spice things up. Maybe you’re in the same boat? If so, perhaps you’ve resorted…

Awful New Look for Ken and Hidden Costumes Discovered in Street Fighter V DLC Update

The first part of the March update for Street Fighter V has already hit, bringing new modes and improvements to Capcom’s latest fighting game. It’s also got some stuff players aren’t supposed to be able to see, including a new alternate look for Ken that is definitely not an upgrade. The earlier part of this…

The Worst Ways To Die In Dark Souls

There are many ways to die in the Souls games. These are the worst. With Dark Souls 3 coming out in two weeks—sooner, if you’re lucky—it’s got me in a contemplative mood about the series. Beating Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, and Bloodborne count among my greatest gaming accomplishments, but that didn’t come…

VR Game At A Glance: The Surprisingly Good Action RPG Chronos

There’s no official VR version of Dark Souls (yet), which leaves the door open for Chronos, a very cool Oculus Rift launch game that manages to be both a VR showcase and a good game on its own. Here’s a short video of me playing through the first proper level: What it is: Chronos is…

It’s a small, blocky world. LEGO has officially unveiled its eagerly-anticipated line of Disney minigiures. The 18 figures will be available in blind bag form this May.

Killer Instinct’s Season Three Saves The Most Exciting Addition For Later

New fighters, balance changes and the launch of the Windows 10 version of Killer Instinct are nice and all, but its the single-player Shadow Lords game mode coming later in the year that excites me most about Killer Instinct season three. Battletoad Rash, barbarian Tusk, former teen fighter Kim Wu and Halo’s Arbiter headline the…

The Game I Played When I Was Scared To Death of Being Deported

Amidst the pushcart vendors selling bacon-wrapped hot-dogs, religious leaders blasting damning sermons over megaphones, and the homeless wandering around the city, there is one San Francisco fixture most people don’t know about—not even the locals. It’s not a bridge or a winding street or anything like that: I’m talking about certain folk who roam San…

The New Tomb Raider DLC Looks Like an Homage to Resident Evil 4

So far, Lara Croft has battled mercenaries, wild animals and ancient mystical warriors in Rise of the Tomb Raider. Today, she starts fighting against enemies that used to be human but are now more like feral animals. The Cold Darkness Awakened add-on comes to Rise of the Tomb Raider today, bringing with it bipedal humanoids…