Turns Out PC Gamers Really Want To Play Games With Sailing Ships

Take a look at the Steam charts today and you’ll see right near the very top, above a new Five Nights at Freddy’s game, above even the terrific Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, is something called Naval Action We first saw this game last year and I got a little excited (because: sails), but it’s now…

The PS4’s Tomorrow Children Looks Beautifully Bizarre

With minutes to spare, I jumped into the Tomorrow Children closed beta this morning. I didn’t have enough time to get my head around Q Games’ Communist-kitsch, co-op, resource-mining/town-building game, but I did have time to grab some screens. The closed beta will resume in the coming days. I’ll definitely be playing. To contact the…

GTA V Player Finds Parking

Today on Highlight Reel we have bubbles galore, GTA V parking, shield trouble, underwater physics, and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Rocket League –…

The Complicated, Messy Future Of Esports

It’s hard to recognize a tipping-point until it’s come and gone. This year, like every other year since 2011 or 2012, esports are poised to break through into the mainstream. But with companies like Turner set to broadcast a Counter-Strike league on TBS (the unfortunately-named ELEAGUE), and ESPN getting into esports coverage, esports have already…

Comparing How “Strategic” Strategy Games Actually Are

Strategy games can be exciting. They can be…strategic. They can be easy, they can be hard. You might not have ever wanted to see some of the biggest games in the genre compared across these metrics—I’d never thought of it—but seeing them mapped out is pretty interesting! Yes, this is one of those infographics-fronting-as-advertisement kinda…

Nintendo Removes Controversial Scene From English Version Of Fire Emblem Fates

When Fire Emblem Fates launched in Japan last year, there was controversy over a scene that was perceived as homophobic. Nintendo says that part won’t be in the English version. The aforementioned scene sees the player character (you) use a “magic powder” to make Soleil, a woman who’s into women, like men. Or rather, it…

How Sony Stopped A Vita Port From Being Canned

Stoic Games is a tiny developer. While their Viking-inspired strategy game The Banner Saga became a hit, they didn’t have the bandwidth to port it themselves, so they found another studio to handle the game coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Vita. Unfortunately, that studio went bankrupt. Back in December, Stoic technical director John Watson…

Counter-Strike Team Quits After Allegedly Being Asked To Throw Matches

Valve recently made itself abundantly clear in matters of Counter-Strike match fixing: if you’re involved in a thrown match, you’re banned from Valve-sponsored events for life. One team claims they were asked by their owner to do it anyway. So they quit. The team—now known as “Orgless”—was briefly under the financial wing of CSGO.one, a…

Ark: Survival Evolved On Xbox One: Looks Awful, Runs Terribly, Still Fun

A couple of days ago, technical experts confirmed that the Xbox One version of Ark: Survival Evolved runs like ass. The report came fromEurogamer’s Digital Foundry columnists, who recorded a video of the early access (aka unfinished) survival game and found the Xbox One version desperately wanting. You can watch that videohere, but I’ll summarize.…

Necropolis—Harebrained Schemes’ roguelike dungeon-crawler with the cool abstracted art style—will be hitting Steam on March 17. There’s going to be four-player co-op, too, so maybe you’ll all live a little longer. Contact the author at [email protected]

Westport Independent Is An Intense Game About Censoring The News

The name’s Narcisse. Yeah, numbnuts, I’ve heard all the jokes. I’m a newspaperman. No matter how hard I try every night, I can’t scrub the newsprint off my palms. Problem is, the bastard politicians running Westport are threatening to add bloodstains to all that ink. Out today from indie studio Double Zero One Zero for…

Mortal Kombat X’s PC Players Are Getting the Shaft

Mortal Kombat X was’t very good on the PC. While not the outright disaster that Batman: Arkham Knight was, it was still plagued with technical problems. A community still formed around the fighting sequel, but Warner Bros. and NetherRealm are cutting ties with PC players; there will be no more DLC for it. The PC…