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For PC Gamer magazine’s upcoming The Blood of Dawnwalker issue, I flew out to Warsaw to visit developer Rebel Wolves and speak to a number of its key devs, including founder Konrad Tomaszkiewicz: Best-known for being the director of The Witcher 3, one of gaming’s greatest ever fantasy RPG experiences. Tomaszkiewicz also worked as a… Continue reading The Witcher 3’s director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: ‘We had crazy ideas’

The biggest fight in Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 lasts an entire episode. It’s almost exhausting to watch, so stuffed with over-the-top animation that you could put it on repeat for hours and still catch new details each time. That action blowout is the most exciting part of an uneven season, but the moment I keep… Continue reading The animator behind some of Castlevania’s greatest moments racked up another instant classic with Nocturne Season 2’s most intense scene

The headquarters of League of Legends and Valorant developer Riot Games is a large office complex in Santa Monica, not far from the Palisades neighborhood that has been flattened by one of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires that started last week. Those offices have been closed since the start of the fires—which still haven’t been… Continue reading As the LA fires raged, Riot Games provided a generator to a fire station that lost power and donated meals from its employee cafeteria

Path of Exile 2 can be punishing. Compared to PoE 1, player characters are more fragile. Monsters hit harder, and they’ve got movement collision—if you get cornered, you can get surrounded so thoroughly that no amount of dodge rolling will help you. With this Titan build devised by YouTuber Panzerfaust, however, there’s a simple solution… Continue reading This Path of Exile 2 build simply opts out of danger by keeping nearby enemies permanently frozen in time

Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere (another name for HoYoverse) has agreed to pay a $20 million fine and will block children under the age of 16 from making in-game purchases without parental consent in settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and “deceived children… Continue reading FTC says Genshin Impact ‘deceived children’ and orders its publisher to pay a $20 million fine and stop selling loot boxes to kids

Need some Wordle tips? We’ve got a great bunch ready to help you out. Don’t need tips? Then you’re bound to find our clue for the January 10 (1301) game a real help. Still not sure how you’re going to turn this puzzle around in the rows you’ve got left? That’s why today’s answer is… Continue reading Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, January 10

If you’ve been spending all your time over the holidays playing the early access release of Path of Exile 2, you may be eagerly awaiting some substantial patch notes. We’ve all got our own gripes with the game, which despite an excellent skeleton still needs a lot of work. Thankfully, after weeks of radio silence… Continue reading We may not have a roadmap or balance patch just yet, but at least Path of Exile 2’s bugfix patch notes are funny

The finale of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided wasn’t much-loved by fans, which was surprising because you’d think Deus Ex: Human Revolution would have lowered expectations. But it’s like the classic bad restaurant joke, where the food’s terrible and what’s worse, the portions are small. Mankind Divided’s climax wasn’t just an underwhelming battle against a guy… Continue reading Deus Ex: Mankind Divided writer didn’t like the ending either: ‘Nothing is resolved’

There may be no better use case for the reaction guys than the 2015 E3 announcement of Final Fantasy 7 Remake—screams, meltdowns, tears of joy—and the 2021 release of the stuttery PC version of that same game: screams, meltdowns, tears of bitter disappointment. It was a shamefully barebones release of what should have been a… Continue reading It seems like Square’s finally consistently taking the PC ports of Final Fantasy seriously

When Remedy announces a new game, I expect three things: A protagonist wearing street clothes, third-person shooting, and a pistol. FBC: Firebreak, a first-person co-op Control spinoff, has none of that, and that’s incredibly exciting. We haven’t heard much about Firebreak other than its 2025 release window, but in a recent interview with GamesRadar, Remedy… Continue reading The most important tool in Remedy’s new co-op FPS is the shower: ‘Saving water is essential’

As we’ve reported previously, despite holding executive roles in multiple major corporations and undertaking the busy work of burrowing himself in incoming political regimes, Elon Musk manages to find time to boast some impressive gaming laurels, claiming to hold high placements in Diablo 4 leaderboards and Path of Exile 2 hardcore league rankings. This week,… Continue reading Path of Exile 2 players are calling foul on Elon Musk’s high-level hardcore character after he streams his struggles with core game mechanics

Alan Emrich, a designer and writer of board games and videogames credited with coming up with the term “4X” to describe sprawling, empire-building strategy games, has died. Emrich’s death was reported by friends in a forum post on the wargaming community website ConsimWorld. Emrich was a notable figure in the world of boardgaming: His bio… Continue reading Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term ‘4X,’ has died

Relic Entertainment’s 2004 and 2009 real-time strategy magnum opuses, Dawn of War and Dawn of War 2, have been re-released as anniversary editions for their 15th and 20th years of real-time-strategerizing. The new anniversary editions, available on Steam, include all the DLC and extras released for the two games over the years. That’s especially nice… Continue reading Dawn of War 1 and 2 have been re-released as anniversary editions including all the DLC

What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found while cleaning out your garage or a relative’s storage unit? For former game developer Chad Jessup, it’s probably the beta version of the original Half-Life he uncovered this month, now shared to the Internet Archive by videogame preservation enthusiast Reagan for all to enjoy. Jessup’s industry credits include… Continue reading A veteran developer found a beta build of Half-Life in his storage unit and has made it available for anyone to download