Hollow Knight incites a bit of debate around the site. As John brought up in his review last year: what do you do with a game that is genuinely good but rather unoriginal? It’s a Metroidvania game that a lot of us picked up because it was simply the most recent Metroidvania game, and that’s […]
If all goes well, later this year we will finally be treated to an actual Harry Potter MMORPG in the form of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. While that will be a mobile ARG in the vein of Pokemon Go, it will still be a big step into the online space that MMO fans have been craving for nearly two decades...
The Binding of Isaac Co-Creator Edmund McMillen has revealed that the upcoming turn-based puzzle game The Legend of Bum-bo will release sometime this year. Speaking in a Tumblr post, McMillen gave…
A proper modding community can keep a game world alive long after the studio behind that title has put it to pasture. Or, more accurately in this case, when the studio just keeps porting the original game to new devices instead of, you know, making new entries. Skyrim has some of the most in-depth world […]
Assassin’s Creed Origins has received a free update on PC in the form of the Animus Control Panel, Ubisoft has announced. Originally revealed back in early April 2018, the Animus…
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a roguelike inspired by Darkest Dungeon, the party-based dungeon crawler from 2016, and I can think of worse games to emulate. Darkest Dungeon's blend of party management and turn-based combat was majestic, and Iratus aims to do the same, except that instead of looking after a group of adventurers you're cobbling together an army of undead from the body parts of vanquished foes.
After several years languishing on the sidelines, real-time strategy is mounting a serious comeback these days, and the revival is bringing fresh ideas to the genre that had for a long time become dominated by StarCraft. Take Golem Gates, and indie RTS from Laser Guided Games - it’s a fairly classic take on RTS action, but using a cooldown-based deckbuilding system for unit creation.
Here's our picks for the best strategy games available on PC.
As the Harbinger, you use “glyphs” - or cards - to summon creatures and use powers drawn from nanites leftover in the Ash, the destroyed remains of a war-torn world. Golem Gates does away with the traditional RTS building and economy, and pushes that element of strategy into the deck building of the metagame.
Rockstar Games has released a new version of Grand Theft Auto V. The updated version, titled Grand Theft Auto V: Premium Online Edition, bundles together Grand Theft Auto V with…
It may be hard to believe, but it has already been about four years since SOE decided to close down the troubled yet cult favorite Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. On July 31, 2014, the game world went dark, and many players found themselves saying farewell to Telon for good. While I was not a regular player of Vanguard, I did...
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is just over two weeks away, and I can't wait. The first game was an homage to classic RPGs like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment, and that was part of why players loved it so much. But the man in charge of directing it, Obsidian's Josh Sawyer, says that the genre needs to be more "radical", and that both Pillars 1 and 2 are "contributing to the problem" of a lack of innovation.