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The spiritual successor to classic JRPG Wild Arms has seemingly been cancelled, four years after its Kickstarter raised nearly $3 million
The developers of Armed Fantasia had completed a vertical slice as of March this year.
The next retro games coming to Steam are a pair of extremely 1990s run-and-gunners where Spanish Goku fights mutants
In the 1990s, Spanish videogame label Gaelco was responsible for a string of arcade games (and also electronic dartboards) that hardly anyone outside Spain knows about, bar perhaps the occasional breakout like World Rally.
Steam stays winning, but why
We do a lot of thinking about digital storefronts here at PCG, and a great struggle is that we don't want to demonstrate too much bias in favor of Steam. But Valve's platform just does it better.
What’s in Steam’s global top sellers this week?
Steam's global top sellers are my Hit Parade. Dropping back 3 places this week is Dota 2, hanging in at number 10 in its 460th week in the charts. Did you know Mr. Brightside by The Killers has held the UK pop charts in a stranglehold for the last 520(!) weeks? A new entry at number 9 for Dressmaker. More than just another shop sim, this is serious seamstress simulation. Fashion hasn't been this much fun since Bowie. Rocketing up 58 places to number 8 is Total War: Warhammer 3, thanks to its latest single, Lords of the End Times.
Between 70 and 80% of Blood Bowl 3 games were solo
You'll know this frustration if you've ever been part of the community around a game that has both singleplayer and multiplayer modes. People who prefer one to the other are always convinced the other cohort doesn't exist. "Nobody plays this game in a different way to me and my friends, and anyone who says they do is lying."
Portrait mode
It was Pathfinder: Kingmaker's eighth birthday yesterady, so I'd like to shout out one of my all-time favorite bits of fantasy character art. This Orc assassin portrait basically captured my go-to, home base character for every fantasy RPG: I like being sneaky, I like doing DPS with a short sword or two, and I like orcs.
What’s the weirdest thing that happened to you in a tabletop RPG?
Miraculous rolls, insane GMs, tables being flipped over—I want it all.
The Elder Scrolls Online’s devs are pushing through hard times: ‘We still love this game’
A year of terrible layoffs isn’t enough to kill Zenimax Online’s fighting spirit, just yet.
Dressmaker is a serious seamstress sim with a lot of love stitched into the finer details
Here are my five favorite features from the sewing game.
The cure for missing old electronics
I've found the cure for missing classic electronics with buttons and dials and LEDs and cool stuff like vacuum tubes. Unfortunately, it's pretty expensive, and other people will most likely be indifferent to your pursuit of this hobby, which you will practice alone, for yourself, possibly next to a potted plant. It's synthesizers.
Konami had the best booth at TGS 2 years in a row
Konami really goes all-out for Tokyo Game Show. It had the coolest booth at the convention two years in a row on the strength of extremely good cosplay. Last year it was thanks to the perfectly creepy student from Silent Hill f, while this year Castlevania got the spotlight. I shot a quick video of the actor playing Belmont's Curse protagonist Rose Belmont, but other times I walked by there were actors for Trevor Belmont and Dracula giving their best runway looks.
I did the math on my Wardogs XP grind, and now I wish I hadn’t
The Wardogs grind is real, and kind of exhausting.
My first MMO character #8: Mollie Taylor
My first MMO character was... Brown Cat Born: Oh god, er, 2005, probably? Game: Toontown Online I wasn't cool enough to be playing World of Warcraft or RuneScape. No, instead I was throwing pies and squirting gag flowers across the blindingly bright, Disney-themed streets of Toontown Online. It was the House of Mouse's stab at an MMO for children. Ironically, one all about defeating giant, greedy corporations and rescuing small businesses from the "cogs" that would take over and turn their colourful storefronts into lifeless grey towers.
What insiders say Halo Studios was up to before losing Halo: ‘The next Halo game was years away’
In the wake of Microsoft gutting Halo Studios to a skeleton crew and passing off the series to Activision, new reports from insiders tell a believable story about what was happening in Halo Studios as the plug got pulled. The accounts come from The Verge's Tom Warren (longtime Microsoft beat writer) and YouTuber Rebs Gaming (whose sources within the Halo machine are often accurate).
Shokz OpenRun Air 2 Bone Conduction Review
The Shokz OpenRun Air 2 Bone Conduction is an open-ear headset, designed with sports and fitness in mind. As with its predecessor, the original Shokz OpenRun Bone Conduction, it uses only bone conduction drivers, as opposed to the hybrid (dynamic/bone conduction) driver setup seen in some of the brand's recent offerings. This iteration also features improvements when it comes to battery life, as well as companion app connectivity for expanded customization possibilities.
I feel like I’m running a corner store in Dredd or Cyberpunk 2077
Papers, Please: Your decisions as a shopkeeper have an effect. If you spot someone on the wanted list coming in to your store, you can report them to security for a reward—but keep in mind they may be members of the resistance fighting against the cruel dystopia.
My first MMO character #8: Jessica Kinghorn
My first MMO character was... Sakura-Lola Born: 2004? Maybe? Game: RuneScape As a child who was not willing to try to convince their parents to send money to a strange company on a monthly basis, I had resigned myself to looking at MMOs like Final Fantasy XI longingly from afar. After being introduced by my best friend, the browser-based RuneScape was it for me…well, at least until we got a bit older and began devoting all of our time to Gaia Online.
For Warhorse’s 15th birthday, we chatted with its co-founder about the demand for ‘grown-up’ RPGs, AI, why games are too cheap, and his role in the collapse of communism
Just a regular convo, then.
I made the hot dog vendors in GTA 5 work because Rockstar never did
Higher body count than I was expecting.
This pro player told me why he ditched the Superstrike for the Superlight
I found yxngstxr's candidness fantastic, here, considering we were at a Logitech G Play event when he said these words to me—an event surrounding the launch of the X3 Superstrike, no less. I trusted what he was saying: he liked the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike and tried it for a while, but found it inconsistent, and had heard about it having a front-weighted balance.
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