Zekvir’s Lair is a delve in World of Warcraft: The War Within with one of the most difficult pieces of solo content since the game’s Mage Tower challenges. The ultimate boss of the game’s new short, soloable-dungeons, or Delves, Zekvir has a small mountain of health (195 million at the Continue Reading
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Call of Duty’s most despised weapon is skipping Black Ops 6
That Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta last month didn’t totally sell me on the next 12 months of CoD, but the fact that Treyarch is leaving one of the most annoying, disliked weapons behind is scoring some points with me. For the first time in years, Call of Continue Reading
’90s action horror game Undeadline is the quintessential Halloween shmup: Brains, beauty, blood, and a nice thick slice of cheese
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: T & E Soft Released: 1989-1991 Platforms: MSX2, X68000, Mega Drive (Image credit: Mobygames, T&ESoft) It’s spooky season, and what better Continue Reading
Hi-Rez Studios is closing 2 games as it continues to refocus on Smite 2
Hi-Rez Studios has announced the upcoming closure of two of its games, Divine Knockout and Realm Royale Reforged, which will be taken offline in February 2025. The pending shutdowns come less than a month after the studio laid off an unspecified number of employees, saying at the time that the Continue Reading
Twitch silently stopped sign ups from both Israel and Palestine for over a year, gets caught out, says it was all ‘to prevent uploads of graphic material’
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has now spread into Lebanon and threatens to further destabilise the Middle East, has dominated global news coverage since the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. Recently, Twitch banned the popular user Asmongold following a racist anti-Palestinian rant, which thanks to his Continue Reading
Silent Hill 2 remake patch improves performance but sadly stops James teleporting through peepholes and falling into the void
What’s your favourite part of Silent Hill 2? Mine has to be James Sunderland’s various superpowers: Teleportation, phasing through walls, psychosexual yearning, all the abilities he got after he was bitten by a radioactive widower. They’re what make him such a potent horror game protagonist but, alas, apparently the first Continue Reading
Valve says its ‘not really fair to your customers’ to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it’s waiting ‘for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life’
Valve Deck duo, Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, have been doing the press rounds recently as Australia is finally getting itself a proper Steam Deck release in that territory. As part of that, Yang and Aldehayyat have had to field the now-standard questions about a potential Steam Deck 2. Unsurprisingly, Continue Reading
Multiplayer focus aside, the Steam Next Fest demo charts reveal the weird unpredictability of PC gaming
The millionth Steam Next Fest of the year is coming to an end—don’t worry, it’ll be back before you even have time to uninstall all the demos—and a quick glimpse of the charts might leave you a bit down in the dumps if you’re tired of multiplayer games sucking all Continue Reading
Logitech G Pro 2 Lightspeed Review
Logitech has a somewhat confusing lineup right now, with the G Pro 2 Lightspeed intended to replace the old Pro and the X Superlight 2 Dex intended to go alongside the standard Superlight 2. They are familiar designs to anyone accustomed to Logitech, and this is both the biggest selling Continue Reading
‘Please try not to binge it’: Vampire Survivors finally releases a Castlevania DLC with 20 new characters, 40 new weapons, and ‘a monstrously large stage’
It’s no secret that Vampire Survivors takes a hell of a lot of inspiration from Castlevania. In its early days, players even accused the developer, Luca Galante, of ripping off certain Castlevania sprites, which Galante later confirmed were actually from asset packs (even if they were almost like a mirror Continue Reading