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Highguard is, in many ways, my most-anticipated game of January. Its distinct lack of post-reveal marketing intrigued me, and the idea of a high fantasy extraction FPS game certainly feels very Lauren. It didn’t exactly wow me at The Game Awards, however, feeling somewhat like a chimera of the myriad shooters we’ve seen release over the past few years. The response to its launch has been equally lukewarm, and the internet generally appears divided. While Steam says that 37% of players have left a positive review, if you filter by playtime (we looked at reviews that had logged more than…
The X-Men are about to embark on one of their weirdest adventures ever in X-Men Annual #1, which pits them against a villain known as The Creationist with power over “imagination itself.” The team will venture into a drawing to defeat the villains, appearing as unfinished pencil drawings among a fully rendered world.X-Men Annual #1 is written by Ryan Stegman and drawn by lead artist Steve Skroce along with additional pages from Sanford Greene and Stegman himself.We’ve got your first look at pages from the annual here by Skroce, showing off the members of the Uncanny X-Men alongside special guest…
A thing that was quite endearing, perhaps the main appeal even, about the early internet was how it was a place you could go to, with lots of other, unique places to go through, be they forums, chatrooms, or oddball social games. The last item in the list there kind of faded away for a while, replaced by MMOs and live service games like Fortnite, but these smaller scale, social-first games, or hangout games, are making a comeback, with games like Webfishing. And soon, for the more aquatic amongst you, there will be Coral Social Club. On its…
Verdict AMD takes the gaming performance crown again, with the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D continuing the company’s run of “fastest gaming CPU in the world” titles. The performance uplift isn’t always huge here, but it’s definitely noticeable, and only comes with a small bump in price. The 3D V-Cache tech in this CPU also helps reduce the impact of slower RAM, potentially saving you what would currently be a costly RAM upgrade. Still, this is an expensive CPU for just eight cores, so it isn’t such an obvious choice unless gaming frame rates is your sole focus. Pros Chart-topping gaming…
Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist has added another powerhouse actor to its cast with Diane Lane joining Scarlett Johansson and Jacobi Jupe in the reboot of the classic horror film. The news comes courtesy of Bloody Disgusting.It’s the second attempt at an update in just a few years, with 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer intended to launch a new film trilogy that was scrapped when the movie bombed with critics and audiences alike.Flanagan is known for his keenly updated takes on classic horror stories such as The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Exorcist follows…
Remember in The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers when Gandalf falls down the big chasm with the Balrog, smacking the sawdust out of it while plummeting towards the waters of the underworld? Well, give Gandalf a gun, play that sequence in reverse, and swap the Balrog for a flock of Space Invaders, and you are playing something like the demo for Dwarf Legacy – a “bullet-hell precision platformer” from Wulo Games about a dwarf clambering up the inside of a mountain. Oh wait, Gandalf needs to be listening to crunchy dancefloor music to complete the analogy. Also, he…
$248.81. That’s now the combined cost of all the Crusader Kings 3 DLC. It’s a pretty hefty chunk of change, and while you can get the whole lot (plus the $50 base game) in a 25% discount bundle that brings its combined $298.80 price down to $224.05, that’s still a rather staggering figure for anyone looking to dip their toe into one of the best strategy games on PC. Fortunately, we’ve reached the time in a Paradox game’s life cycle where it decides there’s enough on the table to merit the launch of a subscription model, giving you the ability…
Dune: Awakening is ready to deliver an incredible endgame – again. This time, developer Funcom will try to improve on what many players consider a lackluster experience with its Chapter 3 update, which promises “A BIGGER, BETTER ENDGAME.””When it comes to the endgame, the specifics of what you’re looking for varies across both players and player types,” Funcom says in a Steam post, “but we’ve also been able to combine your feedback with cold, hard in-game telemetry.” Since the survival RPG released in 2025, Dune: Awakening players have complained of its endgame being hostile to solo players – though Funcom…
Last week, Ubisoft announced a major restructure that saw multiple games cancelled, including the Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time Remake, and more concerningly prospectively put layoffs on the horizon. Now, following an agreement made by a group of organised Ubisoft workers across multiple French unions, a call for an international strike across all studios at the company has been put out. The five unions in question consist of STJV, CGT, Printemps Ecologique, Solidaires Informatique, and CFE-CGC, who through the firstmost put out a statement regarding Ubisoft’s recent actions. Namely, the five unions are calling for a…
There’s something so alluring about haunted hotels. There’s the infamous Stanley Hotel in Colorado, or Dalhousie Castle in Edinburgh. There’s the anticipation of hearing a door creak; the thrill of a mysterious shadow passing by the window. Was it just a bird? Or was in something else? Inspired by roguelike deckbuilders like Slay the Spire, The Spirit Lift plays on the fear and thrill of the unknown, taking you back to the ’90s to explore the Vexington Hotel, where demons lurk around every corner. The setting is Lucid Falls, and it’s your graduation night. Your merry band of eight rebellious pals…