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Space is having a bit of a moment. After years of the empty regions between planets feeling like a billionaire’s playground, the folks at NASA are bringing back the good vibes with the Artemis II launch. Meanwhile, Project Hail Mary is taking space exploration to big box office heights. And all the while, there’s been an unexpected beneficiary of all this space love: Kerbal Space Program, which just reached its biggest Steam player count since launch.Kerbal Space Program reached a peak of 11,890 concurrent players on Sunday, April 5, as SteamDB shows. That’s the biggest peak since the game’s 1.0…
What is more charming and more odd than a forgotten spin-off? The ones that quietly slipped through the cracks while their bigger siblings took all the glory. Well, I’m here to shine the spotlight on one of those niche underdogs because CivCity: Rome (a spin-off of Sid Meier’s Civilization series) has resurfaced as part of a new Humble Bundle, where you can grab 12 games for $8 / £7.24 – or just $0.66 / £0.48 each. Originally released during the golden age of city builders, CivCity: Rome takes the DNA of the Civilization series and flips it into something at…
Well before Just Cause developer Avalanche lost Contraband, a co-op heist game planned as a major Xbox release, to Microsoft’s cascading cancellations, the studio had to abandon an open-world fantasy game known as AionGuard in the ’00s. New comments from Avalanche co-founder and former CCO Christofer Sundberg suggest AionGuard could’ve looked an awful lot like Crimson Desert, the newly released open-world fantasy game from developer Pearl Abyss that’s sold millions of copies in a few weeks.Speaking with PC Gamer, Sundberg directly compares the two games: “I haven’t played Crimson Desert enough, but we had everything that I’ve seen from Crimson…
Mike Rose, founder of indie publisher No More Robots, which is perhaps best known for the likes of Yes, Your Grace and Descenders, likens the spread of generative AI use in games to the opening of Pandora’s box. Simply put, we ain’t getting the lid back on the box.”From a publisher perspective specifically, it’s mega annoying,” Rose tells GamesRadar+ in an interview, echoing other publishers like Hooded Horse. “If we thought the number of games being launched on Steam was crazy before, now it’s just impossible. During the last Next Fest, it seemed like around 1/3 of the demos had…
Crimson Desert has enough content to keep players trapped in its starting area for 136 hours, but once they manage to break away and pursue the endgame, some are claiming their to-do lists have become uncharacteristically empty.They think Crimson Desert’s endgame is so egregiously boring, they’re urging developer Pearl Abyss to make a change. One April 6 ordinance on Reddit with over 800 likes and, uh, 800 comments addresses Pearl Abyss’ “Lead Systems Designers and Community Managers” directly in an effort to call attention to Crimson Desert’s endgame that might as well be an abandoned house.Or, as the Reddit petitioner…
It’s no secret that Crimson Desert sports a massive map with unprecedented levels of interactivity, and just when you think you’ve reached the confines of the map, it opens up even further. As it turns out, if you just keep pushing up, you’ll eventually reach outer space and be able to look down at Crimson Desert’s fantasy planet from an interstellar perspective.As spotted by PC Gamer, the intrepid explorers at ItemRelocationClub recently demonstrated their history-making trip outside of the upper atmosphere of the game and into the blackness of space. To their and everyone else’s surprise, there’s actually stuff up…
Exit 8 director Genki Kawamura says the inspiration for the horror film’s unique sound design comes from none other than 1980’s The Shining.”I paid a lot of respect to Stanley Kubrick and The Shining in this film,” Kawamura tells GamesRadar+. “And when [Danny] goes down the corridor in the tricycle, there was a different sound the tricycle made when it was on wood versus when it was on the carpet. I think that level of difference really kind of gets under our skin and mentally kind of like corners us, which is what I wanted to do.”The movie, based on…
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 brings a renewed focus on the relationship and rivalry between Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock and Wilson Bethel’s Bullseye that evolves their dynamic beyond what we’ve seen before in comics.Beware, we’ll be getting into some spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 4, so turn back now if you haven’t seen it.In comics, Bullseye is something like Daredevil’s equivalent to the Joker – an utterly insane, immoral, bloodthirsty agent of chaos who thrives on making Daredevil and his loved ones suffer. He is an irredeemable villain who remains consistently dedicated to nothing but murder and…
Eric Barone’s genre-defining farming sim Stardew Valley is most obviously inspired by Harvest Moon, but it also has plenty of The Legend of Zelda’s DNA buried beneath the surface. That makes sense considering Barone’s long history with the Zelda series, and now we can point to a specific game that made him fall in love in the first place: Link’s Awakening, specifically the Game Boy version.Talking to Game Informer for a story celebrating ’40 years of Zelda’s Legend’, Barone named Link’s Awakening his all-time favorite Zelda game. It’s not necessarily a controversial pick, but it is fairly uncommon. We ranked…
If you’re a fan of both the Black Clover anime and Roblox, there’s a good chance that you’re after some Black Grimoire codes. As such, we’re sure we don’t need to tell you just how valuable they can be in getting a head start on your adventure. Every anime fan knows that there are butts to kick and exciting worlds to explore. Our favorite thing about Black Grimoire is just how much it actually offers. Yes, while getting to journey through a world based on the popular anime series is fun, it’s the exciting dungeons and intense PvP action that…