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“The year is 2009,” opens the 1.0 launch trailer for Xenonauts 2, a sentence that tickles me greatly considering the game’s alternate future vibes. It presents a vision of the world that differed greatly from my actual experience of worrying about swine flu and whether or not Yu-Gi-Oh! was cool any more. And yet that is the reality of the turn-based tactics game, which exits out of early access almost three years after its initial release. Xenonauts 2, for the uninitiated, imagines a world where aliens have invaded and you are in charge of a multinational military group…
The proportion of gaming PCs with 32GB of RAM just dropped a massive 20.31% on the latest Steam Hardware Survey for March 2026. With PC RAM prices currently so high, PC gamers have seemingly been forced to either buy lower-specced hardware or have perhaps been tempted to downgrade their systems to cash in on their ultra-valuable RAM. In an ideal world, we’d recommend 32GB as the best gaming RAM allocation for a current gaming PC. With triple-A games getting ever larger and gamers often liking to stream and record their sessions while multi-tasking with web browsers, video editors, and other…
There are few bigger stars in the world right now than Zendaya, and few filmmakers at the level of 2026 Oscar winner Ryan Coogler. But if the Spider-Man and Euphoria star has her way, she’d like to work with Coogler as a career goal.”Oh goodness. You know, I would love to work with Ryan [Coogler],” Zendaya tells Jennifer Hudson on her podcast (around the 5 minute mark). “Because, it’s been for years that I felt this way, since Fruitvale Station, because I thought that was such a beautiful and powerful film.””But I’m from Oakland too, and I remember when that…
In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, “we don’t play it safe. We take chances.” He was talking about his upcoming game Thick as Thieves, a multiplayer immersive sim that’s basically Thief, except other people are trying to pull off the same heist as you on the same map, with all of you racing to get the loot first. Except it’s not going to be that game anymore. No, instead, as detailed in this Steam blog post, it’ll be a bit closer…
Resident Evil 2 is one of the first console games I ever played. Growing up, we had a case of PS1 games that my dad had accrued, though I always tactically waited for him to be out of the house before I switched out Toy Story 2’s Buzz Lightyear for Leon and Jill. Now, many many years later, Capcom’s finally put the original Resident Evil trilogy on Steam, offering up an irresistible nostalgia hit. However, considering the publisher has ported them, alongside the incredible Breath of Fire 4, over from 2024’s GOG release and slapped on a heavy DRM layer,…
Actor Erica Lindbeck hated Misty Olszewski, one of the characters she plays in Cyberpunk 2077, until developer CD Projekt Red gladly transformed her into someone completely different.Before rewrites, fan-favorite tarot reader Misty was disappointing and completely “vapid,” Lindbeck tells The Gamer in a new interview. The new age goth girl was limited to only a fistful of one-liners, and Lindbeck expected Militech manager Meredith to be the most significant example of her work on Cyberpunk 2077.After all, “The character that I booked in Cyberpunk was Meredith,” Lindbeck explains, “and then Misty was a random side character that they threw me.”…
Earlier this week the team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion put out a call for some “final” and “vital” veteran help to get their work over the line in 2026. Given the mod’s delay late last year and the fairly lengthy list of roles the post on Nexus Mods cited the Skyblivion crew as looking to fill, you’d be forgiven for wondering what this recruiting push might mean in terms of how work on the mod’s going. However, Skyblivion’s project lead Kyle ‘Rebelzize’ Rebel says it’s not a sign that the project’s “dead in the water”, but instead a team…
Real money trading has long been an issue in Path of Exile. While some are looking to make a quick, lucrative buck from their endgame gear, others who are strapped for time pay to skip the RPG’s often unforgiving grind. While developer Grinding Gear Games has issued bans in the past for partaking in the terms of service-breaking trade, it looks like it is ramping up its efforts to stamp RMT out for good. Recently, a viewer of Path of Exile creator ‘Zizaran’ sent him an image of a new warning message they had received, stating that their account “had…
Fortnite’s not dead, but it’s suffering a “downturn” in engagement that Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has blamed for recent layoffs affecting over 1,000 employees. According to one industry analyst, Epic’s declining fortunes mark one example of a broader collapse of “American cultural dominance” in video games.”It’s in the nature of empires to destroy themselves,” NYU professor and games industry researcher Joost van Dreunen dramatically begins in a new analysis. As he explains, “the news of Epic Games’ latest layoffs adds to the mounting evidence of the real-time collapse of American cultural dominance in interactive entertainment.” As a result, it has…
Ascenders: Beyond The Peak is a new turn-based roguelite in which a bunch of alpine occultists try to recover cursed artefacts from Lovecraftian mountains, before the world ends. Lotta genre references and parallels there, so let me boil it down for you: this appears to be Darkest Dungeon plus gravity. Darkest Dungeon plus slippery handholds, crumbling rock falls, blizzards, avalanches, anchor points, grappling hooks, and demolition charges. Darkest Dungeon 2 but with the wagoneering bit omitted in favour of a grid-based vertical traversal system. Instead of slumber parties in the catacombs, a Base Camp for crafting, bonding, and tending injuries.…