February 2023

Audio player loading… This past weekend a Reddit user going by LATIN0 posted an image of what they estimated to be six pallets of Magic: The Gathering card (opens in new tab)s that had been dumped at their local landfill. What would be a treasure trove to a dedicated player was taken as a curiosity by LATIN0, who only knew the game existed from a decade of Reddit use. So they snapped a picture, dumped their trash, and moved on with their life. Later, they posted the quirky picture to Reddit alongside a few more pictures (opens in new tab)…

Audio player loading… Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer can’t be too concerned about how the Activision acquisition (opens in new tab) is going, because he’s dedicated over ten days of his life to getting every single achievement in Vampire Survivors, including the ones in its Legacy of the Moonspell DLC. Spencer ticked off the Victory Sword achievement—held by a mere 4.74% of Xbox players at time of writing—last Sunday evening, thereby ascending to the pantheon of S-Rank Vampire Survivors players and finally proving himself better than me at playing videogames. Which was probably his intention.All current achievements completed. Fantastic game…

Audio player loading… Out of nowhere Capcom has released an update for the Steam version (opens in new tab) of Resident Evil 5, released in 2009, the main function of which is to strip-out the zombified corpse of Games for Windows Live. The latter was an ill-fated online service that linked PCs into Microsoft’s Live services—launched in 2007 and discontinued in 2014—which mainly served to annoy users with its lack of functionality and compatibility problems. Indeed, a theme in the aftermath of its closure was games one-by-one updating to remove the service.Well Capcom took their sweet time (this is the…

Audio player loading… Since its first trailer in 2008, Beyond Good and Evil 2 hasn’t been able to catch a break. That doesn’t look like it’s going to let up anytime soon: Reports suggest that Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind the game, is under investigation by its local government for an “unprecedented” amount of burnout and sick leave among staff, and it’s lost its managing director, too.The news comes via three anonymous sources spoken to by Kotaku (opens in new tab), who said that the studio faced an investigation by the Inspection du Travail (France’s Labour Inspection body) after a…

Audio player loading… We live in fairly unreliable times when it comes to hardware releases. Chip shortages, supply issues, and a global pandemic has thrown a spanner into the works for all sorts of development and distribution efforts. One of the more notable delays of late has to be the release of PCIe 5.0 SSDs (opens in new tab). We’ve been hearing about them and their impressive speeds for years now (opens in new tab), and given the compatible controllers (opens in new tab) and AMD Ryzen 7000 series of CPU (opens in new tab)s are out in the wild,…

Audio player loading… In my experience, we all have two PC gamer wolves raging inside of us. One of them loves RGB lighting, sacrificing sleep for the sake of more gaming, and energy drinks that hopefully taste better than this one backed by crypto. (opens in new tab) The other wants all the lights off, no more than three peripherals on the desk, and is eyeing off a cosy-core handmade mouse mat and these Noctua beige keycaps (opens in new tab). As these things go, the one you feed is the one that grows. Though that second does start getting mighty…

Audio player loading… Korean indie developers ProjectMoon, the studio behind off-the-wall hits like Lobotomy Corporation (opens in new tab) and Library of Ruina (opens in new tab), has released a new, equally esoteric and inscrutable game called Limbus Company. It’s a mobile-style game that uses a twist on their delightful chaining combat mechanics from Library of Ruina, given depth with a match-3-esque interface and a variety of RPG interactions to optimize. It’s also set in the same strange, surreal-to-absurd, purgatorial anime city that the first two games are set in—immediately after the fall of the Lobotomy Corporation, in fact.It’s a…

Looking for cheats in Sons of the Forest? You can use console commands to turn on godmode, give yourself every item in the game, change the time of day or the weather, teleport around the map, or even spawn an army of helpful Kelvins (opens in new tab) to get your cabin built extra quickly. And here’s more good news: It’s pretty easy to access a debug console for the early access survival game that’ll let you do all that and more.To enable cheats in Sons of the Forest, you’ll need a couple of mods you can find at Thunderstore,…