Andy Kelly has been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator in advance of its release, and been properly wowed by its fidelity. The thought of flying over a version of the city where I live that—at least from a height—looks photorealistic? That’s exciting, and so is the idea of being able to return to places I’ve visited. The closest thing to a flight sim I’ve played in the last few years have been games where you’re a bird, but this might just drag me back.Chris Livingston has been playing Blaseball, a simulator of baseball that is apparently being played in Hell (unlike…

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.I’m a member of the generation some folks have taken to calling “Xennials”, the tiny but distinct generation sandwiched between Millennials and Generation X. My favorite description of us is that we’re the generation who came of age with the internet, but are just old enough to remember functioning in a world without it. I can even pinpoint when I first had a sense that I’d been born around the cusp of a great shift—the night my parents came home with a brand-new Commodore 64.It seemed…

While news about Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains thin on the ground, Netflix has confirmed a Hollywood Reporter story about a movie based on the “epic space pirate adventure” being in the works.Rob Letterman, previously responsible for the actually-quite-decent Detective Pikachu movie, will be directing, with Jason Altman and Margaret Boykin producing.After the success of The Witcher and Castlevania, Netflix seem intent on continuing their adaptations of videogame properties, with even Cuphead about to get its own TV show, as well as Splinter Cell and Dragon’s Dogma. 

Fortnite’s Season 3 brought with it a freshly flooded map, with several existing locations like Slurpy Swamp hidden underwater while new areas appeared above the waterline. Our guide to the Season 3 map changes had the info on that, but now things are changing again. The water has receded, and the Atlantis location fans had been expecting since they saw the Aquaman skin has appeared.The whirlpool that formerly dominated the map’s northwest corner, and launched players who swum over it into the air, has gone. Atlantis stands in its place. It’s actually called Coral Castle rather than Atlantis, but you…

A recent Twitter thread about which game has the most realistic rain got us thinking about weather. From nuclear storms in Mad Max and Metro Exodus, to wind blowing through Velen’s trees in The Witcher 3, to regular old Minecraft rain. Memorable weather can add a lot to the experience of play.Our latest weekend question is this: What weather adds the most to a game?Here are our answers, plus a few from our forum.(Image credit: RockStar)Lauren Morton: I’ve been getting back to Sea Of Thieves and Red Dead Online lately and let me tell you I’m having some feelings about fog. Foggy…

Warframe is a weird game. It’s got a village full of indebted, once-human robots who store their human heads inside of their chest cavity. It’s got an infectious pimple that you can spread to other players or pop, using its juice to grow a pet monster, and it takes almost 50 hours before you reach the character creation screen. But Heart of Deimos, the new expansion which launches on August 25 and includes a new open world zone to explore, might just be one of Warframe’s weirdest updates yet.Announced during Warframe’s TennoCon 2020 fan convention, Heart of Deimos explores the…

Warframe’s third open-world expansion, called Heart of Deimos, adds a grotesque landscape filled with fleshy Infested monsters. Revealed today during TennoCon 2020, Warframe’s annual fan convention, developer Digital Extremes also announced that Heart of Deimos will be coming much sooner than you might think: August 25.Like Warframe’s previous open world areas, Heart of Deimos is a big, open space where players can fight, complete bounties, or just pass the time by fishing. But what makes Deimos unique is its deeply unsettling aesthetic. The second moon of Mars is overrun with the Infested, a faction of enemies that, like the name…

Cooperative board game Spirit Island has come to PC at last, with the official port of R. Eric Reuss’ masterpiece of complex co-op hitting Steam this week. Spirit Island is one of the best board games of the past few years, sitting at an overall rank of 13th on BoardGameGeek’s best games. It’s a game where players are one of a variety of powerful natural spirits who team up to protect their island’s native inhabitants from aggressive, militaristic invaders who would destroy their way of life.Spirit Island Digital was first announced in 2018, but it’s just now making its way…