Darkwood interactive trailer asks whether you'll fight or flee Darkwood is a top-down, roguelikey, randomised horror, and one that (based on trailers at least) appears to have an atmosphere you could cut... 5:34:00 PM
Tom Francis has been chronicling the development of his game Heat Signature in great detail on a . The game has seen a major shift in focus over the course of development: it started out being about sneaking aorund in the vacuum of space,... 5:20:00 PM
The Dirty Word: Sex And Videogames The Dirty Word: Sex And Videogames Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. John and Laura Baxter silently prepare for a party, straightening ties and... 5:06:00 PM
Rust "reboot" is coming and everyone's going to get it A Rust "reboot" is in the works, with a major overhaul coming in the form of a new development branch that will implement changes... 4:33:00 PM
Out this week: 06/07/12 – Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, Rhythm Paradise, Spelunky Out this week: 06/07/12 – Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, Rhythm Paradise, Spelunky This week is mostly about rhythm action, with two great musi... 4:05:00 PM
The Forest review (Early Access) Alpha reviews offer our preliminary verdicts on in-development games. Alpha reviews offer our preliminary verdicts on in-development games. ... 3:32:00 PM
CD Projekt RED on the widening appeal of The Witcher 2 CD Projekt RED on the widening appeal of The Witcher 2 Ask us to name them most underrated of the past half-decade (perhaps even longer), an... 3:04:00 PM
The Stomping Land steps delicately onto Steam Early Access, offers multiplayer dino-based survival Rust toys with the idea of pre/post-historic man fighting for survival against the elements and against his fellow man, but what that really... 2:31:00 PM
Spec Ops: The Line preview Have there really been nine Spec Ops games?! Spec Ops games?! Forgive me, but I haven't played any of them, so Spec Ops: The Line was b... 2:03:00 PM
Wasteland 2 launches at end of August Brave badlands explorers have scrounged around Wasteland 2 's, er, wastes since its Early Access beta rode in from the dust last Decem... 1:30:00 PM
New DayZ renderer gets a test drive A new renderer has been top of DayZ players' wishlists almost since it entered Early Access in 2013. players' wishlists almost sinc... 1:02:00 PM
Galactic Civilizations 3 updated with ship-building system Galactic Civilizations 3 needs a few good engineers. needs a few good engineers. Set to be the next entryin the venerable 4X strategy game s... 12:29:00 PM
Top 50 Challenge – Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch As a fan of both JRPGs like the Final Fantasy series and Studio Ghibli’s work, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch seemed like a no brainer... 12:15:00 PM
DayZ forums hacked, user info and encrypted passwords stolen The DayZ development team tweeted on January 23 that its forums had suffered “an outside security breach,” and recommended that users chan... 12:01:00 PM
Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars makes the jump to Steam Early Access Indie developer Digital Eel has released the third of its roguelike space adventure Infinite Space series, Sea of Stars , to Steam Early A... 11:28:00 AM
Perfecting Persona: How Atlus USA Bloomed Atlus USA has become a go-to publisher for niche Japanese role-playing games, with Persona earning the company its reputation. Atlus USA h... 11:14:00 AM
DayZ to get predatory animals, including wolves I kind of thought DayZ already had predatory wolves, but I must be conflating it with all the other survival games that followed in its wake... 11:00:00 AM
Darkwood trailer teases impending Early Access scares Can a top-down game be terrifying? Can a top-down game be terrifying? If you're an RTS player, you already know the answer. Breaching a ... 10:27:00 PM
DayZ dev diary details new features and reflects on Early Access Two years DayZ has been in public development. has been in public development. Two years! At the risk of sounding like a haggard old man, i... 9:59:00 PM
Catch the wyrm with Dragon's Prophet's PC Gamer Beta Weekend We're giving you an exclusive chance to spend a weekend in the closed beta of Dragon's Prophet - Infernum Productions' free-to-p... 9:26:00 PM
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You may now officially monetize your private DayZ server If you operate a private server for DayZ , Bohemia Interactive's open-world zombie-dodging survival game, you now have the official gre... 8:58:00 PM
A closer look at the next six months of Star Wars: The Old Republic Most demos at E3 focus solely on the future, but BioWare started their Powerpoint presentation for Star Wars: The Old Republic's 2012 pl... 8:25:00 PM
Kinect Star Wars preview - Rancors save the day Kinect Star Wars didn’t leave the greatest impression on many media folks during its E3 2011 unveiling. Still, the development teams have pe... 8:11:00 PM
PC Gamer Show: Early Access pros and cons Last week's PC Gamer Show featured an Early Access game, which prompted a larger discussion around the PC Gamer office: how do we feel... 7:57:00 PM
The Old Republic announces upcoming level cap, new species, new planet, and free trial BioWare just announced their plans for the next 6 months of The Old Republic at EA's big E3 press conference. BioWare just announced the... 7:24:00 PM
Kinect Star Wars: the podracing is pretty ok! Our last preview of Kinect Star Wars was less than kind . The simple act of moving a Jedi through a totally linear, droid-filled tube was so... 7:10:00 PM
Bohemia shows horde AI for DayZ zombies Let's take a moment to appreciate that the "zombies" of this AI test are, in fact, an old guy with a beard. Let's take a m... 6:56:00 PM
Limited edition Star Wars Xbox 360 console bundle unveiled at Comic-Con As avid Star Wars fans, the only item we’re not crazy about in the bundle is the included copy of Star Wars Kinect. You can read more in our... 6:09:00 PM
PAX East 2015 preview We're on our way to PAX East! We're on our way to PAX East! The second PAX of the year starts tomorrow in Boston, running through Su... 5:55:00 PM
Download SteamOS now — Valve's free Linux-based operating system releases Put on your boot partitions—the SteamOS beta has released to the public alongside the initiation of its beta program, which will put 300 pro... 5:22:00 PM
Sorry fans, Nintendo has 'no plans' to release Xenoblade, Last Story or Pandora's Tower in US Over the last couple weeks, online group Operation Rainfall has been boldly pushing Nintendo to do something that shouldn’t be too hard: pub... 5:08:00 PM
DayZ patch 0.52 adds Christmas presents, chainsaws It's taken a while, but chainsaws have finally been added to DayZ—and just in time for Christmas. It's taken a while, but chainsaws ... 4:54:00 PM
Kirby: Planet Robobot review Kirby: Planet Robobot review We could sit here and worry that Kirby in a mech suit is going to make what can be an easy series even easier. ... 4:21:00 PM
The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition bound for Xbox 360 in April A release date has been confirmed for the substantially-enhanced console edition of CD Projekt's The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. In a... 4:07:00 PM
DayZ fan film is a well-made tale of sombre survival It says a lot about DayZ that Eternum Pictures' live action film can successfully evoke the game's spirit without featuring any zom... 3:53:00 PM
Valve joins Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of the free, open source operating system, announced on ... 3:20:00 PM
The Witcher 2 devs detail Xbox 360's Enhanced Edition CD Projekt is taking great pains to make its Xbox 360 adaption of The Witcher 2 more than just an average port. See how the studio is going ... 3:06:00 PM
Stealthy New Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailer Stalks Into View Stealthy New Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailer Stalks Into View (video via Official AssassinsCreed channel) The trailer highlight... 2:52:00 PM
Rogue Legacy update will bring a new class, harder bosses and more traits As if harder bosses were a thing that Rogue Legacy needed. As if harder bosses were a thing that Rogue Legacy needed. That's the problem... 2:19:00 PM
Nation of Poland formally presents Barack Obama with copy of The Witcher 2 As an international figure of some renown, US President Barack Obama is always getting gifts from heads of state on behalf of their countrie... 2:05:00 PM
Dean Hall starts recruiting for new game studio RocketWerkz Looking for programmers, artists, etc... for my new studio @RocketWerkz. Looking for programmers, artists, etc... for my new studio @RocketW... 1:51:00 PM
Cellar Door could start working on Rogue Legacy sequel in the next two years Cellar Door, the developer behind the excellent Rogue Legacy , has already started working on its next project. , has already started worki... 1:18:00 PM
DayZ celebrates one year in Early Access, updated dev roadmap detailed DayZ launched on Early Access this time last year, and since then we've watched it evolve from scrappy Arma mod into a game which lets ... 12:50:00 PM
Humble Bundle organisers launch The Humble Store, celebrate with a debut sale Bundles are so 2012. Bundles are so 2012. Okay, they're still pretty 2013 too, and the Humble Bundle organisers are planning to run both... 12:17:00 PM
Video games are a legitimate form of cultural expression... right? Are video games culture? Speaking at the Digital Dragons game conference in Krakow, Poland last week, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, co-CEO at He... 12:03:00 PM
DayZ update brings cannibalism to stable branch I love patch notes . . I especially love dry and flavourless patch notes. Games are neither dry nor flavourless, and that means these words... 11:49:00 AM
Wargame: European Escalation free DLC adds co-op play and new maps, 40% off this weekend I loved Wargame: European Escalation when it first came out, but I was disappointed by its abysmal skirmish options. I loved Wargame: Europe... 10:48:00 PM
Rogue Legacy's Mac and Linux ports "very close", upcoming patch will add new content Rogue Legacy's Mac and Linux siblings may have overslept, but soon they'll be able to join the elder, Windows version of the genealo... 11:16:00 AM
Dead Or Alive 5 review Dead Or Alive 5 review In a parallel universe somewhere, a fighting tournament is taking place. This alternate dimension setting is a lot li... 11:02:00 AM
How I Game: Teddy Lee — Co-founder, Cellar Door Games Most people read textbooks. Most people read textbooks. Teddy Lee, Game Designer at Cellar Door Games, uses them as monitor stands. As the l... 10:15:00 PM