Nightmarchers seeks crowdfunding for a postapocalyptic trip to Hawaii
The action role-playing game Nightmarchers is adding a tropical twist to the end of the world. Developer Wyrmbyte crafted a postapocalyptic version of the...
Darkest Dungeon on Switch can be felled! It can be beaten!
Darkest Dungeon is all about dreary, maddening catacombs and stressful encounters with death-worshiping cultists. But I have to say that I’m finding it quite nice...
Nantucket turns Ahab’s obsession over Moby Dick into a strategy game
Picaresque Studio‘s Nantucket is the latest video game to draw inspiration from literary classics — this time from the vengeful nautical adventures of Herman...
Friendly ghosts haunt PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
I love running custom games of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Even when I die during one of these matches, the fun isn’t over, because I can...
SpecialEffect charity raises $621,777 to help disabled people play games
The U.K.-based charity SpecialEffect received $621,777 (£446,000) in donations from game companies during its annual One Special Day event in September. The charity focuses...
Epic acquires Cloudgine so Unreal devs can offload game processing to servers
Epic is unlocking the power of the cloud for its Unreal Engine 4 game-development tools. The company has acquired Cloudgine, a startup that enables...
Oculus VR spinoff Fable Studio makes big debut at Sundance
Fable Studio debuted its new virtual reality experience Wolves in the Walls this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, and it also took the...
Iconoclasts review — a mechanic’s guide to saving the world
Iconoclasts feels like a classic. It’s brimming with callbacks to an older era of games, but with an updated look and style. It’s an...
Batman: The Enemy Within Episode Four review — setting up a tense showdown
Telltale Games’s Batman: The Enemy Within has been uneven so far, but fortunately Episode Four breaks from the previous entry’s stagnation. Titled “What Ails...
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire — a step inside The Void’s new VR experience
Before I went to Disneyland this week, I made it to what is a far more interesting attraction for Star Wars geeks. In the...