Xbox Game Pass adds Darkest Dungeon to its late January slate
Following today’s Developer Direct event, Xbox announced the final games coming to Game Pass in its late January/early February slate. These include the newly...
Blightbound interview: Dungeon-running, Early Access-style
Blightbound is a departure for Ronimo Games. The indie studio has built a solid reputation with colorful, frenetic games like Awesomenauts and Swords and...
Adapting games, from cardboard to code and back again
The relationship between the world of cardboard-and-tokens physical games and their digital cousins has always been complicated. Though they’ve both grown exponentially in recent...
Iratus: Lord of the Dead hits Steam Early Access as an undead twist on Darkest Dungeon
My favorite Dungeons & Dragons Dad Joke is about how “a Necromancer just wants to raise a family.” Iratus: Lord of the Dead has...
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...
Darkest Dungeon breaks Switch players with gothic stress on January 18
One of the best and most atmospheric role-playing games is making the leap from PC to Nintendo’s hybrid Switch handled/home console. Red Hook Studios...
Punch mechs and manage mercs in Battletech
The release of the XCOM reboot in 2012 has ushered in a new golden age of strategy/tactics hybrids. The formula seems simple: intricate turn-based...
Twitch broadcaster turns single-player Darkest Dungeon into a co-op game
Why face the sanity-breaking horrors of Darkest Dungeon alone when you could use the buddy system? For over a month now, livestreamer and YouTube...
War of the Chosen promises a deeper, better XCOM 2
When it was released, XCOM 2 was a fantastic tactical combat game with an ambitious and occasionally frustrating strategic layer. The complex interactions of...
GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s top 10 games of 2016
Well, this list sure feels a lot like 2015: a role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment, a couple of games from Japan, and just the...