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This week, I discovered a TikToker deliberately developing the worst game of all time—complete with impossible platforming, unskippable dialogue, and a rocket launcher that has to be reloaded 150 times between each shot. I ended that post anxious that creator Everywhere Nowhere might one day release their abomination into the world for people to actually…

Welcome to the sci-fi future year of 2024!  As the Earth turns and calendars are changed out, our thoughts turn inevitably to making some New Year’s resolutions. Surely this could be the year you finish your Steam backlog, clean up your gaming bad habits, or finally fix your terrible posture? All that’s needed is a…

I haven’t played Monster Sniper Season 3—no one has yet, except its creator—but I can already tell you it’s the worst game ever made. That’s not a value judgement; it’s the stated goal of the project. Starting in November last year, TikTok creator Everywhere Nowhere has set out to deliberately make the worst videogame they…

D&D and other tabletop RPGs require someone to lead them—a Dungeon Master, also known as a Games Master. It can be an intimidating role to take on, but as someone who’s been regularly running campaigns for about 20 years now, trust me when I say that learning how to DM is much less difficult than…

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Vampire Survivors (Image credit: Poncle) Developer: PoncleYear: 2022 For most of a run in Vampire Survivors, you’re scrambling. Grabbing XP gems wherever you can, praying for the weapons you need, ducking and weaving around just-slightly-too-big-to-handle hordes. A lot of runs…

It’s been… kind of a weird year for games, all in all.  We’ve had lots of amazing surprises: Dave the Diver surfaced out of nowhere to steal our hearts, Cyberpunk 2077 completed its redemption arc with a flourish, and of course Baldur’s Gate 3 smashed even our already sky high expectations.  But it’s also been…

Given Remedy’s preoccupation with looping stories in Alan Wake 2, it feels particularly fitting that the game now has a New Game Plus mode. Just as Alan himself is trapped experiencing the same events over and over, now you too can pretend you’re in the Dark Place by turning the year’s best horror game into…

As fans work themselves into a frenzy trying to wring every drop of information out of a 90 second trailer, and some of the media’s greatest GTA scholars deliver informed speculation and clever predictions, I can’t help but get caught up in the excitement of it all. Why should I be prevented from joining in,…

It was exactly 10 years ago that Hello Games first announced the project that catapulted it to enormous mainstream attention: No Man’s Sky. To call the following decade turbulent for the studio would be something of an understatement.  For years, it got to ride the highs of working on one of the most hotly anticipated…