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[ad_1] Here we are in the dystopian future where major game announcements aren’t made in front of crowds of cheering fans at a packed E3 but in some Twitter slides of a group strategy update for long-term product outlooks. Instead of feeling goosebumps on your arms as the orchestra swells for a bombastic teaser trailer,…

[ad_1] Six years after its launch, No Man’s Sky has nearly reached another milestone, version 4.0. This comes as Hello Games’ galactic sandbox prepares to expand onto yet another platform, Nintendo Switch, on October 7.  A Switch debut may not feel planet-shaking to longtime players on PC, but the 4.0 update will bring a number…

[ad_1] Looking for the best Cyberpunk 2077 mods? You’re not alone. Nearly two years after its contentious and troublesome launch, players are suddenly flocking back to Cyberpunk 2077 in record numbers (opens in new tab), and sales (opens in new tab) of CD Projekt’s first-person RPG are on the rise, too. There are some good…

[ad_1] Driving recklessly is an open world game tradition. Leaving a wake of smashed cars, dead pedestrians, and downed lampposts behind you is just a fact of life, whether you’re racing off on a world-saving quest or just driving to the store to buy a new pair of kicks. The wreckage, meanwhile, is all neatly…

[ad_1] Earth had a good run. It spun happily around the sun for 5 billion years and for a while there it produced some pretty cool-looking dinosaurs. But the party’s over: in the past couple centuries a swiftly spreading species of primate started digging gunk out of the ground and setting it on fire, and…

[ad_1] The technological marvel of Microsoft Flight Simulator isn’t just the faithful recreation of the entire planet you can fly over, but also an accurate simulation of real-world weather you can fly through. If it’s raining, snowing, or storming somewhere around the globe and you fly your plane there in the game, you’ll experience that…

[ad_1] One of the nice things about a game like Skyrim is that you can safely ignore the main questline for, well, as long as you like. You’re the Dragonborn, but you don’t technically need to act like it. Some mods, like Alternate Start – Live Another Life (opens in new tab), help out by…

[ad_1] For beacons meant to ward off disaster, lighthouses in fiction typically aren’t places you want to end up. Whether we’re talking about movies like 2019’s The Lighthouse or 2018’s Annihilation, the entrance to the nightmarish city of Rapture in BioShock, or the place you’re ambushed by gunships in Half-Life 2, bad stuff tends to…

[ad_1] I’m running around at top speed vacuuming up cartoon apples so I can fire them into the mouth of a giant grinning blob with the feverish desperation of someone trying to take down an enemy APC with a grenade launcher.  Why? I have no idea. All I know is, there’s an enormous slime blocking…

[ad_1] Since I drifted away from Wordle and Knotwords earlier this year I’ve been looking for a new game to play in short sessions every morning or evening: Just a little something to puzzle over during coffee and again to unwind with at the end of the day. I wouldn’t have expected to find what…