Author: Jody Macgregor

Is viral survival game sensation Palworld a fair parody of Pokémon or an act of plagiarism, potentially incorporating AI-generated fakémon? This is the argument that’s consumed social media since Palworld’s release, and while it seems like everyone has weighed in on the topic, The Pokémon Company itself maintained a dignified silence. Until now. In a…

Discovering just how many pacifist choices you could make in the original Fallout was a delight, because not only were you allowed to talk or sneak your way out of problems, but the game recognized you were doing that and rewarded you for it. Subsequent RPGs and immersive sims sprinkled peaceful options in, but an…

You may be familiar with Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun tricks like shadowboxing, which is where you kill Shadowheart and stuff her in a box as a way of skipping through a substantial part of the game. Which is honestly a bit of a rough way to treat God’s favorite princess and the most interesting girl…

As someone who grew up with an Atari 2600 it sure is nice to be able to talk about an upcoming Atari game with positive anticipation. That’s how I feel about Lunar Lander Beyond, a forthcoming sequel to a game so old it’s developed a pot belly and taken up jogging. Atari’s original Lunar Lander…

First published in 1987, Ars Magica is a tabletop RPG set in a version of medieval Europe where magic is real and all the player-characters are wizards. Well, technically. One of the novel ideas of Ars Magica was “troupe-style play” in which every player created multiple characters, playing different ones as the story dictated. You…

First, they said Sins of the Flesh wouldn’t be “the sex update”. Then they said, fine, since you weird little freaks seem to want it so bad, if Cult of the Lamb gets 300,000 followers on Twitter before the end of 2023, “we will add sex to the game”. And when that happened with unseemly…

Need to know What is it? Shadowrun but steampunk instead of cyberpunk. Expect to pay £/$ Release date Jan 16, 2024 Developer Crimson Herring Studios Publisher Crimson Herring Studios Reviewed on Windows 10, Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1060 Multiplayer No Link Official site While playing as Atticus Daley, an alcoholic illusionist, I…

To my mind, the aesthetic of Games Workshop’s original tabletop wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle can be summed best by a Monty Python quote. It’s the bit in Holy Grail where a commoner says he can tell Arthur must be a king because “he hasn’t got shit all over him.” Though the grubby fantasy of old…

The starting village is a classic fantasy RPG cliché. From Hommlet in The Temple of Elemental Evil to Riverwood in Skyrim, it’s no surprise when we start our adventuring career dealing with small problems in a small town. Icewind Dale, the D&D game Black Isle developed in 2000, was no exception, beginning in the frozen…