Author: Jody Macgregor

I made my peace with linear visual novels a while ago—as long as there’s at least a little interaction. Let me muck around in a scene deciding what I look at while being rewarded with some ambient dialogue or whatever before I get back on the train to Plot Town, and I’m happy. That’s the…

Greg Styczeń, the solo developer of smash hit survival citybuilder Manor Lords, needs your help. Specifically, he needs your help deciding whether to adjust the game’s supply-and-demand system. The issue is that when Manor Lords was first made available to critics and YouTubers pre-release, the feedback was that trade was “OP” and it was too…

I stopped playing Dragon’s Dogma 2 because it was too janky for me, and I’m saying that as someone who plays Bethesda RPGs. If you’re still into Capcom’s camp-em-up, you might be interested in this mod, which enables a path-tracing setting normally hidden from players. The effect is startling as it doesn’t just make the…

It can’t be easy turning a board game into a book, though at least with a fantasy game there are plenty of fantasy novels offering a template to work from. You don’t get that if you’re asked to adapt, say, Power Grid. Given the task of turning children’s dungeon crawl HeroQuest into a book, Dave…

The multiverse has been good to Magic: The Gathering. Of its recent crossover sets the big winner was The Lord of the Rings, which earned over $200 million in under six months. As Polygon pointed out at the time, that’s about twice as much as other popular Magic sets make. Fallout has apparently been a…

Alongside Thrones of Decay, the upcoming Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC that will be sold in three slices so you can get just the bits you want, comes the obligatory Creative Assembly “free-LC”. This time it’s also in three bits, adding three new things to liven up your campaigns, whether they are of the Immortal…

It feels like we’re going to be mining the Fallout TV show for new nuggets of information for years, kind of like the way people in the show’s settlement of Filly survive by mining the sinking trash of their home. Here’s an example: I only just realized it’s called Filly because it’s a landfill, not…

The next Fallout is so far away it’s not even worth speculating about when it’ll happen. Fortunately, just like in Star Wars, there is another. You can always play a Wasteland instead. The game that directly influenced the original Fallout eventually gave rise to a series that collected the debt by continuing the style of…

Which one is 7 Days to Die again? It’s the zombie survival game where every seven days a rampaging horde arrives to mess up everything you’ve made? Sounds like Brisbane on the weekend.  I remember hearing 7 Days to Die is one of the good ones actually, but since it came out at the peak…