Author: Jonathan Bolding

A free prologue is out now for stealth action game Intravenous 2, called Mercenarism, it puts you in the top-down shoes of Gideon, an amoral mercenary who takes on a couple simple jobs that’ll snowball into the events of the main game when it releases later this year. The two-level demo sets up the premise…

City builder Timberborn has a new update out. That’s the beaver-based one about all the cool cities they’ll build once we wreck the ecosphere and die off and they replace us as the planet’s dominant species. The latest update, Badwater, is the fifth major release for the Early Access period of Timberborn and adds a…

The industrially-inspired town building game Factory Town has a spinoff as of this week, packing the entire experience of building up and expanding an oddly factory-like society into a series of oddly spreadsheet-like screens. All of which depict the details of an oddly factory-like society. I think you get my drift. My drift being this…

The new game based on Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s comic Sand Land will release on April 26, 2023, announced Bandai Namco on the PlayStation blog. The action-RPG will have players puttering around and bashing baddies in a kind of cute, monster-infested manga version of a Mad Max wasteland. The original Sand Land was a…

Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida has said that the reason there’s no firmer release date for expansion Dawntrail than summer 2024 is because he would rather not give one than give one that has to be delayed. Fans were expecting a release date at the Japanese Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest 2024 this…

Square Enix has debuted a full trailer for Final Fantasy 14’s upcoming expansion Dawntrail at Final Fantasy Fan Festival 2024. The trailer shows off a look at the new world continent and its inhabitants interacting with a diverse lineup of FF14 classics. The trailer is dominated by the generic player-stand-in Adventurer journeying towards the new…

Final Fantasy 14’s annual fan event was in full swing yesterday, and the announcements of new features—and trailers—from the Dawntrail expansion were coming pretty fast. The new Pictomancer was on display, the mystical painter joining FF14 as a magical ranged damage job. The intelligence-based Pictomancer isn’t just pure damage, however, and has some abilities that…

An upcoming farming sim will take place in a magical world of spirits and monsters where you restore a deteriorating countryside inn and explore the town and region populated by people, monsters, and more.  The game plans to launch with cooperative play, and it’ll also have a neat-looking twist: By wearing ancient masks, you can…

Character-based historical 4X Old World will release a fourth DLC on January 11th, Wonders and Dynasties, bringing a whole, whole lot of new historical characters to the dynastic politics of your ancient empires. Something like 120 new characters, in fact, ranging from Hannibal and Caesar to Khufu and Stateira. That alongside 21 new character traits…

Valve has released their annual Best of Steam 2023, a showcase of what was played most and made the most money broken down into roughly grouped tiers: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. In a year of absolutely great games, some of these chart-toppers aren’t surprises, but dang I’d never have guessed that Half-Life, the 1998…