Tag: OVERFLOW

The recent deluge of layoffs at Blizzard (and Microsoft’s wider gaming division) has been utterly brutal—especially since several employees uprooted their lives to come and work at the company, with some employed there for just four months. While there’s no way to soften that sort of blow, one crafty ex-Blizzard employee did manage a small…

Dread Delusion is one of the games I’m most excited for: a lo-fi, indie take on a Morrowind-style weird fantasy world, the medieval societies clinging to a field of asteroids slowly orbiting a small red star. That world just got a little bit weirder thanks to the addition of Dread Delusion’s first new major region…

Palworld has absolutely taken the real, non-pal world by storm, but no matter how big the survival crafting Pokémon brutality engine gets, I’m staying in my bunker to play crusty CRPGs from 1998 until the storm clears. Studio Pocketpair’s next game, Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse, might be a little bit more my…

Ergonomic keyboards pretty much come in one of four categories: not-really-ergo, entry-level, serious, and one for the absolutely committed. The MoErgo Glove80 is well and truly in the last one. This particular model is a second revision of the original Glove80, first launched in 2022 after a successful Kickstarter campaign, following years of design, experimentation,…

If you’re hunting for Enshrouded amber locations, you’re not the only one. Amber is a mid-game resource that can be used to unlock the fireball level 2 spell with the alchemist, craft mage gear, and upgrade your flame altar from level 3 to level 4.  Amber is incredibly useful… but it’s also pretty hard to…

Dominions is one of those “If you know, you know” game series. Across 22 years, it remains untroubled by the usual quest for ever-greater graphics fidelity or conceptual execution.  Dominions is instead the product of two people focused intensely on game mechanics and a sprawling game world. The premise is that the god-of-gods is dead…

There’s a minor spoiler here, so click away if you’re still waiting to see how Geralt’s saga wraps up in CD Projekt’s The Witcher trilogy. Last chance here! Okay: Geralt finally achieves his happy ending at the conclusion of the excellent Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine: Wealth, wine, and the woman he loves, in…

Yeah, I know, there have already been a couple big co-op survival games released in just the past week, the record-smashing monster-managing Palworld and sprawling fantasy RPG Enshrouded.  But there’s always room for one more, isn’t there?  This one isn’t taking its cues from Pokémon or using Valheim and Zelda as an inspiration: co-op survival…

Sam Barlow’s studio Half Mermaid, the developer of Her Story, Telling Lies, and Immortality—one of highest-reviewed games of 2022—are teasing a pair of mysterious new projects on Steam called, mysteriously, Project C and Project D. The newly-arrived Steam pages for both new games are heavily redacted. The description for Project C opens with a biblical…

The Framework 16 is the gaming laptop I’ve always wanted. Well… almost. If you put the Framework 16’s GPU party piece into the Razer Blade 14 then you’ve got the gaming laptop I’ve always wanted, but this is certainly a vital step down that path. And without Framework there’s no chance of ever getting there;…