The Midnight Walk Review (Switch 2)

Captured on Nintendo Switch 2 (Docked) Now fully aware of fire-hungry crawling monsters lurking in the shadows, I jump out of my skin at scuttling sounds behind me. I swing…

“I was chomping at the bit to crack the code”: How procedural maps became XCOM 2’s biggest ambition, after Firaxis couldn’t manage it in Enemy Unknown

Garth DeAngelis remembers being in the room when Firaxis chose to ditch XCOM: Enemy Unknown’s procedurally generated maps. Despite being a feature of the original 1994 game, when Firaxis tried…

This Nightdive-remastered 3DO shooter shows why it took Halo to break PC gaming’s FPS hegemony

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out…

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review

There’s imagination and enthusiasm here, but little else beneath the spectacle. Weird as this sounds, I think The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has the same basic problems as Love Story,…

Mother 3’s anti-capitalist message still resonates two decades later

This month marks 20 years since the launch of Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance, the RPG sequel to the cult classic Earthbound (known as Mother 2 in Japan).…

The Price of Gaming Is Becoming A Big Problem | Spot On

Dynamic pricing, RAM shortages, and console cost hikes are just some of the things impacting the industry recently and as a result, buying and playing games is becoming way more…

Amazon’s Mass Effect TV Series ‘Remains on the Verge of a Series Order’

What’s going on with Prime Video’s Mass Effect TV show? According to a new report, it’s on “the verge” of a series order, but the boss of Amazon TV has…

What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th April)

But it’s Saturday now, so let’s check in with Team NL and co. to find out about their weekend gaming plans… Jim Norman, Features Editor My brain is Pokopia, ,…

Crimson Desert is now a survival game, thanks to this mod based on an alleged secret “food consequences” system

Are you having fun being Kliff MacDuff? How would you like to be Kliff MacDuff with an acute case of gastritis? It appears that open world RPG Crimson Desert has…

Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges ‘to let you know what was unique about each adventure’ in latest beta patch

Slay the Spire 2 is getting badges—not the ones you get on Steam, but not entirely different, either. In the notes for a new beta patch, developer Mega Crit said…