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True story: I bought Stardew Valley in 2017 and finally started playing it this past weekend. Why did I wait almost eight years before planting my first parsnip? Honestly, I was afraid it would become too much of a timesink. Judging from the 12 hours I played in the past three days on my Steam Deck, I was correct.

Point is, this bit of news is especially pertinent to me but also other Sta…

If productivity apps were party guests, Microsoft Excel would be the guy who sits in the corner, interrupting every anecdote with the phrase “actually, I think you’ll find…”, and as a result, rarely gets invited back. It’s a dependable old workhorse of a program, depressingly accurate and dry as the apocalyptic wastes. 

However, this Fallout-inspired RPG runs right inside of t…

Struggling with your daily Wordle? Then you’ve come to the right place. There’s a fresh clue written for today’s game waiting just below, and if you’re about to run out of guesses, the answer to the July 21 (762) puzzle’s only a click away. However you want to win, we’ve got it covered.

Today’s puzzle felt like something of a close call, as I didn’t really have enough to work with until m…

This project blew me away the moment I came across it, and the further I went down this rabbit hole, the more astounded I became. Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene that has been created by one guy… yup, just one guy. It shows the life of one floor on a huge space station and is absolutely packed with references from varied media forms (including videogames, which we will get …

If you want to know what I think of Tribes, I reviewed the last entry in the series (2012’s free-to-play Tribes: Ascend) for Eurogamer and it’s one of the few games I’ve ever given a 10. God that game was good, though, sadly, it didn’t quite stick the landing with enough players to survive: Ascend went into that good night in 2016, since when there’s been a large Tribes-shaped gap in my …

The venerable online shooter Tribes made a surprise comeback in late 2023 as Tribes 3: Rivals, and with a launch set to happen later this year developer Prophecy Games has announced the first Rival Rumble tournament, an open-to-all competition that’s set to get underway on January 27.

The tournament could be a big one: Entry is free, there’s no cap on the number of signups, everyone who j…

I think we can all agree that piracy is basically an inevitability for any piece of software. For years now, we’ve been living in an era where Denuvo gets cracked so quickly for new games that it’s not even worth running a headline about it. But while piracy might be inevitable, the question remains: is it morally acceptable? I mean, sure—according to Ultrakill dev Arsi “Hakita” Pa…

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to PC Gamer that Halo’s franchise director, Frank O’Connor, has left Microsoft, telling us, “We thank Frank for his numerous contributions to the Halo franchise and wish him well going forward.” O’Connor’s departure was first reported over the weekend by Windows Central, who noticed that his LinkedIn had been updated to show him leaving Microsoft for a new rol…

“For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor.” 

That’s the opening line of a paper submitted by researchers at the Quantum Energy Research Centre, Inc. and Korea University—a paper which could become a seriously big deal, if the findings are ratified. Thing is, the scientific community isn’t so sure they will be.

Super…

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 school Warhammer ended to make way for the shinier skirmish wargame Age of Sigmar, it still…