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Wuchang: Fallen Feathersis the latest big premium single-player game out of China after the runaway success ofBlack Myth: Wukong, but though developer Lenzeefelt that Wukong had proven “it was the right decision to start Wuchang”, Wuchang hasn’t yet managed to emulate its success. There are a few reasons for this. The game had a bad launch, garnering an Overwhelmingly Negative rating on Steam because ofperformance issues and poor optimisation, leading the developer to“sincerely apologise”to its players and offer items as compensation alongside releasing fixes for crashing issues, frame rate improvements, and more....

Summary The best time to be aJRPGfan is right now: not only are there new high-profile games coming out every year, but you have a vast library spanning almost four decades to explore at this point, and digital services that make it easy. Old games getremakes and remastersthat make them even more palatable now than they were in their heyday. All in all, times are good. That said, if you can’t read Japanese, there are some JRPGs that publishers haven’t seen fit to give you access to....

Look, you know as well as I do that as much as you whine and moan aboutGrand Theft Auto 6, you’re going to play it. Maybe not on day one – maybe you’ll sit on it for a year or so and pray for a sale, or maybe you’re going to wait god knows how long for it to come to PC, but you’re going to play it. It’s the most anticipated game of the decade:its second trailer got almost half a billion views in a single day....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows will not be your Game of the Year.Monster Hunter Wildswill not be your Game of the Year. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered will not be your Game of the Year.Grand Theft Auto 6 definitely won’t be your Game of the Yearany more. Okay,Clair Obscur: Expedition 33mightbe your Game of the Year, but that shouldn’t stop you from playing more games to see if that’s truly the case....

In the same way that actor Edmund Gwenn is said to have quipped on his deathbed, “Dying is easy; comedy is hard,” it’s much harder to find optimism in our sci-fi and speculative fiction than it is to give in to haunting dreams of doom and dystopia. At least one board game launching atGen Con Indythis year, though, paints a picture of what the world could be like with just a little push toward sustainable, eco-friendly communities....

Valveco-founder,Gabe Newelluncorked a bit of his past lore in an interview onYouTubethis week, and it appears he may have gotten started in the gaming industry by just hanging around. Long before Gabe Newell was the face of Valve, he started as an employee ofMicrosoft. He discussed this in an interview withZalkar Salievon YouTube (as reported byPC Gamer), with Newell diving deep into his background before Valve, when he was getting his bearings as a fledgling programmer in High School....

With absolutely no fanfare whatsoever,Xboxhas casually confirmed that some of us will be able to playHollow Knight: Silksongin just a few weeks. As confirmed in ablog post, Xbox’s booth at Gamescom 2025 will include a playable demo of Silksong. This will be the first time that the long-awaited game is playable, and comes after years of waiting for development updates. Better yet, this makes it incredibly likely that Silksong will get a trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live....

Cailee Spaeny, who played the lead role of Rain Carradine in last year’s Alien Romulus, is reportedly in talks to star in A24’sElden Ringadaptation. This information comes fromJeff Sneider, who reports that Spaeny will reunite with director Alex Garland, with whom she worked in the Civil War film, and was cast by him in the science-fiction mini-series, Devs. Which Character Would Spaeny Play In Elden Ring? Spaeny could be joining Kit Connor (Warfare) and Ben Whishaw (Skyfall), both of whom are also reportedly in talks to play leading roles....

Summary Rolling the dice inDungeons & Dragonsis what makes the game unique. First-time players might get a bit intimidated by how many different types of dice there are, but veteran players only get more excited the more dice there are. More dice means more damage after all. But which of these dice is the most fun to roll at the table? We’ve discussed at length, and know that some of our rankings may be a bit of a hot take....

Earlier this year,Snail Games released a fully AI trailer for Ark: Aquatica, a huge underwater expansion for long-standing survival hitArk: Survival Evolved, to much backlash. The expansion has now been released to the world, and, quite simply, it has broken the game. Players have reported that their existing saves are no longer playable, their settings have been reset, and anymods they’d previously downloadedno longer function. This has, naturally, led to significant fallout among the community....

Summary Modding goes a long way to extending the longevity of a game.Skyrimhas thrived for over a decade thanks to mods; the classicDoomgames are as relevant today thanks to the countless fan-made expansions (which Bethesda recently brought to console); and, despite radio silence from Valve for over a decade,Half-Lifefans have feasted on unofficial remakes and incredible story-driven spin-offs, with Valve even permitting Crowbar Collective tosellBlack Mesa on its storefront. But not every publisher celebrates mods and the positive impact they can have....

We’ve known for some time that theXbox Series Swascreating issues for game developers. To get a game onXbox Series X, it has to be more or less the same experience on the weaker Series S model. While reduced framerates and visual quality are allowed, the same features should be there, and some devs have been struggling to account for that during this console generation. Now, another studio has voiced its concerns....