Bungie's Marathon reboot released yesterday, but you might not get that impression from the developer's coverage embargo guidelines, which request that critics delay their "full review and impressions" until the launch of a "pinnacle endgame zone and experience" later in March. …
After months of delaying , price worries , and scarce component-wrangling , the new Steam Machine is ready for launch. …
… And now that line has seen its end, as Shapez 2 has left early access today, arriving at its 1.0 release a little less than two years on from its original launch. Shapez 2 Electric Boogaloo? is a factory-building game distilled to its most base elements: the factory building. …
Last month, publisher Kwalee released their first game made in house as part of their studio Kwalee Labs, Luna Abyss , a first-person bullet-hell platforming adventure game about a prisoner exploring a derelict megastructure. Now, it appears that the entire team that made the game has been laid off. …
… A good gamepad? Yes, so says I in our Steam Controller review , which has also been freed from its own embargo limbo. It’s not clear whether launching without the new Steam Machine, the soulmate status of which was apparent back in the earliest previews , will affect the Controller’s fortunes. …
… One patch significantly improved ray tracing performance across a bunch of games, while another – released yesterday, and thus not part of my original review testing – gave a big framerate boost to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle , by far the slowest of my benchmark games. …
… Also, HDR will sometimes turn off when you exit the game, and need to be manually re-enabled. A few players are finding that the autosave is on the blink, too, with repeated "Save Failed" notifications even before you start a game. …
With just a day or two to go till Subnautica 2 's early access launch, "unofficial builds" of the ocean survival game have leaked onto the internet. …
… Game pages will apparently be more detailed too, with again some tailoring done for each user to "show what's relevant to them based on where they are in the game." In the up next section of the roadmap, there's also a mention of user written reviews, the absence of which is a commonly levied criti… …
… After Facepunch founder Garry Newman was quick to confirm the studio would be "taking action to promote human creativity and push obviously AI-created slop off the main page" following S&box's launch to mixed reviews, the game's latest update has taken aim at punishing creations with AI-generated t… …