The developer behind Ori and the Blind Forest thinks action RPGs have room for improvement, and aims to “reinvent the genre” with its new game No Rest for the Wicked.

Launching on Steam Early Access early next year, No Rest for the Wicked will carry over Moon Studio’s painterly art style into an isometric “mature” world set on an island just after the death of its king and freshly corrupted by a transformative plague. You’ll fight beasts and invading armies with the gear you gather using a combat system “where skill and timing is required over simple ‘button-mashing.'”

“Fights in the game are animation-driven, direct, and tactile, allowing skilled players to combine visceral strikes and deadly moves,” Moon Studios says. Weapons will have unique movesets and there will be ene…

A bizarre but extremely thorough new report at IGN claims that a prominent advocate for accessibility in videogames, who co-founded the Can I Play That? website in 2018, may not have actually existed at all—but instead appears to be the creation of her purported romantic partner, Coty Craven.

Banks first appeared as One Odd Gamer Girl in 2015, and quickly grew to become a well-known member of the disabled gamer community, according to IGN’s report. In 2018, for instance, she was featured in an interview with leading videogame accessibility website AbleGamers; in 2019, following her reported death, the site paid tribute to Banks in “A Farewell to a Friend,” calling her an “amazing ally” and “a brilliant light in the fight for accessibility.”

But five years later, the IG…

In a recent interview with IGN, Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno didn’t mince words when it comes to his preference for actually exploring open worlds instead of zipping around via the map menu express: “Travel is boring? That’s not true. It’s only an issue because your game is boring. All you have to do is make travel fun.”

Both Dragon’s Dogma and its sequel have more limited forms of fast travel, requiring users to spend prize resources if they want to avoid going from point A to point B the old fashioned way. Itsuno is keen, however, to make sure that doesn’t result in uneventful slogs across the world map.

“We’ve put a lot of work into designing a game where you can stumble across someone and something will happen,” Itsuno explained. “While it’s fine if [a game] …

Back in the good old days of Bethesda RPGs (and I’m talking about Oblivion, Skyrim, and the Fallout games) when you killed a fool you could loot them of all their stuff. And I mean everything! Not just weapons and cash, but outfits, pieces of armor, helmets, hats, and dignity. When you looted a dead enemy in those games, you left behind nothing but a corpse in its underwear.

To the disappointment of many, Starfield works a bit differently. You can sometimes get a helmet or spacesuit off a dead foe, but usually when you loot someone you just come away with their weapons, maybe some credits or aid items, and perhaps a few other odds and ends. That can be a bummer if you ice someone who’s got some nice clothes or a spacesuit you’d really like to wear or sell.

Now there’s a fix …

There are some many great PC games that you can play right now, so what better way to get stuck in by grabbing this bargain of a gaming laptop at $800. The Core i7 12650H processor has six P-cores and four E- cores, which is more than enough for most games and pretty much any school or office-level application. Anything more powerful would be wasted, when the rest of the laptop is better matched to this CPU.

The RTX 4060 Mobile graphics chip has 3,072 shaders, a boost clock of 1,890MHz, and 8GB of VRAM. It’s best suited for gaming at 1080p, which is ideal as that’s the resolution of the 15.6-inch screen. With a refresh rate of 144Hz, it will be very easy on the eyes and in games that support it, you’ll be able to use DLSS 3.5 features to improve the game’s performance to match tha…

Close-up images of AMD’s RX 7900 XT have revealed what appear to be connection points used with 3D chip stacking technologies. Engineer Tom Wassick has zoomed in on the memory chiplets within the Navi 31 GPU, known as MCDs, and what he’s found are tiny “spots” that appear similar to those on AMD’s V-Cache CPUs.

According to Wassick (via Tom’s Hardware), who has viewed AMD’s latest GPU with an infrared camera, these spots could show a latent ability in the RDNA 3 GPU that would allow AMD to stack another chip on top of the MCD.

It was rumoured back in the development process for the Navi 31 GPU that AMD would implement stacked MCDs, but reportedly decided against it, at least for the first chips. There have been rumours of a Navi 31 refresh later in the year, but equally cont…

Tell me an RPG developer used a tabletop roleplaying system to sketch out the design for their new videogame? I sleep. Tell me the creator of Kerbal Space Program used another sim—the most popular city builder of the past decade—to create the map for his model plane flight simulation? Real shit. I can’t think of a more PC gaming solution to indie game development.

I recently chatted with Felipe “HarvesteR” Falanghe about Kitbash Model Club, a relaunched version of a game he first released in early access in 2021. At the time it was called Balsa Model Flight Simulator, but Falanghe explained the new name, new publisher, and new scope (read about all that here). 

Then we started talking about the map. Kitbash Model Club is set in a bay with a pair of …

Get ready for cuteness overload: Stray, the game about a nice red cat doing cat stuff, is now doing a rad thing in the real world by raising money for various cat charities. America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) spoke to some of the individuals involved during a news segment, which can be viewed here, where publisher Annapurna’s Jeff Legaspi says the idea of partnering with such organisations “was a bit of a no brainer for us”.

Brendan Gepson of the Nebraska Humane Society, an animal rescue organisation, says it was able to offer game codes on social media in exchange for $5 donations towards their work. “It was very successful,” says Gepson, “from the initial fundraiser we raised about $8,000”.

The segment shows some extremely cute IRL rescue cats, inclu…

Redditor Clashmains_2account decided that if Nvidia wasn’t ever going to make a mini-ITX version of the RTX 3060 Founders Edition, they would take it upon themselves to make an adorable pint-sized GPU of their own. 

The modified graphics card is a Gainward RTX 3060 Pegasus, which underwent alterations including a custom shroud and heatsink. These components were designed using CAD and then 3D printed to mimic the appearance of the metal casing found on an Nvidia Founders Edition GPU. Additionally, Clashmains incorporated a 92mm Noctua fan that closely resembles those seen on Founders Editions (and offers better cooling).

Sadly, this is a test build, so it’s more for show than overclocking. During testing, Clashmains discovered that the PLA filament used for printing the…

There’s a clue for today’s Wordle just a little further down this page, ready to point you in the right direction without spoiling your daily guessing fun. Keep going (or click straight to it) and you’ll soon find the March 4 (989) answer, waiting to save your game and your win streak.

If anyone asks, it wasn’t a fumble, it was an interesting scenic route to today’s Wordle answer, okay? A test. Of Wordle. To see if, um, to see how many times I could be almost right but still expertly dodge the correct word. On purpose. And definitely not because I missed it by being careless. Maybe tomorrow’s game will be more direct.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, March 4

Not really a fire itself, but a visible part of it.…