There are almost no excuses left to skip Signalis, our favorite horror game of 2022. It’s 20% off for the Steam horror sale and it just received a patch that lets you bypass our biggest problem with it.

Signalis plays like old Resident Evils—third-person shooting from various over-the-head camera angles—while you explore abandoned facilities warped by nightmarish monsters and dream logic like in Silent Hill. One of the first things you pick up is a copy of The King In Yellow—it gets weird fast.

For $15.99, you can experience what might be one of the best horror games in the last 10 years. In our review of Signalis, Dominic Tarason said it “takes a hundred familiar elements, inspirations and references and weaves them into something entirely new, and thoroug…

Naughty Dog’s prestige third-person narrative game The Last of Us Part 1 is sitting on a Steam user rating of Mixed right now, with only 43% of user reviews giving it a thumbs up. Those user reviews on the negative tip say things like, “Hot stuttering garbage even on low settings” and “as broken as my household.” In a word: ouch.

“We know some of you have not experienced the Naughty Dog quality you expected”, begins the developer’s Twitter thread addressed to The Last of Us Part 1 PC players. “Our team is working hard to resolve issues currently preventing some of you from experiencing the game to ensure it reaches the quality level you expect and deserve.

“A hotfix addressing jittering on mouse-controlled camera movement, some crashes, and more for The Last of Us P…

After all these years, Bethesda Game Studios has finally released one of its signature RPGs with functional ladders. Glorified teleporters no more: Starfield’s ladders have proper interactive climbing animations, and since Starfield makes an attempt at somewhat realistic spacecraft designs, its ships naturally contain lots of them. 

Also naturally, because it’s just a law of the universe that players will defy game developers in every possible way they can, one person has dedicated their Starfield ship building efforts to avoiding ladders.

I fixed it! The superiority of StroudEklunds side mounted bay. Truly ZERO ladders, 9k cargo, 68 mobility, and 130 speed, no mods. from r/Starfield

“The superiority of StroudEklunds side moun…

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Blizzard has officially unveiled Overwatch 2’s next support hero as Juno, a bubbly astronaut healer who will be playable in a limited-time “hero trial” that starts on July 19—that’s tomorrow—and runs until July 21 on all platforms.

Juno will be accessible in all game modes except Competitive during the trial period, and will also be available in the No Limits mode in the Overwatch arcade, which will enable everyone in the game to play as Juno instead of racing to pick her first.

Details on the new hero’s abilities haven’t been revealed at this point but today’s trailer showcases some highlights: Juno’s Mediblaster weapon, which seems to heal or harm depending on who it’s aimed at, her Glide Boost ability that looks like a limited form of flight (or maybe…

A group of over a hundred dedicated fans has completed a project to add voice acting to the entirety of Hollow Knight, Team Cherry’s beloved (and still sequel-less) Metroidvania whose NPCs have, up to now, been generally pretty quiet.

Spotted by TheGamer, Hallownest Vocalized has been in the works for a while now—its reveal trailer went up in August 2021—but it finally crossed the finish line last weekend. With the aid of a frankly unwieldy number of voice actors from the Hollow Knight fan community, it replaces the various warbles and meeps that constitute the sum total of standard Hollow Knight’s voicework with actual, fully-voiced dialogue. You can get a taste of it in the launch trailer above.

It doesn’t stop at NPC dialogue, though. The mad lads actually wen…

Look, I’m not one to criticise—which is weird, given my job—but the Suicide Squad could not have been given clearer instructions. Their gig was killing the Justice League. Their gig was so much killing the Justice League that it’s in the name of the game—Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Killing the Justice League was the order of the day, and your chefs de cuisine? The Suicide Squad, who would be killing the Justice League.

Anyway, the Suicide Squad have begun bringing the Justice League back to life.

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That’s right, folks, we’ve been hornswoggled. Spoilers ahead for Suicide Squad’s latest season, but it turns out all those deaths were—in reality—mere comic book deaths (via Polygon). Suici…

Dating apps wouldn’t be half as cursed if your matches couldn’t blatantly lie about their interests or relationship status on their profile—or go on weird red flag rants beside the profile pic of them holding a fish. Such is the more perfect world envisioned by the new Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion, which puts the personality traits of prospective partners on display in the new Cupid’s Corner dating app, adds customizable dates, and a more fleshed out system of attraction where you can decide if your Sim is only into brunettes or has a homewrecking habit.

As a Build/Buy mode enthusiast, I wouldn’t be head over heels for Lovestruck on my own dime, but for the Live Mode folks who love nothing more than stirring up a pot of drama, this expansion has attractive qualities.…

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s cinematic trailer dropped exactly a month before the expansion’s release, and the collective response was about what you would expect: “This is rad, but I have no idea what’s going on.” Now, though? Well I have kind of an idea what’s going on after spending 80 hours or so in the DLC, and it’s all about as grim and unsettling as you’d expect.

Spoilers for Shadow of the Erdtree ahead.

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Right off the jump, we now know that the bloody gate of corpses Marika is hanging out around at the beginning of the trailer is the Divine Gate from Promised Consort Radahn’s boss fight at the top of Enir Elim, only when we get there the bodies are calcified and bleached white by the ages⁠—in this primeval moment, …

A recent datamine of Baldur’s Gate 3‘s absurdly huge wealth of voice lines continues to deliver. Not just in helping us uncover dark, dark futures regarding Scratch—it’s also given us a peek behind the curtain at the game’s development.

As spotted by Team_Purple on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit (thanks Gamesradar), Astarion’s final romance scene has a hilarious dev note—presumably from a writer who knows the fabulous stylings of Neil Newbon a little too well.

Found a hilarious devnote for Astarion’s final romance scene from r/BaldursGate3

“Cinematic context: Turning to the player, taking their hands in his for a moment,” begins the note, followed by: “NodeContext: Slightly horny. (ONLY SLIGHTLY, NEIL)”.…