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September 18
- How translators performed the herculean task of localizing the most incomprehensibly British videogame of all time into German, Portuguese and Traditional Chinese: 'What on Earth are these characters even talking about?'
- 'I had no idea what had happened': Final Fantasy 16's Ben Starr on becoming a meme, playing angsty roles, and which series summon he'd take on a date
- AI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions
- PC gaming made me a better drummer than I had any right to be—all thanks to an electronic kit and open source software
- 11 totally unnecessary multiplayer modes of the 2010s that you've almost certainly forgotten existed
- Heed the call to battle in Hero Wars: Dominion era
- TCG Card Shop Simulator may just be one of the best games I've played all year, despite having to fight off hordes of stinky customers
- Amazon Prime Day 2024 PC gaming deals in Australia: the sale is returning in October, so brace yourself
September 17
- How to get cores in Frostpunk 2
- Burden of Command is a WW2 wargame that saddles you with anxiety over each soldier's life
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Reckoning of New York just feels like the adventures of the World of Darkness' most annoying kindred
- See how hard Space Marine 2's photo mode goes in the hands of an expert Warhammer 40,000 painter
- Unknown 9: Awakening feels like a AA videogame from the late 2000s, and so far that isn't a bad thing
September 16
- Here's what you need to know before picking up Star Wars Outlaws
- Revisiting the D&D games of my youth really makes me appreciate how much better things are today
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 16, 2024)
September 13
- The 'reverse' localization of PC classic MechWarrior shows just how far ahead Japanese PC tech was in the early '90s
- I played Roblox's hottest game that's sweeping social media and got my ass handed to me by a bunch of 12-year-olds
- Gray Zone Warfare's first big update is coming and it feels like a game-changer
- Hollowbody is an English cyberpunk Silent Hill, for better and worse
- Sure, not every space game needs them, but just for the record: seamless planetary landings are cool as hell
September 12
- Space Marine 2 is a 2007 game in the best way possible
- The new EVE survival MMO is using blockchain tech to create a 'boiling financial hellscape,' but don't call it a blockchain game
- Finally, a game that knows the best bit of being a witch is creeping everyone out
September 11
- Deadlock gives me the same feeling Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 did before they consumed my life
- Yeah, at $700 the PS5 Pro is expensive for a console, but I spent more than double that on my GPU alone
- Should you buy a Steam Deck instead of a PS5 Pro? How about instead of a new car you buy a boat?—these things are not the same
- PC vs. PS5 Pro: Making PC gaming more relevant than ever
- Ray tracing has taken its first steps at becoming the rendering norm for triple-A games but that just makes upscaling and frame generation a Hobson's choice
- World of Warcraft: The War Within
- How to make your factory way better than satisfactory in Satisfactory
September 10
- Atomfall is a very British take on Stalker, where you explore a post-disaster Cumberland with a cricket bat
- I played some Little Nightmares 3, and it's the best horror about being lost and tiny in an unfathomable hellscape since Little Nightmares 2
September 9
- I queued for a Final Fantasy 14 boss fight in real life and it was shockingly similar to doing it from the comfort of my PC
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's competitive PvP mode makes the Imperium's towering super-soldiers feel like they're made of paper
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 9, 2024)
September 8
- I was always mod-skeptical with Baldur's Gate 3, but being able to install them with one click has completely changed my mind
September 7
- Wild Bastards is channeling its creators' previous work on BioShock with its powers and combos, and even its most normal, 'all rounder' character is a cyborg horse with a lever rifle
September 6
- Everyone assumes it's game over, but Intel's huge bet on 18A is still very much game on
- Black Myth: Wukong would feel a lot more epic if it didn't keep faking scale so poorly
- The Sims 4 is now a decade old, the longest-running game in the series, and its age is seriously showing
September 5
- 'How big can we go?': PUBG creator Brendan Greene on founding a studio to build his Earth-sized digital world
- The first Black Ops 6 beta was bland even for Call of Duty
- 'People can type misinformation into a word processor': Bill Gates hand-waves the problem of AI fakery and focuses on the positives
- Planning to play The War Within? Here's everything you need to know about World of Warcraft's story at the start of The Worldsoul Saga
- Gimmick 2's platforming offers a satisfying frustration I haven't felt since Celeste
- How Dungeon Stalkers is trying to make the extraction genre more approachable for everyone
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's skill trees might've twisted my node-loving, build-tinkering sicko arm just enough to get me excited about playing it
September 4
- Gaming laptops on sale: top Australian deals in September 2024
- Concord's catastrophic failure has made me even more worried about Bungie's Marathon
- Spine – This is Gun Fu is shaping up to be a high-octane John Wick simulator and a lot of fun, but it'll all hinge on how its team sands down the rough edges
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 performance analysis—Blurry upscaling, mushy graphics, and so-so frame rates
- This absurd delivery game where you can smash through buildings was my favourite game at an event where I also played the Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill remakes
- Is there any chance of a Concord comeback? Here are 5 other times major PC games failed to launch, and what happened next
September 3
- Gundam Breaker 4 is the ideal mech building sandbox for mobile suit sickos
- 10 major Sims 4 features I totally forgot it didn't have at launch 10 years ago
- This reimagined NES game reminded me that remakes can be awesome, actually
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is downright gorgeous, and feels like it's using modern tech to fully realise the atmosphere the first game strove for
September 2
- Cairn might be the best climbing game I've ever played, and I wish it was released already
- Slow down—World of Warcraft: The War Within's best stories lie in its side quests and optional conversations
- How MechWarrior 5: Clans is bringing a narrative focus and intricate, handcrafted missions back to the storied series
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 2, 2024)
September 1
- Why Doom 3 is still an important and misunderstood game