Latest articles by Robin Valentine
Forget Skull and Bones, there's another pirate game out on Steam this week that's plundered my heart with turn-based naval combat and pirate presidential campaigns
NEWS Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale is a more in-depth take on leading your own marauding fleet.
Deep Rock Galactic's first spin-off is out now in Early Access, and it's the best auto-shooter since Vampire Survivors
NEWS Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is already a complete and satisfying roguelike, and this is only the beginning.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's forgettable enemies, empty missions, and incongruous gun obsession prove why superheroes and live service do not mix
DEAD ON ARRIVAL Rocksteady's latest represents nearly a decade of work wasted on a combo that simply doesn't work.
This 'rustic fantasy' tabletop RPG couldn't feel more different to D&D: 'That sense of the hidden and the spiritual has just been dumped, and we want to bring that back to life'
MIST CONNECTION Legend in the Mist is a fantasy follow-up to the smash hit TTRPG City of Mist, and it's on Kickstarter now.
This drill-wielding platformer lets you dive through the earth like a dolphin torpedo
DRILL THRILLS Pepper Grinder is a speedrunner's dream, and there's a free demo on the way.
Kill whole camps of cultists with a single bullet in this psychic and psychedelic puzzle shooter
THE MIND KILLER Children of the Sun is a mind-bending combo of action movie flash and backwoods madness.
Bore Blasters' brilliantly silly arcade action finally combines the mining power of dwarves and helicopters
CHOPPER ORE And it's got a free demo on Steam right now.
PC gaming's many launchers, reviewed for 2024: Steam still puts the rest to shame
LAUNCH BREAK Let's put a score on them all—the good, the bad, and the GOGly.
Meet the amateur developer who's found success in 'the worst videogame of all time'
WORST IMPRESSIONS Monster Sniper Season 3 is an absolute disaster—and that's the point.
Warhammer Fantasy is back—and now it's getting a new tabletop RPG too
NEWS Cubicle 7 will be releasing a tie-in to Games Workshop's grand revival of the setting.
The sexiest thing in Cult of the Lamb's big 'sex update' is a demonic blunderbuss
FLOCK TEASE Wham bam thank you lamb.
Legendary D&D and videogame designer Jennell Jaquays is getting a memorial megadungeon built in her honour
NEWS Return to Perinthos will be a crowdfunded book of dungeon adventuring, with profits benefiting Jaquays' family and the charity Trans Lifeline.
The 5 most ridiculously broken builds in D&D history
BUILD ME UP From chicken summoners to psionic sandwiches.
The new tabletop RPG from the creators of City of Mist is 'rustic fantasy' but 'not another D&D clone'
NEWS Legend in the Mist will be designed for Lord of the Rings-inspired narrative-first adventure, with a Kickstarter launching February.
The biggest PC gaming trends of 2023: 3 that need to stop, and 3 I hope continue into 2024
AROUND THE TRENDS The good, the bad, and a lot of ugly PC ports.
A new teaser for Arcane season 2 gives us a glimpse at Vander's dark fate
NEWS And there's going to be a lot more Arcane content coming to League of Legends this year.
You can now play the most infuriating game of all time in your browser, and for some reason I'm hopelessly addicted
NEWS Monster Sniper Season 3 is an absolute nightmare, and that's very much intentional.
What are your 2024 gaming resolutions?
HI RES Maybe this is the year you clear that backlog...
What games did everyone play over the holidays?
happy new year 'Tis the season to be gaming.
A TikToker is trying to deliberately make the worst videogame of all time—and now they're trapped in a hell of their own making
NEWS Unskippable dialogue, an auto-scrolling escort mission, and a dog that explodes into ants when you pet it.
Steam's 2023 GOTY nominations are extremely weird, and I guess that's your fault
NEWS Maybe democracy doesn't work after all.
