Latest articles by Dominic Tarason
Antonblast comes out swinging to challenge Pizza Tower's chaotic platformer rule
News Antonblast confidently banks on bright colours, loud noises and Wario Land nostalgia.
New physics fighter Gladio Mori sends animators where they belong: The gladiator pit
News Gladio Mori frankensteins together Toribash, Die By The Sword and Bushido Blade then sends it to the Early Access arena.
Retro RPG The Edge Of Allegoria does it like Nintendon’t, with rude words and fat blunts
news The Edge of Allegoria riffs off Pokemon with monochrome, low-fi blackjack and hookers.
Just Grill the Steak—what else do you want from this micro-scale cooking simulator that made me very hungry?
News Just Grill the Steak makes a low stakes game of searing the perfect sirloin.
Devilated tries to fuse Doom Eternal with Borderlands and loses its mind in the process
Infernal A high-powered mutant freak of an FPS that defies all reason.
Songs of Silence is a gorgeous 4X game for people who don't have time for 4X games
Sonorous Songs of Silence trades some 4X grit for auto-battling, comprehensible cards and impeccable style.
Even half-finished, Path of Exile 2 is shaping up to be one of 2024's best action RPGs
Return of the king The early access build promises spectacular boss battles and a massive endgame.
The best Half-Life 2 mods: 20th anniversary edition
Occupied A fistful of mods for Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, for Free Men and Women of all stripes.
Metal Slug Tactics review: Beats the odds to capture Metal Slug’s spirit
Slugfest Metal Slug Tactics makes turn-based run-and-gun work with style… most of the time.
Tarnished Blood is a time-bending tactical RPG that plays like nothing I've ever tried before
Action replay Put lives on the (time)line.
Dead Estate wraps up 3 years of free expansions with a fond Good Night
News Four new zones, seventy items, thirty-one guns and all the nightmare horror references you can dream up
Silly Polly Beast is a stylish, spooky survival horror game where you're packing some serious firepower
News Beast mode.
Overthrown is another cozy city builder, but this time you're a killer queen who can lift buildings and murder bandits
News All monarchs should be this proactive.
What's the best way to deal with an army of the dead? Send some Cajun toads after them, of course
News Toads of the Bayou's demo serves up some Louisiana-style squad deckbuilding.
9 games from the PC Gamer Top 100 given eternal life thanks to modders
Top 100 Some games contain multitudes (of mods) that elevate them from great to timeless.
Playing Echo Point Nova is like diving through someone's dreams after they've played too much Titanfall or Tribes
Dream Big Time for some sky-surfing.
I died more than 1,200 times in this panicky first-person riff on Celeste's platforming and it's now one of my favorite games of the year
The Descent Lorn’s Lure is a surprisingly scary and brutally tough cyber-dungeon mountaineering trip.
Why Doom 3 is still an important and misunderstood game
Doot 3 Looking back at the unloved Doom 3 with decades of hindsight.
In Dustborn, the quiet moments speak loudest
Big Chillin The road-trip adventure makes its negative space the star of the show.
Exoborne is making the extraction shooter less punishing, and taking storytelling notes from Hades
NEWS Sharkmob doesn't want to scare off potential extraction shooter fans who've only seen stressful Tarkov clips.
Fast rounds, forgiving combat, and bad weather: Hands-on with extraction shooter Exoborne
HANDS-ON The studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt is making an accessible extraction shooter, and the first gameplay is here.
Doom 2's first true expansion since the '90s showcases just how much modding has improved in 30 years
Stainless Legacy of Rust, included in the new Doom + Doom 2 bundle, is just as good as MachineGames' modern Quake expansions.
Earth Defense Force 6 review: a masterclass in asset recycling
Starship Bloopers Earth Defense Force 6 elevates meathead B-movie action with a smart time travel twist.
