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March 2024

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March 30
- I never liked bullet hell shooters, until Xenotilt put one inside my new favourite pinball table
March 29
- I defied Capcom and spawned 99 of Dragon's Dogma 2's instakill 'Unmaking Arrows'
- I found Fake Joel, the viral Helldivers 2 hacker who rains unreleased vehicles from the sky and says players pay him to skip the grind
- Classic '90s space sim Star Wars: X-Wing had one mission that was so brutally hard, a fan cut up his floppy disks and mailed them back to LucasArts
- The yellow nozzle in PowerWash Simulator is OP and I both want them to sort this out and also never change it in any way
- Dragon's Dogma 2 is an object lesson in how system requirements pages are failing PC gamers
March 28
- I really enjoyed running around as a tiny ant in this upcoming RTS
- Even with the Dragonsplague, Dragon's Dogma 2 isn't as mean as its predecessor—but I love how faithful it is to the series' strange and unique identity
- I wonder how future historians will judge this image of Zuckerberg's 'jersey swap' with Jen-Hsun and his signature leather jacket
- '80s-styled online shooter Ascendant.com is getting a closed beta
- Diablo 4's new ray tracing update tested: It halves your frame rate for little visual gain, but I am definitely here for some Frame Generation
- Visions of Mana is exactly what it should be: mid-budget RPG comfort food
March 27
- Why do Helldivers 2 players like bugs more than robots?
- MSI's gaming monitors get huge discounts in Spring Sale
- Don't worry, Sand Land is much better than its dreadful demo, but maybe read the Akira Toriyama manga first
- Dune: Awakening's survival systems might do the impossible: make smashing boulders and collecting water fun
- I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to gaming FOMO, and you probably are too
- Geneforge 2: Infestation is not the old-fashioned CRPG it appears to be
March 26
- I've now played exactly one bullet hell FPS, and I'm ready for this to be the next big genre
- Win a $5,000 Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles-themed gaming PC
- We keep arguing about great games like Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 because it's always possible to love a good thing to death
- Dragon's Dogma 2 isn't a soulslike, but it has a lot more in common with Elden Ring than I expected
- I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways
March 25
- Razer's Blade gaming laptops have lost their edge
- I put nearly 100 hours into Dragon's Dogma 2 before I realised it was all just a tutorial for the Warfarer vocation
- How to buy your first gaming PC
- Join us in celebrating all things Elder Scrolls as the legendary RPG series turns 30
- Why the MSI Claw has the specs to dominate the handheld PC market
- The Elder Scrolls, ranked
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 25, 2024)
March 24
- Hyper Light Drifter's long-awaited sequel feels like the first game got caught in a transporter accident with Risk of Rain⁠ 2—and I can't wait for more
March 22
- I'm sad to see the old gang go, but Larian really doesn't need the Baldur's Gate IP or D&D to make another groundbreaking RPG
- Spending all day with MSI's disappointing new gaming laptops I've learned it's not just what's inside that counts
- This Soulslike RPG from the makers of the Ori series is steeped in lore and intrigue
- Dragon's Dogma 2: The best settings for your PC
March 21
- 5 crucial changes in Diablo 4's gigantic season 4 rework
- My favorite game at GDC is a first-person puzzler where you build a mansion of mysteries one room at a time
- Path of Exile 2 is a bold, blood-soaked sequel unchained from the first game's old school design
- With streamlined rules and an all-in-one box set, Fallout: Factions could be a perfect first step into wargaming
- Uncovering the secrets of Save As, debunking Y2K and bragging about Internet Explorer—take a trip to the Windows 98 webpage
March 20
- Peak Dragon's Dogma 2 is only recruiting the freakiest pawns in the realm, like my best friend Frog Nasty
- Dragon's Dogma 2 is a better game because it makes fast travel a hassle
- Lightyear Frontier is a cozy farming sim where you can deforest half the map with a fury that would make the Lorax weep
- Dragon's Dogma 2 performance analysis: It'll take everything your PC has and still want more
- Nvidia's new Blackwell AI GPU raises some tricky questions about its next-gen RTX 50-series graphics cards
March 19
- Void Bastards' space cowboy sequel has 13 different 'outlaws' you equip and swap like weapons, but if you play poorly they'll refuse to work together
March 18
- 'It's just cosmetics' monetisation doesn't quite hold up anymore, especially now it's started to make fully-priced games worse
- One of Treasure's all-time-great beat 'em ups owes its inspiration to a PC sidescroller from a developer mostly known for schoolgirl fighting games
- Library heists, bandit bribes, and multiple orgasms: how I became a happy king in medieval strategy sim Norland
March 17
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 18, 2024)
March 16
- To celebrate Hearthstone's 10th birthday I spoke to OG streamers and casters about their best metas, favourite moments, and most hated cards
March 15
- Diablo 4 and plenty more are hitting PC Game Pass in March
- Outcast - A New Beginning is old-fashioned PC gaming fun—but I just wish its hero didn't remind me of my own painful mortality so vividly
- The best deals in the 2024 Steam Spring Sale
March 14
- I've never sided with Caesar in Fallout: New Vegas but I'm guiltily playing his deck in Magic: The Gathering
- Lucas Pope's new Playdate exclusive is a delightful riff on Papers, Please, but for farty Martians and sad cyclops
- The original Alone in the Dark did more than invent survival horror—it pioneered new ways to play and new ways to fear
March 13
- AI voice acting is changing modding, and it's killing one of the best parts of the scene: The amateur voice actor with a cheap headset mic
- The Finals' first 5v5 mode is a brilliant twist on a Team Fortress 2 classic, and I really hope it takes off
- This Flash developer is battling 18 years of legacy code to bring my childhood favorite platformers to Steam
March 12
- Helldivers 2's armoured bugs and terrifying tanks can crush you flat, but that's why I love them so
- RTX Remix 'is the great equaliser' bringing veteran and hobbyist devs together to remaster the most beloved and best PC games
- What is general intelligence in the world of AI and computers? The race for the artificial mind explained
- One of the biggest Fallout modding projects in years is about to release, and if it goes wrong it could 'kill the Fallout modding scene'
March 11
- The new Contra: Operation Galuga crushed my skepticism with new ideas that actually work
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 11, 2024)
March 8
- With The Saboteur now on Steam, it's time to bring back Pandemic's true masterpiece and properly do the EA-shuttered studio justice
- The best MMOs on PC
- KING OF FIGHTERS' finest join Doomsday: Last Survivors for the ultimate crossover
- The Helldivers 2 dev who got downvoted to oblivion is right: We need to chill out about balance in a 4-week-old game
- The ToyBox mod lets you skip almost all the combat in Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader and play it like the choose-your-own-adventure it should have been
March 7
- Exclusive Hearthstone Whizbang's Workshop card reveals: Will these Mage spells bang?
- This clever survival RTS has such a fun and in-depth building system that it's got me making little roofs to keep my soldiers dry when it rains
- A company called Sweet Baby Inc. has become the target of 'anti-woke' gamers because it offers consultancy work, an industry-standard service that's been normal for years
- Convai aims to put an end to basic 'one-line' NPCs with AI but says it 'needs more high quality writers and artists, not less' to get it done
- Even 'cozy' gaming's biggest fans can't decide on its definition, but they aren't worried: 'There's a whole lot of grey area, and that's what makes it interesting'
- More than a decade before Helldivers 2, Arrowhead made one of my favourite co-op games, which only remains playable thanks to a fan
- Shogun’s excellent TV show made me go back and play the videogame adaptations, here's how they broke me as a man
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink doesn't really start until it's finished, and its incredibly generous endgame puts other RPGs to shame
March 6
- The Outlast Trials makes me sick to my stomach, but that's just because it's one of the best co-op horror games
- DNA storage has been talked about for years, but how close is it to becoming a reality?
March 5
- Dragon's Dogma 2 director says the secret ingredient to the sublime action combat in Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter and Dragon's Dogma is simple: Capcom's arcade DNA
- There's a rare kind of magic in Dragon's Dogma 2's blend of old-fashioned roleplaying and peak Capcom combat
- 'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute
March 4
- I don't usually play survival games or MMOs, but almost everything about Dune: Awakening looks way cooler than I expected
March 3
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 4, 2024)
March 2
- Helldivers 2 players are arguing over playing casually or sticking to the 'meta,' and they're both right
March 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in March
- The Sims 4's new Crystal Creations DLC basically gave me craftable cheat codes for boosting my mood, love life, and defying death
- The next adventure from the developer of Ori and the Blind Forest is a gripping soulslike action-RPG with a survival game twist