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A cute tower defense game launched last week that has you use tetromino blocks in order to DIY a tower defense maze. Emberward, the debut title from indie studio Refic Games, is a creative little game that makes you use your head to puzzle out ideal layouts for your maze before using a suite of towers you’ve chosen yourself to defend the bonfire at its center. There’s a demo out now that lets you play through the first area with a slightly limited set of abilities.

It’s a pretty neat setup. Each run through you’re given a starting set of towers and a deck of blocks, but from there you get new towers and blocks for your deck from winning a few waves of attackers per level. You also get experience to build out your chosen character’s talent tree, and you find relics along t…

Helldivers 2 is a massive success, and while that’s come at a cost—former Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt, who’s now moved into a mainly creative role, told GamesIndustry that they received “horrifying” threats from some players—it’s also helped inspire some major ambitions for the future of Arrowhead. Pilestedt isn’t looking to take the studio public, though, but he does have hopes that it could one day become “the next FromSoftware or Blizzard.”

Among many other things, that will mean adapting to the spotlight. For the most part, Pilestedt says that  interactions with the community have been positive, but it hasn’t been perfect, of course: Concerns about game balance are something the studio has recently resolved to address, and of course there was the big mess wi…

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Somewhere between dungeon crawler and visual novel and satire we’ve got upcoming game Mops & Mobs: A Sweeping Dungeon Novel—release date to be announced, demo available now. In it you’re the janitor for a fantasy dungeon populated by weird monsters, often-raided by adventurers, and lorded over by some kind of Dungeon Master who, it seems, is well-loved but not particularly capable.

“Welcome to your new job! As the dungeon’s janitor you take care of our monsters’ well-being, pick up adventurers’ left-over limbs, decorate the dungeon and find ways to let our beloved Dungeon Master look more competent,” reads the official description.

Billing itself as a “Visual Novel slash Dungeon Crawler slash Room Decoration Simulator” I must say that Mops & Mobs has a…

At some point you have to admit you’ve been outsmarted. And yet, none of the bad guys in the new PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted trailer for Spine, a cyberpunk gun fu beat ’em up, will give up.

Maybe it’s because one of them actually managed to defeat Spine’s street-artist-turned-John-Wick protagonist—temporarily. Despite getting bashed through a window by a riot shield (it’s always the riot shield guys), she shows right back up again to fight these armed men in the most cinematic locations ever.

One guy has his arm broken at golden hour in some ritzy high-rise, another guy Wilhelm Screams as he is thrown off a city bridge at twilight, and the bravest member opts for a brawl on the roof of a train that immediately falls apart. Spine looks to be a game whe…

Here at PC Gamer, we are disciples of science. From hardware to software, from Counter-Strike strats to Starfield guides, everything we do is guided by a fundamental respect for the principles laid down by Aristotle or whatever and with an eye to giving you, the reader, the fullest breadth and depth of information possible.

So when Doritos, the crisps people, announced they’d released a profoundly stupid AI noise suppression tool meant to “cancel the crunch” when you eat (I presume) Doritos while gaming with friends, we immediately knew what had to be done. Science. Science had to be done, and I had to be the one to do it.

I’ve devised a rigorous empirical test to measure the effectiveness of Doritos’ new tech using five popular UK crisp brands and a copy of Fyodor Dostoevsk…

Old School RuneScape has released a sequel to an 18 year-old quest, spotted by GamesRadar+, one which has immediately caused confusion as players rushed to bag the new loot it comes with… and in most cases, didn’t get it. Desert Treasure 2: The Fallen Empire is the MMO’s first Grandmaster quest since 2019 and is a sequel to, you guessed it, Desert Treasure (released in 2005). It sees players returning to the Kharidian Desert to explore a big old vault and take on the lich-like Mahjarrat.

This is kind of brought about by circumstance, and the unique way Jagex maintains RuneScape and OS RuneScape, with the latter essentially its own fork in the road. OS RuneScape was created using an archive dated August 2007 and contains nothing added to RuneScape after this da…

A good monitor will last you many years but that doesn’t mean you have to spend a small fortune on getting the largest OLED display you can get. Pick the right budget gaming monitor and you’ll have a screen that will be more than good enough for nearly every PC gamer.

One of the best cheap gaming monitors I’d buy myself is the ASRock Phantom Gaming PG27FF1A for just $120 at Newegg. It has a 27-inch IPS panel, with a resolution of 1080p and a maximum refresh rate of 165 Hz. There’s even support for FreeSync Premium variable refresh rate, to ensure smooth, tear-free gaming.

Tucked underneath the panel’s edge are two HDMI 2.0 ports, one DisplayPort 1.2, and a 3.5 mm headset socket. While those aren’t the latest versions, they’re more than good enough for 1080p 165 Hz.

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