Author: PC Gamesn
When is the Zenless Zone Zero beta? The latest gacha offering from HoYoverse is an urban fantasy adventure unlike either Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail. It stands to reason that you might want to find out if it’s to your liking ahead of its release date. That’s where beta periods come in. While it’s still some time until the Zenless Zone Zero release date, HoYoverse has granted us a glimpse at the initial line-up of Zenless Zone Zero characters and story via the Zenless Zone Zero beta. Otherwise known as the Equalizing Test, the action-adventure game‘s second closed beta test period is imminent. Here’s how to find out if you’ve…
While we await more news on the upcoming Path of Exile 2, set to launch in early access later this year, developer Grinding Gear Games has more immediate news with the imminent next league, Path of Exile Necropolis. Amid the bombastic launch of Last Epoch on Steam and Blizzard’s promised major item rework for Diablo 4 Season 4, along with the upcoming Titan Quest 2 and Grim Dawn’s Fangs of Asterkarn expansion, it’s a busy time to be an ARPG fan, but the Path of Exile 3.24 update shows that the champion of the genre isn’t resting on its laurels.…
I love Helldivers 2. While Balatro and Last Epoch might have stolen slightly more hours of my time so far this year, Arrowhead Game Studios’ bombastic co-op game repeatedly delivers these incredible moments of tension, panic, wonder, and elation; the kind of moments that make my brain shout, “This is the best game ever made.” Yet, for all its masterful execution and an ever-expanding arsenal including the recent arrival of mechs, my favorite thing from the original Helldivers is still absent. As a huge fan of the first game, one of the most impressive things about Helldivers 2 is how…
To mark the impending release of Stardew Valley 1.6 I’m bringing together all of Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone’s patch note teases for the update. We know we’ll be getting an extra big chest for storage, three new annual festivals, new items and recipes, extra dialogue, and a whole lot more with 1.6, so here’s everything else Barone has teased in the patch notes so far in one handy place. As the Stardew Valley 1.6 release date draws incredibly close, Barone has been teasing a lot of the major and minor changes to the farming game. As I write this we’ve still…
The Binding of Isaac remains one of the most fundamental pillars of the modern roguelike, leading us into plenty more top-down games with bullet hell elements including Enter the Gungeon, Nuclear Throne, Children of Morta, and ultimately even the likes of Hades. Released via Steam Early Access in November 2023, Magicraft is one such game with very promising ideas, blending a unique spellcrafting system reminiscent of the likes of Noita or Magicka with that familiar Isaac-style perspective. Magicraft is very much a more classic take on some of the best roguelike games in the Binding of Isaac mold, but its…
If you’re in the market for a 2D platformer in the vein of games like Blasphemous, Castlevania, and Dark Souls, the upcoming Skelethrone might just be for you. With plenty of non-linear Metroidvania progression and a 2D combat system clearly inspired by the work of FromSoftware, the game’s free Steam demo is definitely worth a shot. With a Metroidvania game framework, Skelethrone just dropped a free Steam prologue, so basically a demo, that you can try right now ahead of the full release later this year. Called Skelethrone: The Prey, the demo channels the exploration and bosses of the full…
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is one of those experiences I’ll never forget; the world, characters, and story from the 1997 original are brought to life in such a way that it’ll stick with me forever. If you’ve never played it and are looking for something in the Steam Spring Sale I can’t recommend it enough, especially with the mod scene still active for the PC port. With FF7 Rebirth sure to also get a port in the next few years, it’s worth brushing up. Is Final Fantasy 7 Remake bloated? Yes. Does it have some less-than-interesting side content? Also yes.…
A new Zenless Zone Zero beta test is incoming, and you can sign up now to take part. The next big RPG from Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail makers HoYoverse, the upcoming preview of the self-styled urban fantasy action RPG promises “significant changes to the combat and Hollow exploration systems” from the previous test, along with a new character and faction. If you’re looking to take part, Zenless Zone Zero pre-registration is live now to get involved. With the Zenless Zone Zero release date loosely expected to land in late 2024, and more action-driven combat that bears closer resemblance…
Before Bungie made Halo, the studio made a Doom rival called Marathon. This classic FPS trilogy bears little resemblance to Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter reboot that bears the same name, but between 1994 and 1996 the trilogy of Marathon games would provide, in a lot of ways, the baseline for what would go on to become Halo on the Xbox. While freely playable for years thanks to an open-source fan project, the original Classic Marathon is now coming to Steam. If you’ve never played Marathon, think of it like Doom’s distant cousin that focuses on sci-fi and narrative over hardcore…
Dark and Darker is coming back. The Dungeons and Dragons style hardcore RPG and PvPvE extraction dungeon crawler has been absent from major distribution platforms following its removal from sale on Steam back in April 2023. Now, almost one year later, after running the game through other storefronts, developer Ironmace has “started preparations on introducing Dark and Darker to a wider audience” – starting with perhaps Steam’s biggest rival, the Epic Games Store. “As a first step, we are happy to announce the launch of the Dark and Darker store page on the Epic Games Store,” Ironmace developer ‘Terence’ writes…