
New World: Aeternum Is Shutting Down, and It Deserved Better
New World: Aeternum finally has a shutdown date, and Amazon's MMO is going out the way it lived, full of wasted potential. A look back at the game that hooked me and then broke my heart.


New World: Aeternum finally has a shutdown date, and Amazon's MMO is going out the way it lived, full of wasted potential. A look back at the game that hooked me and then broke my heart.

Cyberpunk 2077 just crossed 40 million copies sold and CD Projekt is celebrating a historic comeback. As a betrayed 2020 preorder buyer, I'm floored by the ray tracing and still unconvinced Night City ever got a soul.

HUNGER drops the extraction shooter formula into plague-ridden Napoleonic Europe: muskets, brutal melee, and deep RPG progression. After RachtaZ's new-player deep dive and the Steam page, I'm sold, with one request for the developers: turn off the sun.

Valheim is finally leaving early access with version 1.0 and Steam achievements, so I started a fresh solo run to get ready for launch with friends. Fifteen fog-blind hours in Mistlands later, I have complaints about how this game treats effort.

Czech Games Edition has announced an official Kingdom Come: Deliverance board game for 1 to 4 players, designed by Tomas Holek and Vlaada Chvatil. A strictly single-player saga is finally getting a table.