How to mine the petrified Gammeltroll in Valheim

Have you met Valheim 1.0’s mountainous menace, the Gammeltroll? If you’ve made your way to Valheim’s final biome, the Deep North, you’ve probably seen and fought it already: the Gammeltroll is a 30-foot tall rock monster who pelts you with tree trunks from range and stomps you into paste if you get too close. Most…

Halloween Review: Bespoke Boogeyman – Game Informer

I start up Tiny Tim’s 1968 song, “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” as I creep closer to an unsuspecting Civilian, breathing heavily behind the stark white mask of Michael Myers, moving close enough for proximity chat to turn on. The player controlling the Civilian before me shrieks, shouting, “Aw hell no, it’s Pennywise!” Pennywise is not…

Sinking City 2 Review: A Very Good Resident Evil-Like Experience

Very few games gross me out. Frogwares’ recently released Lovecraftian survival horror game, The Sinking City 2, is one of the few things I’ve played that truly made me go “Bleh.” It’s a game filled with nasty worms, disgusting growths, and buckets of slime. And I had a fantastic time making my way through this…

Best Valheim mods for 1.0: updated September 2026

What are the best Valheim mods? Valheim doesn’t officially support modding, but that hasn’t stopped the community from building tools to alter the game. We would love for Valheim to support Steam Workshop to make modding considerably easier; unfortunately, you will have to jump through some hoops to improve your Viking experience. Before proceeding with these…

A Bunch Of Steam Achievements May Have Leaked For – Sep 9, 2026

Steam achievements for a wide swath of upcoming and even announced games have seemingly leaked from Valve’s backend. As a result, there might be massive spoilers floating around on the internet now for games like Persona 6, Persona 4 Revival, Kingdom Hearts IV, Mega Man: Dual Override, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, Dragon Ball…

‘Yo-kai Watch 2: Haunted Domain’ Is Real, And It’s Coming To Switch 2

Level-5 is really bringing out the throwbacks these days, huh? After years of waiting, the studio today unveiled a first look at Yo-kai Watch 2: Haunted Domain, confirming that it’ll be coming to Switch 2. We still know very little about this one at the time of writing, but the brief teaser trailer showed us…

Iconic Nintendo Franchise Makes PlayStation 5 Debut This Year, Watch Trailer

A beloved Nintendo puzzle-adventure franchise is making its PlayStation 5 debut. The news comes with a brand new trailer confirming the release. Coming from developer Level-5, the upcoming game will finally end PlayStation fans’ nearly two-decade wait. Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, the eighth main entry in the iconic Nintendo series, has…

The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 Sets a High Bar for Gaming Laptops

If you’re shopping around to get ready for the new school year and looking for a gaming laptop to cover a broad range of performance needs, you’ll find plenty of hardware claiming it’s for “gaming,” but just what kind of gaming experience you’ll get is still a huge question. Plenty of brands are happy to…

Yikes, Some Switch 2 Ports In That New Direct Looked Rough

The September Nintendo Direct was a bit of a snoozefest compared to some of the past ones. It didn’t help that a lot of the trailers shown in the event were for ports of games that already came out on other platforms, and not all of them looked super impressive. While a lot of these…

New mod brings Nvidia’s Multi Frame Generation to RTX 30 graphics cards

The news of modders bringing unofficial DLSS 5 neural rendering technology to older GPUs, stretching back to the RTX 30 series, may have stolen the spotlight over the last couple of weeks, but one older DLSS feature has remained unsupported on some ageing Nvidia cards – until now. A new download on GitHub called DLSSG…