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Star Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game

Good art generally requires risk-taking and good business is generally risk-averse—sucks for you if you’re trying to make a big budget videogame based on one of the most popular movie series ever made in a relatively niche game genre, but them’s the breaks. Unless you’re Bit Reactor, of course, then you’re doing just that. Founder…

Retro Tower Defense codes April 2026

At PCGamesN, we like Retro Tower Defense codes because while we are expert gamers, we can’t deny that we like a little assistance every so often. As we focus on the uphill battle of defending our tower, it can be a little less stressful knowing we have free gifts on our side. Codes can net…

In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG

Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where I celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I love Neverwinter Nights. I would count myself among the top 100, maybe even top 50 fans in the world of this joint…

Realistic FPS Gray Zone Warfare bounces back as a transformative, community-led update boosts players by 1000%

The Gray Zone Warfare Spearhead update has seen a colossal surge in interest around the realistic, tactical FPS game, and I’m glad to see it. I’ve always been impressed by developer Madfinger Games’ commitment to filling a very specific niche, placing much more direct focus on high-stakes PvE in a world increasingly filled with extraction…

Your time matters, we don’t want you spending it clicking through menus

Crafting is an essential part of Arc Raiders. Gathering together the resources to make new weapons, more gear, and extra consumables is a rewarding part of the loop, but it can be unwieldy working back and forth through the menus to dismantle old, unwanted loot, then head to the resource trader for any missing pieces….

Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: ‘Dwarf Fortress just doesn’t accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Tarn Adams cannot recall exactly when he first got into…

Slay the Spire 2 is cooking a “competitive” mode, but I’m most excited about its new short-time format

I’m in love with Slay the Spire 2, and millions of players are in the same boat. Like its predecessor, I suspect it’ll be a game I could theoretically pour thousands of hours into and still have fun, especially as more characters and modes are introduced throughout Early Access. But individual runs can be long,…

A new Crimson Desert patch adds the only RPG feature that matters: A hide helmet button

Crimson Desert has gotten frequent and hefty updates since its blockbuster release, and today has brought yet another payload of changes. You can read all about it on developer Pearl Abyss’s website, but let me skip to the good stuff: you can hide your helmet now. The highly requested feature is delightfully granular, too. In…

Ahead of its full remaster, the most relaxing building game ever is yours for free on Steam, but be quick

As it approaches its eighth birthday, and with over ten million players to its name, House Flipper is yours for free on Steam ahead of its full-scale remaster. One of the best building games, and certainly among the most relaxing of them, the home makeover sim is being given away in preparation for the upcoming…

Fortnite’s AI-generated brainrot characters are here, and I hate it

I do not like the new Fortnite Brainrot Bundle. I consider myself relatively open-minded when it comes to modern memes and ‘brainrot’ content, particularly by the standards of my generation. There’s a craft to the Source animations of Skibidi Toilet, and its humor is rooted in the same absurdism that underpinned many of my favorite…