Andrei Pechalin

Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition on Steam Rediscover the dark fantasy classic that defined the modern ARPG genre; fully remastered with a new class, fresh content, quality‑of‑life upgrades, and an overhauled endgame. Chain brutal skill and it...

I somehow managed to miss that Diablo II released on Steam yesterday and received its first DLC in [checks age] 25 years

store.steampowered.com/app/2536520/...

The removal of base taxation and an "aid package" for returning players make it tempting to go back (assuming my base hasn't been swiped off the servers after all these months)

I'm looking to speak to voice actors/voice directors for a feature I'm working on. If you're an actor/director interested in chatting about your work, or a PR with an opportunity to talk to some actors, get in touch at rick@ricklane.co.uk. Reposts appreciated.

The Bishop Berkeley "mod" for Quake 2 is out

The Banished Vault OST is brilliant. Frequently listen to it at work

Matrix Games

Good news: there is a hardcore war game about the Spanish Civil War now. Bad news (but also more good news): the manual is half the length of Hugh Thomas' mammoth history of the Spanish Civil War. I have rarely been more excited and scared simultaneously

www.matrixgames.com/game/war-in-...

List of patch notes for Pathologic 3

I think Pathologic 3 has some of my favourite patch notes, e.g. "The dramatic mirror burial mound in the Cathedral no longer pokes the killer in the butt with its shard."

In ON3 we want to showcase and mentor 6 new voices in 1000 word features. We champion long form videogame journalism, the future of print and give freelancers a fair deal. Email info@on.games by the 8/2/26 with an example of your writing and your experience to apply. on.games

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Do you care about how chicken plumage factors into game design? This, and many other insights from Warhorse, are covered in my making of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II in Edge 420.

Huge thanks to @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, Warhorse and their team for giving their time and bearing with me.

This is an accurate (minus death) simulation of 50% of my work conversations...

Apparently, Thief VR is "relevant" to me because I've played a lot of Dishonored. Fair enough. But I've also played all the Thief games... Steam algorithms are weird

🙏 thank you! You guys made the amazing games! I just wrote about them

Haha, thanks, John! Basically my entire raison d'etre: to supply ammunition to be obnoxiously pretentious. Hope you're well

Thank you, sir!

I wrote a thing about Pathologic 3, which I think is largely a brilliant game. To be clear, "critique" is here meant in the sense of a sustained, detailed examination, not necessarily in the sense of a criticism (although the ambiguity is probably apt, giving we're dealing with Pathologic)

I'm enjoying Fallout Season 2, but largely by reconciling myself to the fact that it's not really anything like the Fallout I remember. The Legion is a case in point: they're absurd and funny in New Vegas, but they are also sinister, menacing, and very dangerous. In the show they are just the former

Thanks, John! I see, I see. This is useful to know. So I can't passive aggressively tut and say that back in my day we had real authentic K-Pop. Never mind, there will be something else

Could someone who actually knows stuff about K-Pop please explain how many of the songs in K-Pop Demon Hunters are actually K-Pop? I don't know anything, but a lot of them just sound like....I dunno, pop without the "K", I guess

My 4yo binned her sandwich then lied and told us she had eaten it. But at least she put it in the composting bin, so we're doing something right, I guess

I have a preview and a review in this one. As ever, I provide zero prizes if you guess which ones are mine.

I've had 1 full week off this year. Bits of long weekends here and there, occasional day off to make time for a review, but that week was the only consistent time off. So I can't overstate how much I'm looking forward to 10 days off with the kids, and possibly a videogame, over the holidays

Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre Read the latest State of the Nations research report from University of Sheffield on mapping arts, culture and heritage careers.

Nothing unexpected here, I guess, but this is grim reading nonetheless.

There was a guy at the gym who looked like if Gene Wolfe and Dr Robotnik had a baby, the baby grew up, and got really stacked

Welcome Ice-Pick Lodge to the Hooded Horse family!

They're making Darkwood 2: a sequel to the unforgiving survival horror game originally created by Acid Wizard.

We'll be publishing Darkwood 2 in consultation with the Acid Wizard team.

Read more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/370...

Clearly the password they should have used is 0451

Haha yeah. We briefly considered staying one night in a fancy hotel etc but the kids are a little too young. In the end, turns out we would have lost the booking anyway. Never been vindicated by vomit before (except that one time I previewed Death Trash for you)

My wife and I have been together for 20 years. We spent the anniversary looking after vomitting children, frantically washing sick-covered bedding, and vomitting ourselves

Nothing like trying to do a review for a large-ish game while your daughter and then your wife are sick with a vomitting bug...on the other hand, who needs more than 4 hours' sleep anyway?

There is some especially potent lurgy wandering around this autumn. I've had two pretty nasty throat infections in the last 4 weeks (or possibly one that just never went away) and lost a kilogram. Hopefully that's the end of it

Deus Ex and Half-Life 2 still sufficiently high. Objectivity confirmed