Mark Delaney

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The Best PC Games To Play In 2025

1 week ago | gamespot.com | Steve Watts |Steven Petite |Gabe Gurwin |Mark Delaney

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. These are our selections for the very best PC games. Without a generational divide, the PC gaming library just keeps growing, so we focused on the best PC games to play right now. Some of these games, like Blue Prince and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, are recently released gems.
The Last Of Us Season 2 Review - It Can't Be For Nothing

2 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

Magicians have a word for the final, most difficult part of an illusion. It's a term that went mainstream when Christopher Nolan used it as the title of his 2006 drama about dueling illusionists, The Prestige. Executing their final flourish, the prestige is the moment a performer truly wows their audience, leaving them wide-eyed and unsure how the magician pulled it off.
How Long Is South Of Midnight? - Full Chapters List Revealed

3 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

South of Midnight is Xbox's latest first-party game and the first release by Compulsion Games since the studio was acquired by Microsoft in 2018. The southern gothic action-adventure game has its roots in a style of gameplay that's reminiscent of the OG Xbox era, and pairs that with a modern story that hits pretty hard at times.
InZoi Guides Hub

3 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

InZoi is a life sim in the style of The Sims. However, it does a lot of things that are unique to games like it and will be new to anyone coming over from EA's genre leader. Even when InZoi does offer mechanics similar to those in The Sims, InZoi often does them differently. For fans of the genre, it's almost like learning a new language with some of the same cognates.
Hunt: Showdown Needs To Be Easier, But Not Easy, Dev Says

4 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

Hunt: Showdown takes the title of the game I enjoy the most despite being bad at it. Like most people probably do, at a certain point, I'll drop a game from my life if the losing streaks are piling up too much and it's not feeling fun anymore.
Neil Druckmann Doesn't Worry About TLOU Spoilers After They Previously "Blew Up In My Face"

4 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

When The Last of Us Part II debuted in 2020, it did so after a few major plot points were spoiled online well in advance. Now, with the show set to adapt that story when The Last of Us Season 2 premieres on HBO in a few weeks, there's a risk a whole new audience will have their experience altered by the prevalence of spoilers online. But for showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, the latter of whom is now living through this predicament for a second time, spoilers aren't a huge concern.
Backyard Baseball '97 Mobile Release Makes Pablo Portable Today

4 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

Backyard Baseball pressed all the nostalgia buttons when it was revived last fall for PC as Backyard Baseball '97, a pixel-for-pixel faithful remake of the original game--a challenging project given the revival team didn't have the game's original source code. As of today, March 27, it's available on platforms that didn't even exist when the game debuted: smartphones and tablets for both iOS and Android.
Atomfall Review - Bunker Thrill

1 month ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

Atomfall is not Fallout. The comparison has been a popular one, but the developers wanted to make it clear that this new IP from the creators of Sniper Elite is "its own thing for sure," and they're right. It is. But there are times when the similarities jump off the screen. Both focus on a post-apocalyptic world full of mutants, warring factions, and--most relatable of all--they both feature a sprawling locked bunker at the heart of their stories.
The Outlast Trials Update Includes A Ton Of Free (And Unsettling) Cosmetics

1 month ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

The Outlast Trials update 2.1 has arrived, bringing new limited-time events, missions, and a whole bunch of new cosmetics, including several skins in a game already chock full of some of the creepiest character costumes in all of video games. The free update is out now on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. Two new MK-Challenges, the game's shorter-form missions, debut as Stash the Contraband and Kidnap the Mistress.
If You're Afraid Of The Ocean, This New Horror Game Is A Nightmare

1 month ago | gamespot.com | Mark Delaney

Hold your breath, plug your nose, and dive into a new horror game revealed during the Future Game Show, as the first-person horror-adventure Dark Mass is coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. Similar to 2021's French horror film The Deep House, Dark Mass is set almost entirely underwater. Players take on the role of Alice, a deep-sea explorer who comes upon the wreckage of an ancient ship while diving with her brother Reed.