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The Elder Scrolls Online—an MMO that's approaching its first decade—has always charmed me because of how it's able to represent, in a way, miniature versions of the setting's different continents and stylings. Especially since it can do that at a more rapid pace than the mainline series, which had its last proper entry 13 years ago.
At the start of a short Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus 2 preview I attended at Gamescom last week, I was a smidge concerned. I'm not a wargamer, I've never painted a miniature, and I only break out my tape measure when I need to put a shelf up.
Quite a few PC Gamer folk have been excited for Demonschool since it was announced at the PC Gaming Show in 2022. Rich Stanton said it was «one to keep a disembodied eye on,» Robin Valentine said it has the potential to deliver «the most interesting turn-based combats of 2024,» and Harvey Randall predicted that it could be «another Into the Breach.» That's a lot of enthusiasm! And so it genuinely pains me to have to be the one to tell them (and you) the game has been delayed into early 2025.
I got to sit down and play Phantom Blade Zero at Gamescom last week and—after muddling a bit to find my booth in the chaos of a bustling floor—came away quite impressed. Judging by the reactions of my fellow demo-triers, one of whom managed to beat it a whole 7 minutes before me (I'm not upset), it's looking to be a sleeper hit.
I wrote a little about Tavern Keeper when Greenheart Games, a developer that's spent 10 years making it, showed it off to me over a video call earlier this year. After sitting down, playing a little, and getting to chat with studio manager and director Patrick Klug at Gamescom, I've gone from curious to downright smitten with the thing.
I've plenty of opinions on the story of Dawntrail in Final Fantasy 14—it's a narrative that I enjoyed, but found more problems with the longer I sat with it. My biggest bugbear by far, however, was how it didn't quite prioritise its characters properly, leaving me feel some were underutilised at their best, and downright cardboard cutouts of their former selves at their worst.
World of Warcraft: The War Within has launched—although, if you had enough dough to shell out for the early access, you've already been playing it for a few days. And while it's early on in the expansion's lifecycle (I'm about two-thirds of the way through the second zone myself, as a complete-all-side quests fiend) things seem to be going pretty well.
World of Warcraft: The War Within, bar some iffy early access nonsense, appears to be landing pretty well—it's early days, mind, but Blizzard seems to have meant it when it comes to bolstering its evergreen systems, changing how it tells its story, and making Xal'atath into the scenery-chewing dramaturge perfect to kick off the Worldsoul Saga's chaos.