Gaming in city Warsaw. Reviews, Walkthroughs, News

Warsaw-based developer Mighty Koi has announced science-fiction / fantasy Soulslike RPG The Night Wanderer for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. A release date was not announced.

2024 is shaping up to be top-heavy for video game release, with major titles like Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League already out of the gates. March promises to be a busy month for video games, too. WWE 2K24 released on March 8, bringing its familiar and fun wrestling playground in an updated package. Team Ninja's latest action-RPG, Rise of the Ronin, comes out later this month. The developer is known for its gruelling but rewarding Souls-like Nioh series and is expanding the scope this time around with an open-world, narrative-driven role-playing title.

Virtuos has acquired the Los Angeles-based VFX studio Beyond-FX for an undisclosed sum.

Warsaw-based developer Mighty Koi has announced action adventure game Thorgal for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. A release date was not announced.

Polish developers Mighty Koi have announced The Night Wanderer, a new sci-fantasy Soulslike RPG with metroidvania level design – yes, yes, tick those genre boxes! - in which you are a grim bearded swordsman exploring an alien world that looks a bit like pre-industrial Scandinavia.

The Thaumaturge exists in an alternate 1905 Warsaw, where I can’t go anywhere without a couple of soldiers trying to mug me for my nice warm boots, and making matters worse, I’m playing an exhausted-looking guy who keeps talking to himself. This RPG world doesn’t have the same immediate appeal as a fantasy realm like Baldur’s Gate 3’s Faerun, but once I start digging, I find a treasure trove of great writing and compelling choices.

The Thaumaturge, a brand new spooky CRPG with Pokemon-like collectible creatures that I will never fail to misspell on my first try, is getting rave reviews on Steam after a successful Steam Next Fest demo.

There are precious few games set in turn-of-the-century Warsaw, and it’s one of several aspects with which distinguishes itself from the pack. This historical dark fantasy RPG is the sophomore release from Polish studio Fool’s Theory, whose 2017 cyberpunk action-RPG echoes the almost irresponsibly bold design decisions and ambitious intentions of their newest project. is a meaty, detailed exploration of Polish history and Western political progress, crafted around a worthy concept that is ultimately more interesting than just “Slavic .”

sparked a lot of reinvigorated interest in the classic isometric RPG style, and a new game called could be the perfect follow-up for anyone itching for me. Generally speaking, the isometric perspective in RPGs goes hand-in-hand with the classic approach of 90s PC entries in the genre, with a focus on deep player choice and branching story possibilities. When paired with modern updates to combat and quality-of-life, it can be an especially potent cocktail.

New week, new videogames, new newsblog. It's another relatively quiet week for big name PC releases - no mega-sequels or adaptations, unless you're seriously into the Moomins - but if 2024 has taught me anything it's that a breakout hit can come from anywhere, and I will accordingly be watching this week's new games with deep suspicion and barely constrained panic.

Some of the most exciting video games of 2024 are coming in March, running the gamut from ports like's PC debut to new flagship titles like . 2024 has been a busy year so far, with a mix of long-anticipated release dates, unexpected breakout hits, and even a surprise drop or two. March shouldn't have any trouble keeping up the momentum, bringing a conclusive end to the winter season of games and heralding in spring with some fresh titles.

March 2024 is bringing a fresh new slate of games to the table, with titles from to releasing across the full range of modern platforms. Not every 2024 game has been a hit so far, but between the launch of games like and has complemented a boom in popular survival crafting experiences to prove plenty of market strength. March 2024 could keep that momentum up, and some of the most anticipated titles feel like sure bets for fun.

Larian Studios is planning to open a new company branch in Poland, according to a recent report. The purported expansion could be a result of the incredible success of Baldur's Gate 3, which propelled Larian Studios to new heights following its August 2023 release.

Charmingly dark historical role-playing game (RPG) The Thaumaturge will get a later release than originally planned. 

Publisher 11 bit studios and developer Fool’s Theory have announced that upcoming narrative-based RPG The Thaumaturge is being delayed to March 4. For context, the game was originally set for release on February 20.

Publisher 11 bit studios and developer Fool’s Theory have delayed narrative RPG The Thaumaturge from its previously planned February 20 release date to March 4. It will be available for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG, followed by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series at a later date.

The Thaumaturge is an upcoming isometric RPG that's caught our eye with its intriguing alt-history setting, concerned with demonic beings called salutors, and coming to PS5 sometime in 2024. It takes place in Warsaw in 1905, and as a Thaumaturge, the player can commune with these dark entities in battle and out against the fearsome Russian Okhrana (the Tzar's secret police), who controls the streets with an iron fist.

The Thaumaturge, the detective CRPG blending together eastern-European fantasy, alt-history Warsaw and even a bit of Pokémon (or Persona, if you prefer), has been pushed back from its planned release date next week to the start of March. With development said to be finished, creators Fool’s Theory say that it’s simply to let the game breathe a bit easier.

The Thaumaturge will now launch slightly later than planned, on 4th March, despite work on the game being complete.

CD Projekt Red veteran Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz has been appointed as creative director at Polish studio Rebel Wolves.

Bloober Team's CEO, Piotr Babieno, has confirmed that news on the long-awaited Silent Hill 2 remake is expected to start being shared by Konami "very soon".

Some people think that story-driven games are dying. If that’s the case, then no one told the developers of these upcoming titles!

The Thaumaturge has been delayed from its original December 5 release date to February 20, 2024, announced publisher 11 Bit Studios and developer Fool’s Theory. The delay is to give the game “some additional time in development,” according to a press release sent to Destructoid.

Mystical dark-fantasy RPG The Thaumaturge has been delayed into next year, as its developers say they’ll need until February to polish up the story-driven game to the standards they’re aiming for.

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With Cyberpunk 2077's only expansion, Phantom Liberty, now firmly in the rearview, CD Projekt RED is free to look to the future. There's the new The Witcher trilogy, of course, but also the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel codenamed Project Orion.

There really is a simulation game for everything that video game fans could want. Whether it's the attempts at authenticity seen in the games or the more strange and unrealistic approach taken by the likes of, there's a little bit for everyone if they search for «simulator» on the game platform of their choice. is the next game on the list, courtesy of MS Games and MK Studios.

When Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt laid off 100 workers in the summer, some staff said enough was enough. Sick of the stress and anxiety caused by the spectre of job cuts, the workers set out to form a union. It was a big idea with small beginnings that has the potential to grow beyond the confines of CD Projekt’s Warsaw headquarters to become Poland’s game developer union, offering a home to all with a valid contract in the country.

The Thaumaturge is an isometric narrative RPG set in Warsaw in 1905, and it has been announced for a PS5 release in Early 2024. It features turn-based combat and an intriguing supernatural setting, and we got a decent look at it in an official gameplay trailer.

Steam Next Fest, or as I like to describe it, “E3 for PC Users” is currently running through the 16th of October. Next Fest lets players check out a massive lineup of unreleased games on Steam, playing through demos and more… To make things a little easier, we went through the initial listings and pulled some games that are definitely worth checking out the demos for.

Steam Next Fest is well underway, but one of the digital event’s must-play demos is an unexpectedly great horror CRPG.

A year after unveiling the co-development studio Calypte, Virtuos Studios has shut it down.

The Thaumaturge wouldn’t have caught my eye if I hadn’t familiarized myself with isometric games such as Baldur’s Gate 3, but I am so grateful that it did. Developer Fool’s Theory is heading the story-driven RPG. If you’re a long-time fan of isometric games, you may remember the studio’s name from Seven, another unique twist on the underrated genre. Fool’s Theory is also made up of devs who worked on the likes of The Witcher 3, and The Thaumaturge’s publisher, 11 Bit Studios, also worked on other banger games like Frostpunk.

The military genre in video games is massive, and whether it’s on console or PC, they tend to play pretty well. Want to know some of the best on PC? We’ll show you the best available right now.

Warsaw-based studio False Prophet has announced BEAST, a tactical RPG set in a grimdark medieval world. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2024.

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Co-development giant Virtuos has opened a brand new studio in Prague, Czechia.

Global development company Virtuos has opened a new studio in Prague to expand its engineering capabilities.

Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, is going on tour. The first leg of this showcase kicked off yesterday, letting fans in Warsaw try out the new story ahead of its launch. And as early murmurings suggested, it's far more expansive than what you'd usually expect for a story DLC.

The Witcher producer Tomasz Bagiński has reacted to the ongoing backlash that the Netflix series has faced for changing details from its source material. As many will be aware, the show is based on Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of books. While it broadly follows these, some elements have been changed, which has been a source of ire from some fans.

One of the most common criticisms of The Witcher on Netflix is that it strays too far from Andrzej Sapkowski's novels. It may have been a source of some tension behind the scenes, too: Former series star Henry Cavill made a point of saying he «pushed really, really hard» to stay true to the books, while also claiming that some of the writers on the show «actively disliked» them. There's no question that some aspects of the novel have been simplified for the TV show, and in an interview with Polish site Wyborcza (translated by Witcher fan site Redanian Intelligence), executive producer Tomek Baginski explained why some of those changes were made: "[A] higher level of nuance and complexity will have a smaller range."

Tomek Baginski, executive producer on Netflix's The Witcher, has blamed American audiences and social media sites such as TikTok for the series' simplified take on the books' plots.