Gallery: Unboxing Shinyuden’s Vixen 357 – The Japanese SRPG Finally Comes To The West
Mech’in a right fuss. Back in 2019, we reported that Super Fighter Team planned to localise the excellent tactical RPG Vixen 357 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, ending decades of Japanese exclusivity for the title. Developed by Career Soft – the same team behind Langrisser, Elthlead, Gaia no Monshou and Gaiflame – Vixen 357 originally…
The Witcher 3’s remaster just brought it to a new all-time concurrent player count peak
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a decade since The Witcher 3 first released, and even harder to believe they found a way to make Geralt’s tub transformation even shinier. The seminal open world RPG’s hotly anticipated remaster has finally arrived, and it’s pulling people back into the Continent all these years later (now…
Forget what PC Gamer said: The Witcher 3 will always be my 2015 GOTY
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it’s all thanks to Valve’s embrace of New Yorkyness
The Cursed Apple, wherein Valve’s latest MOBA Deadlock takes place, is ‘an urban fantasy setting’ in the same way that Limp Bizkit is ‘an American rock band.’ Sure, the label is accurate, but Deadlock is unmistakably, crucially, and specifically New York the same way Fred Durst is sort of like the living avatar of Jacksonville,…
11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos
After putting together a list of some of the big, well-known games currently on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale, I asked the PC Gamer team for some deeper cuts—games they’re real sickos for, but that haven’t gotten enough love. Here’s what they brought to the table. The ones where you have to read (Image…
Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. WoW:…
Feature: The Results Of Our 2026 Switch 2 Summer Survey Are In
Fingers crossed for a Kid Icarus revival. Back in August, we posed 64 gaming-related questions to Nintendo Life readers in our Switch 2 Summer Survey. Topics included gaming habits, thoughts on Switch 2 and its software lineup, how you buy games in 2026, and other questions covering how you get your daily dose of Nintendo…
Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur’s Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Rick and Ted have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in…
Game Changer: Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge – Where My Love For Konami’s Legendary Series Began
You’ve got to start somewhere. A couple of years ago, I penned a feature for this very site which explored the idea that playing video games – like any other formative memory – can be linked to physical locations. For example, you might fondly remember a certain town because it’s where you bought a favourite…
Deadlock’s new hero Rat King has over 100 voice lines dedicated to throwing rats at you
Gaming’s worst-kept secret Deadlock received a humongous update earlier this week, one that redecorated its entire town and added six new classes for players to sink their teeth into. On the subject of teeth, one of these classes is a tank called Rat King, a giant humanoid rodent who started out as a fan concept…
