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Amazon’s God of War TV show will recast Kratos due to on-set injury
Remember that photo which stirred all sorts of talk about Amazon’s upcoming God of War TV series? Well, the show won’t look like that anymore—the role of Kratos is set to be recast since actor Ryan Hurst tore a bicep on set, according to Deadline. Anonymous sources in that story claim Hurst has had surgery…
Raids just landed in solo ‘simulated MMO’ Erenshor
If hell is other people, heaven might just be Erenshor—assuming you like old-school MMOs in the style of EverQuest, anyway. It’s very much that style of game, but in a simulated solo world where other ‘players’ are just computer-controlled NPCs called simplayers. You can even party up and form a guild with them, which will…
I used videogames to solve my country’s politics: Turns out the answer is ultra-mega-communism
The country I lead is in uproar. My approval ratings have to be measured on entirely new axes to capture popular upset. The streets throng with rebels and malcontents. The only reason I have not been assassinated is that the sheer number of people who want to murder me cannot fit through the door at…
I’m not worried about Fallout: New Vegas 2, because Obsidian knows how to make the best out of a bad situation
Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. I have occasionally been accused of cynicism. And by occasionally, I mean every damn…
Review: Gecko Gods (Switch 2) – A Stripped-Back Zelda-Lite, Uneven But Made With Love
A cold-blooded puzzling adventure. It took me the best part of four hours to click with Gecko Gods. Some may argue that my initial hesitations — about playing through a Zelda-lite 3D adventure as a gecko plucked straight from the wild, with little motivation beyond consuming bugs — put me in the wrong frame of…
Question time: How long have you been playing MMOs?
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. One…
The toughest choices in PC games
PC games have been foisting tricky decisions on players since back in 1985 when Ultima 4 made us navigate a moral compass with eight different spokes to prove we were Britannia’s best boy. But the Big Decision Era really kicked off in 2003 when Knights of the Old Republic made us pick between the light…
For years, survival games have convinced us that chopping down 400 trees is somehow part of the fantasy—Palworld proves them wrong
Survival games are obsessed with the grind. Need a better axe? You’ve got to spend an hour collecting stone. Want to build a bigger base? Time to manually ferry hundreds of logs from one storage chest to another. Somewhere along the line, the genre started confusing friction with depth. But there are only so many…
Valve reassures Team Fortress 2 players that it’s still working on the Mann vs Machine update it announced last year: ‘We promise we’re making progress’
I had completely forgotten that Valve is working on an update for Team Fortress 2‘s cooperative Mann vs. Machine mode, though my defence, it’s been a long time since we last heard about it. The prospective patch was announced in June last year, via a blog post on TF2’s official website that requested map and…
Glass mouse pads haven’t won me over but gamer sleeves are a different story
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying out a new mouse (a Superlight clone) and finally sacking off CS2’s cheater-ridden Premier matchmaking for FaceIt. I’m known around the PC Gamer streets as a bit of a mouse pad nerd. Though that’s just because I take the surface my little rodent…
