Diablo 2 players made nearly 2 million warlocks in a single month
Diablo continues to be a huge deal, and I’m not just talking about the latest entry, even if it is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game ever. Millions of people went straight back to Diablo 3, and as the series’ lead producer Matthew Cederquist told Polygon in a recent interview, Diablo’s 26-year-old sophomore release is still surprisingly active….
I’ll never love another RPG like I loved Neverwinter Nights
Dungeon Master 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. It’s 4 am and I am sitting in front of my PC, the monitor perched on a…
The best birding board game on PC is getting a sequel about dragons, which are like cooler birds
I love Wingspan, a birding-themed board game with a humdinger of a digital adaptation, but the hardest part about pitching it to board game skeptics is that they’re rarely tantalized by the theme. “Why would I play a game about identifying God’s most illustrious creations,” they whinge. “I want to play games about exciting things,…
Deadlock’s latest ‘small update’ yet again remixes basic mechanics and rebalances most of the roster
More than team fights, more than shrewd theorycrafting, and more than map awareness, MOBAs are ultimately games about scaling: get more money than the other guys, and once you’ve got a power spike to leverage, dunk on them as hard as you can. That means the hardest part of these games is catching up. Each…
PC Gamer’s MMO readers are, according to you, fashion-forward healers who like your keybinds, and I couldn’t be more proud
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. Terminally…
As the UK plunges once more into political chaos, I’ve found the roguelike deckbuilder that can help me process it
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
A Broken Sword movie is in the works, aiming to move the adventure game classics into ‘the next medium it deserves’
Adventure game royalty Broken Sword is the latest videogame to get a movie adaptation, with a film being co-developed by series creators Revolution Software and producer Story Kitchen, which has worked on numerous videogame adaptations for screen, including the (generally liked) Sonic the Hedgehog films and Amazon’s upcoming Life is Strange TV show. Reported by…
Mortal Kombat – by Patrick Hickey Jr.
Those two epic words helped launch the work of Ed Boon, John Tobias, and the rest of the team behind Mortal Kombat in pop culture lore forever. It’s also made it a video game series that essentially always comes back refreshed and inviting, after over 30 years of entries. So while your love affair with…
You can help save the whales by buying this reef-building game written by the scribe of the Tomb Raider reboot
If you’re a fan of city-builders, Life Below should already be on your radar. It’s a very different take on the art of metropolis construction that swaps out the tenements and skyscrapers of your standard SimCity-likes for constructing glittering coral reefs as you attempt to revive collapsing marine ecosystems. It looks utterly beautiful, is developed…
The Steam Controller’s main competition isn’t from Microsoft or Sony: It’s from third-party vendors
James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Playing Luna Abyss and Zero Parades for Dead Spies, instead of stepping out into all the rain we’re getting this British Summer. As strange as it is to say, I often feel like I’m forced to use the Xbox Controller whenever I turn on…
