How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™
Causality Chain is a series at PC Gamer exploring the unlikely links between history, culture, and videogames. Humanity has witnessed countless tragedies—but occasionally, through the alchemy of passing time, moments of singular woe can serve as a foundation for future wonders. Depending, in this case, on how broad your definition of wonder is. Today, we…
Where to find the Shimanoyama region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
The new summer Horizon Mascot Party Festival Series has arrived in Forza Horizon 6, and that means a new weekly Shimanoyama Treasure Hunt, plus more challenges and rewards. There are also two seasonal cars you can progress towards, the Exomotive Exocet Sport and the Datsun 2000 Roadster, and completing this challenge will give you a…
Why Ball-Drop Games Will Never Go Out of Style
Some game mechanics are trends, and some are permanent. The ball-drop, where a disc, a ball, or a coin is released from the top of a pegged board and allowed to find its own path down through a maze of obstacles to a prize slot at the bottom, belongs firmly in the second category. It…
Hands-on report: Marvel’s Wolverine
It’s been a big week for fans of Marvel’s Wolverine, starting with the announcement of sharp-looking PS5 hardware and accessories. Now, with just over a month away until its September 15 launch, Insomniac is sharing a deep dive on the game’s story, combat, and exploration thanks to an extensive hands-on session with the game. …
Free Play Days – Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta, Sunderfolk and Asdivine Cross
Cross paths with adventure with a new Free Play Days this weekend! The Gears of War: E‑Day online multiplayer beta is open from August 13 at 12pm PT until August 17 at 10am PT, available on XBOX PC and console for players with Xbox Game Pass Essential or higher. Sunderfolk and Asdivine Cross are available this weekend for XBOX…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis
I love my Steam Deck. Although the internals are starting to look a bit long in the tooth these days, it still feels like the archetype of what a handheld gaming PC should be. It’s a bit large and in charge though, which is why my ears pricked up when I heard of the Steam…
Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony’s move to digital-only sales: ‘You won’t have any choice at all’
Sony’s decision to stop selling physical disks for its games makes a certain kind of sense from a mercilessly realist point of view—I’d be a hypocrite if I, a person with the majority of my games on one platform (Steam), shook my fist and wept for the end of physical media. But aside from the…
Nintendo Download: 13th August (North America)
Duskfade! Moonlighter! Future Knight! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Review: KONKR Pocket Advance – The Nintendo GBA, Perfected
AYANEO’s latest budget handheld is one of its best. AYANEO’s budget brand, KONKR, has already given us some welcome options in the handheld emulation space, but few of them have attracted the kind of fevered attention that the Pocket Advance has managed. This GBA-inspired portable sold out of its pre-order quota in astonishingly quick time,…
Why Retro Gaming Continues to Attract a New Generation of Players
Pixels the size of postage stamps still fill Discord chats, school clubs, and handheld screens in 2026. Retro gaming keeps pulling in players who never blew dust from a cartridge or waited for a CRT to warm up. The draw is plain. Old games start fast, ask little, and put skill on display after one…
