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10 Obscure Facts About Gaming on the Commodore Amiga
At Gamescom this year, Retro Games, Ltd., made an impressive showing with their THEA1200 release. It’s a retro computer that emulates the classic Commodore Amiga 1200 from the 90s, complete with a full-sized keyboard and support not only for running the built-in games, but also for adding your own games and running the system with…
Pokémon Unite Announces Four More Playable Pokémon
All the Eeveelutions are here. During the Pokémon Unite finals at the 2026 Pokémon World Championships, four new playable Pokémon were revealed. Morpeko is arriving next week on 4th September 2026, Toxtricity will arrive later in the month on 24th September 2026, and then in October 2026, trainers can look forward to Jolteon and Flareon,…
‘Sidequests are almost my reason for doing videogames in the first place:’ The dev behind one of the coolest upcoming RPGs says its word count is ballooning because they just love side stories so much
The early access RPG Entropy would be cool enough in a vacuum: Experimental, JRPG-style combat in a bizarre, fallen world. But it’s also a second outing from the devs of one of my favorite RPGs in recent memory, Dread Delusion. Dread Delusion was a first-person homage to the Elder Scrolls that, true to its inspirations,…
How Solitaire Became the Blueprint for Casual PC Gaming
Long before daily rewards and mobile notifications defined casual gaming, a deck of digital cards showed millions of people that a computer could be a place to relax. Solitaire asked for no manual and no gaming identity. The table explained itself. A modern browser version such as PlaySolitaire preserves that same invitation: open the game,…
A Star Wars Galaxies community server was allegedly hacked with AI assistance by a Reddit moderator harboring a primeval grudge
Star Wars Galaxies Legends, one of many community servers offering a version of the defunct MMO with custom additions, reportedly had its assets decrypted by a hacker with the username levarrishawk (via Massively OP). In a post on the Star Wars Galaxies subreddit, Levarris confirmed the details of a Discord post shared by the server’s…
Star Wars Zero Company’s permadeath makes it a better RPG than most RPGs, even though it’s not really an RPG
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. This week, Associate Editor Ted Litchfield has subbed in to trade iron short swords and goblins for blaster rifles and clone troopers When I first tried Star…
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wins best PC game at Gamescom
When Total War: Warhammer first debuted, I was much more into the wargame setting’s sci-fi counterpart. This would be cool if Space Marines were in it, I remember thinking, somehow unaware that Total War: Warhammer would end up being one of the best strategy games on PC. Not that my theory was wrong: Space Marines…
Thanks to a dedicated team ‘art-directing’ every single NPC, GTA 6 has over 10 times as many unique animations as GTA 5
There are big-budget blockbusters, and then there’s GTA 6. If you want any sense of just how big this thing is, look no further than a recent interview Rockstar North co-head Aaron Garbut gave The New York Times (via Techradar). In it, he said the studio dedicated an entire new team solely to making NPCs….
Elden Ring’s Tarnished Edition is exciting enough on its own, but it’s also our last chance to properly experience the game’s launch day hype
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…
14 years on, the creator of DayZ is still searching for a solution to survival gaming’s biggest problem: ‘I think I am going to die without having solved it’
You might think making one of the most influential games of this century would be a source of unending happiness for its creator. But for Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall, founder of RocketWerkz, the relationship with his most famous creation isn’t that simple. “When DayZ happened, it was like dying,” says Hall of the mod which, alongside…
