Judge Dredd Pinball FX VR First Look
It’s launch day, and I’m taking my first real look at Judge Dredd in Pinball…
Top Xbox exec promoted in brand ‘reset’ leaves after 3 months in role
As reported by The Verge, Xbox Chief Operating Officer Helen Chiang is leaving the company after three months in the role—though Chiang had previously been a Microsoft employee for 21 years. Xbox had not previously operated with a COO in its hierarchy, and the role was created as part of CEO Asha Sharma’s controversial brand…
Penguin Colony review: A daringly weird horror game whose atmosphere and surprises overcome its rough edges
Need to know What is it? Lovecraftian horror through the eyes of a penguin.Release date October 16, 2026Expect to pay $15 / £13Developer Origame DigitalPublisher Fellow TravellerReviewed on RX 9070 XT, Core i5 12600K, 32 GB RAM, Steam DeckMultiplayer NoSteam Deck VerifiedLink Steam Penguin Colony is a work of cosmic horror that I would recommend…
BioWare’s incredible legacy will continue as long as there are RPGs
Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) For my column this week I was going to write about climbing all over monsters in Dragon Dogma 2’s chilly Dark Arisen expansion, but then EA decided to finally murder BioWare after years of slowly poisoning it. So sadly I am pivoting to this eulogy. It’s hard to discuss BioWare’s…
Now it’s over, WoW: Forever’s beta has left me with just one fear—its endgame
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. World…
New Blood CEO confirms it: the worst way to sell immersive sims like Gloomwood and Fallen Aces is to call them immersive sims
Fans of Deus Ex, Dishonored and Gloomwood like to roll the words ‘immersive sim’ around their mouths as often as possible, savouring the fond associations with first-person drawer-rifling and guilt-ridden murder. Yet there’s something like consensus emerging among the makers of these games: it’s really hard to sell an immersive sim while calling it by…
‘There Was Nothing Worse than Thinking About the Virtual Boy’ – Nintendo Power’s Gail Tilden Wasn’t a Fan of the Red-Screened Flop
“It reminded me of being at the eye doctor”. Gail Tilden is a Nintendo legend. She joined the company in 1983, helped launch the NES in North America, and went on to become the editor-in-chief of Nintendo Power, the official in-house magazine. Later in her Nintendo career, she became VP of brand management and helped…
The mouse P.I. for hire from Mouse: P.I. For Hire joins the meat boy from Super Meat Boy 3D in gaming’s latest indie crossover
It seems like there’s a new slightly-humorous-for-its-incongruity collab between game devs every other week at this point, and the latest in this sacred lineage is a team-up between Super Meat Boy 3D and Mouse: P.I. For Hire. The latter game’s titular mouse detective has been squished into a cube-like shape and sent to navigate a…
Japan Actors Union pushes for heavy restrictions on AI copying dead actors
The Japan Actors Union, an org consisting of around 2,600 actors and voice actors, recently announced a series of measures to protect the rights of performers in the industry with regard to generative AI (reported in English via Automaton Media). It’s been a hot topic both in Japan and here in the west, with Leon…
Are we in the cozy gaming gold rush era? ‘Cozy’ has grown over 250% on Steam and 200% in my inbox since 2024
Cozy games on Google The past five years of search demand on Google for cozy games, relaxing games, and casual games.Google Trends Interestingly, the resurgence of “casual games” is even more pronounced at a worldwide view.Google Trends First let’s check back in on the same Google Search data I pulled in 2023 to compare how…
PSA: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Switch 2 Update Now Live
Get downloading. If you’re playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2 this weekend, you might need to update the game since your last session. Activision hasn’t shared any official notice about this at the time of writing, but a new patch for this version of the title has now gone live. Players…
