Bitmap Books’ latest arrives this October. Bitmap Books has just revealed its next project, and it’s likely to be of interest to horror gaming fans. Ants To Zombies: Six Decades Of Video Game Horror “delves into the remarkable and long history of games that terrify and delight in equal measure,” according to the publisher. Read…
The Starfield community’s ships are giving me some heavy Spore flashbacks. In case that’s a game you missed, 2008’s Spore was a funky little space-sim with several minigames stacked onto its back-end. While it fell short of Maxis’ lofty promises, I still have fond memories of its creature creator—which people used to make anything other…
Tech Tales This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 385 in June 2023, as part of our Tech Tales series. Every month we talk about the ups and downs of PC hardware, with a look back on our own history with the hobby. It’s 7pm on a hazy June evening in my atrocious…
Slither Wing and Iron Moth up for grabs. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are getting yet another 5-star Tera Raid event later this month, taking place from September 22nd to September 24th. There are two version-specific Pokémon up for grabs during the event: Scarlet players can grab Slither Wing, while Violet players will be hunting for…
And you can help! Over the last decade or so, there have been a lot of new localizations of games that were previously unavailable and unreleased in the West. So much so, that it can be a little hard to keep tabs on them all. That’s why a Twitter user named Baust528 (who is also…
“Pokémon had hit our UK business quite hard”. If there are two brands in the world you’d assume would never be in direct competition with one another, it’s Pokémon and Warhammer. The former is a franchise about collecting and battling with a host of cute monsters, while the other is a series of D&D-style fantasy…
“We have heard you”. Well, that didn’t take long. It seems the highly vocal reaction from game developers and the community at large has forced Unity’s hand after the company announced plans for its new ‘runtime fee’ policy. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
At the start of the year, Crystal Dynamics announced that Marvel’s Avengers would be delisted. Following a release that publisher Square Enix called “disappointing”, the live-service spandex-em-up was put on life support, with a final update in March and a subsequent patch in April. As of September 30 it won’t be available to buy on…
Kickstart a week of NYT Connections with a guaranteed win: all you have to do is sneak a cheeky peek at today’s answers and then bask in your speedy victory. If you prefer to keep things honest but can’t quite find the link between words, take a look at the hints for the September 18…
When game engine company Unity announced a change to its pricing plan last week, the response from developers was overwhelmingly negative. The change would mean developers would be charged an increasing fee as they crossed set thresholds every time their games were installed. It was called, among plenty of other things, “an astonishing scumbag move”….