Yesterday, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tyson Fury by unanimous decision to defend his unified heavyweight title. “Sportswriters” and “actual boxing fans” might attribute the victory to skill, discipline, gumption, or even good old fashioned stick-tuitiveness, but we gamers know better: Usyk won because he dressed up as the Hitman series’ Agent 47 as a…
Something I’ve come to realise is that I can pinpoint a year by its one giant videogame (or two slightly smaller but still very large videogames), whether I played them or not. Last year’s was, without a doubt, Baldur’s Gate 3. Elden Ring took over everyone’s lives the year before that, while Resident Evil Village…
Ever since the advent of digital distribution (which despite what some may think, does pre-date Steam), gamers have worried about ownership of their games. Time was that this sense of unease was mixed-up with an understandable nostalgia for physical media, that comforting sense of having the disc and always owning the game, but as the…
OK, so just up there, the really weird Balatro Friends of Jimbo (Pack 3) reveal trailer? Yeah, there’s a weirder version of that. Well, there’s outtakes from that, the video where Balatro publisher Playstack apparently paid relatively famous voice actor Ben Starr to be a silly clown. Which is to say that the voice actor…
It has now been 0 days since somebody leaked military intelligence via the War Thunder forums, that hub of military-minded people posting about their most favorite free-to-play military hardware simulator. It’s yet another leak for a game now synonymous with leaks of classified and restricted material from the modern military community. The leak has come…
Amazon’s series of videogame shorts, Secret Level, will get a second series. The adult animation anthology of short stories set in videogame worlds debuted this month to pretty strong results, at least in viewer counts, which is apparently enough to earn Love, Death & Robots creator Tim Miller another round with the Amazon MGM Studios…
First reported by GamesRadar, the new book by Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski has finally revealed the birth year of series protagonist Geralt of Rivia. With Geralt now established as having been born in 1211, we can use some back of the napkin math to figure out how old he is at various points in the…
A genuine blast. A few months ago, the Switch finally received Pizza Tower, an indie action platformer that’s gotten a lot of praise for how well it channels Nintendo’s long-dormant Wario Land series. Yet developer Tour de Pizza wasn’t the only team inspired by Wario. Summitsphere’s Antonblast is a wild and wonderful action platformer that…
Our favourite roguelike of the year was deeply strange and absurdly deep. It’s the impossibly inventive retrofuturist fantasy Caves of Qud. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Lincoln Carpenter, News Writer: There is too much to say about Caves of Qud, but it never quite feels like I’ve said…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. The best games ask the bravest…