Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities. Quake 2 has a fascinating legacy. Released only 18 months after Quake in December 1997, it…
Giving your console the ‘ultra’ treatment. Following the release of the phenomenally successful NES, Game Boy and SNES (we won’t mention the Virtual Boy), there were high hopes that Nintendo’s 64-bit console would become the platform of choice for the vast majority of players. The arrival of the PlayStation ensured that didn’t come to pass,…
In case you haven’t noticed, graphics cards are pretty expensive. If that puts you off PC gaming, then AMD has something for you: The Ryzen 8000-series APUs include the most powerful integrated graphics ever, and the Ryzen 7 8700G is the top chip of the lot. They’re positioned to challenge entry level graphics cards, meaning…
Development time would “double” that of FF7. Cast your minds back to June 2023, you might remember that internal staff at Square Enix were quite keen on the idea of a remake for Final Fantasy VI. According to a recent interview with French Youtuber Julien Chièze, however, it seems that such a project would hypothetically…
What is this, the Dark Ages? There is a king’s ransom of strategy games on Switch, so it takes a lot for one to stand out from the crowd. Unfortunately, Rising Lords from developer Argonwood is memorable for all the wrong reasons. With hollow, tedious gameplay and a combat system that tries to combine too…
Last week’s reissue of Rainbow Islands was the 400th game distributed. Hamster has revealed that it has now released 400 titles as part of its Arcade Archives label of reissues as of last week. Originally beginning in 2014 on the PS4 (before eventually branching out to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms in the following…
The recent deluge of layoffs at Blizzard (and Microsoft’s wider gaming division) has been utterly brutal—especially since several employees uprooted their lives to come and work at the company, with some employed there for just four months. While there’s no way to soften that sort of blow, one crafty ex-Blizzard employee did manage a small…
Doom has had one of the most remarkable afterlives of any game, from the still-thriving modding and speedrunning scenes to the meme-slash-mission of getting this thing running on any and all technology available to humanity. You’ve seen the pregnancy tests, the Lego brick, the potatoes, the engineers who got it going on a 1-milliwatt chip…
Further details are beginning to leak for AMD’s next generation of desktop processors built on the Zen 5 architecture. These new “Granite Ridge” CPUs are currently expected for release in the first half of this year, and we’re now starting to see information that looks to add some credence to the earlier rumours referencing the…
We’ve been expecting you. Bandai Namco has released a new trailer for SPYxANYA Operation Memories today, revealing that the game will be sneaking out West on 28th June 2024. Based on the popular SPYxFAMILY anime, this game was initially revealed in the September 2023 Direct showcase before receiving a Japanese release in December. Read the…