The original Fresh Prince returns. Way back in 1989, Jordan Mechner’s original Prince of Persia represented one of the first and best examples of what’s become known as the ‘cinematic platformer’. It’s a traditionally challenging genre, one that combines strong art, fun storylines, and fluidly animated protagonists to bring us adventures that test reflexes and…
RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Direct download Hey there PC gamers, welcome to 2024! It’s a new year and that means 12 entire months of new games for us to sink our teeth into. I hope your holiday season was full of good food and good gaming—I know mine sure was. Before…
We’ve been fans of Ducky keyboards for a while here at PC Gamer, and beyond the fantastic build quality and the delightful naming schemes, one thing the company is normally pretty good at is nailing the visuals. From the super-pink and super-wonderful Ducky One 3 Fuji through to the subtle RGB of the Ducky Shine…
Old School Runescape players are on another level, man. The game’s flooded with zero-sum games where the house always wins: yet compared to the person who gathered 1 million of the same crappy fish, this is small pennies. Despite this, I’m still somehow surprised whenever somebody goes so far out of the way just to…
As part of another adventure in numbers incomprehensible to the human mind, Microsoft has gained the upper hand in its rivalry with Apple, attaining a market value of $2.87 trillion and becoming the most valuable company on the planet. As reported by the Financial Times, Microsoft nosed ahead of Apple earlier today, on the back…
Well it’s not every day that a PC Gamer writer stumbles across an indie horror collection themed around an alt-history and deeply cursed version of PC Gamer, but here we are (thanks Dominic Tarason for the spot). PC Cursed is an impressively elaborate and free grab-bag of 22 indie horror games which comes complete with…
“We were doing so many things that had never been done before”. Sometimes, a change of pace can be a good thing – and that was certainly the case for Martyn Chudley, founder of Raising Hell Software. Responsible for Combat Crazy, The Killing Game Show / Fatal Rewind and Wiz ‘n’ Liz, the small studio…
Combining the final two weeks of the year. The final Japanese charts for 2023 are now in from Famitsu (via Gematsu) and show that in the final two weeks of the year, Super Mario Bros. Wonder managed to hold onto the top spot. The plumber’s latest adventure managed to shift another 221,738 units between 18th-31st…
Now is your time to discover your next favorite sports game with Free Play Days! Madden NFL 24, NHL 24, F1 23, EA Sports PGA Tour, EA Sports WRC and Super Mega Baseball 4 are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Core and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday January 11…
In the era of D&D 3rd edition and its 3.5 update, character building was a wild west. The game’s complex rules and deep customisation made it ripe for min-maxing—and an unbelievable barrage of first- and third-party expansion content meant there were always new races, classes, spells, and feats to mess around with, usually all hopelessly…