“It’ll all play out in real time”. Paul W.S. Anderson is no stranger to adapting video games for the big screen, having already performed the trick with Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, but he’s taking a new approach with his upcoming effort, a silver screen adaptation of Sega’s light gun shooter House of…
Back in 1981, the original Wizardry, subtitled Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, was the first party-based CRPG. It was a hit both in the west and Japan, where it even had its own anime. The series it inspired has recently been revived, and the results are a bit of a mixed bag. There’s a…
Take a peek at our hint for today’s Wordle, and then combine it with our general tips to help get your daily puzzle gaming off to a flying start. Or put it to one side for later if you prefer, keeping it as a safety net for a mid-board mess of yellow letters. And if…
Hideo Kojima took to the stage at SXSW today and – joined by some special guests – discussed new details about Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Those details included the reveal of the game’s release date: June 26, 2025. To mark the announcement – and pre-orders going live March 17* – attendees…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
At the SXSW conference, Hideo Kojima hosted a 45-minute panel on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, as well as announcing its release date: June 26, 2025. That’s the PlayStation 5 release date, of course, and we’ll find out when it comes to PC when we find out, just like we did with the first…
Interviewing Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton for PC Gamer’s upcoming print issue 408 (396 in the US), I was curious how the game’s new, robust melee and parries would translate to challenge runs. Could you beat the game with those mechanics alone, never touching the guns? While Martin…
The fertile world of Doom WADs never ceases to amaze me, and Vault 666 is a recent release that really tickled my fancy. Modder Carl Asami’s Vault 666 is a send-up of both Doom and Fallout that asks: What if the Doom Guy had to save the wasteland? It’s a goofy, parodical sort of deal,…
Hideo Kojima took to the stage at SXSW today and – joined by some special guests – discussed new details about Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Those details included the reveal of the game’s release date: June 26, 2025. To mark the announcement – and pre-orders going live March 17* – attendees…
Talking to Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton for the cover story of PC Gamer’s upcoming print issue 408 (396 in the US), I had to ask what they thought about “the prequel problem.” Doom 2016 begins with the Slayer locked in a coffin with all his friends long-dead,…