The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion has opened its doors to pretty much any kind of small business venture you can dream up. It’s perfect for my Build Mode brain that loves to spend four hours designing a place and then never playing it. That’s the hard part though: coming up with ideas for…
For the cover story of PC Gamer’s upcoming print issue #408 (#396 for those of us in the US), I had the chance to talk to Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton about the upcoming FPS. One thing I just had to ask about was that utterly nasty gun…
Monster Hunter Wilds is a major hit, and it’s also kind of a mess: It put up nearly 1.4 million concurrent players on Steam alone on launch day, a massive jump over Monster Hunter: World’s peak of 334,684, and rocketed to eight million copies sold in just three days—the fastest game to hit that mark…
By any measure, Balatro is a phenomenon. A weird little indie card game that came out of nowhere in 2023, it earned rave reviews when it launched in early 2024, claimed our Game of the Year crown, and has some of the biggest developers and publishers in the world lining up to get in on…
The Sims 4 really does reflect the best and worst parts of life, including the reality of dealing with disruptive customers in retail jobs. The Business & Hobbies expansion came with the ability to run all sorts of new small business ventures—with so much freedom that you might need help just coming up with small…
The first time I woke up last night, somewhere around three in the morning, I checked my phone to see if online stores had already posted and sold out of their stock of AMD’s new RX 9070 XT graphics cards, which carried with them the promise of a GPU launch that would finally have plenty…
Early playtesting of the next Battlefield game is now underway—there hasn’t been an official announcement to that effect as far as I know, but we can tell because gameplay footage is flooding the internet. The testing is taking place under the auspices of Battlefield Labs, the initiative announced in February that aims to ensure future…
Sony has won the bidding war for the Resident Evil movie reboot—the same studio that released the first (bad) six Resident Evil live action movies, plus the Jovovich-less (and still bad) reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City in 2021. Some things never change, I guess. Maybe the eighth time will be the charm? As…
It is to my not insubstantial regret that I didn’t get around to writing about how fun Hearthstone’s Starcraft crossover mini-set turned out. The Zerg cards really nailed the assignment when it came to being rage-inducing swarmy bastards, while the Terran faction also felt super-flavourful thanks to Jim Ryan launching weaponised starships like Elon Musk…
In the lead-up to Avowed’s launch, game director Carrie Patel quoted its ending permutations as being in the “double digits,” and having seen the end, I don’t even have to get into more granular quest results to come up with a similar number. There are two major choices at the end of the game that…