Have I ever complained about boss fights before? Spoiler alert: Yes I have, multiple times, in these very pages. Is that going to keep me from doing it again? Not a chance, pal. Because listen, it bears repeating: Boss fights are bullshit—tedious holdovers from the arcade era designed to separate stupid kids (like me) from…
Anthem isn’t getting shuttered for good until January 2026, but it’s already spent years as one of the industry’s preeminent tragedies. This week, former Anthem executive producer and BioWare veteran Mark Darrah published the first of a multi-video YouTube series about the game’s ill-fated production history, and how BioWare’s storytelling chops might have been too…
Dead aim. I don’t think I’ve ever messed around with a game’s settings menu as much as The House of the Dead 2: Remake. And, unfortunately, try as I might, I could never get the game to feel ‘good’. Much like its predecessor on the Switch, Forever Entertainment’s latest arcade revamp is limited to just…
We don’t know a whole lot about the setting for Battlefield 6, but the broad strokes were revealed late last week: “Major European countries” have pulled out of NATO, leaving the US and some unspecified number of remaining allies to stand alone against a massive mercenary outfit called Pax Armata. It’s a scenario that feels…
Elden Ring Nightreign’s latest update brought many great things with it: a new Everdark boss (Augur), highly anticipated duo expeditions, and a brilliant new relic sorting system. But something rather unexpected also came with: whispers of upcoming (unannounced) Nightreign content. After the recent patch, dataminers got to work sifting through files to see if there…
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it’s bad. Do you ever wish everyone in our hobby were more angry about something that grinds your gears? For me, it’s the…
If you’ve got enough money in your pocket to buy a Double Whopper combo but you’re not feeling especially hungry right now, I’ve got a good alternative plan for getting rid of it: Humble Bundle’s “Play the Legends” collection of Warner Bros. games, which includes 16 really good games (well, 15, plus Suicide Squad) for…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Forget letter grades, numbers, stars, and percentages: No metric for evaluating videogames has ever matched what Chet Faliszek and Erik…
Doesn’t bode well for the impending Kickstarter campaign. James Pond is one of the classic characters of the ’90s gaming scene, but time hasn’t been kind to the underwater agent. Since his third mainline adventure, Pond has been treated rather shoddily, with the ultimate insult being a Kickstarter campaign (involving original creator Chris Sorrell, who…
Lore of the Swings. From the moment Nintendo revealed Pauline’s presence in Donkey Kong Bananza, I knew one thing for certain: I was going to be writing a feature on the DK timeline in the next two months. Look, you know I love Bananza. DK and Pauline have such a wholesome little relationship, I adored…