All MMO quest journals are a massive waste of potential, except for FF14’s, which was good for exactly one storyline

Terminally Online This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. My credentials? Well, I’ve…

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Speculatively plotting GTA 6’s map is a painstaking, exhausting, and heroic effort: ‘We had 10 people search every street in StreetView, this took weeks—and failed’

If you’re a Grand Theft Auto-enjoyed, the painstaking wait for GTA 6 likely seems like a lifetime. Sitting on our hands, watching the clock, marking huge Xs on the calendar day-by-day—May 26, 2026 cannot come quick enough. For one GTA community, though, this is the busiest they’ve ever been. Founded in the run-up to GTA…

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The Making Of: The Operative – No One Lives Forever, Monolith’s Classic Spy-Themed FPS Trapped In Licensing Hell

“Austin Powers…completely changed the perception of our game”. Monolith Productions’s 1960s’-inspired first-person shooter game The Operative: No One Lives Forever is a title whose legend only grows year on year. Originally released in the year 2000, for PC, the spy-themed, gadget-filled adventure was an important project for the now shuttered Washington studio, helping to give…

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Pre-Fortress 2, a mod that bridges the gap between Team Fortress Classic and TF2, is coming to Steam with a whole lotta grenades

Team Fortress 2 modders love nothing more than imagining alternate histories for Valve’s long-running multiplayer shooter, and this year has seen several of these nostalgia-tinged conversions migrate from the rolling pastures of the web into Steam’s smog-belching metropolis. In March, Team Fortress 2 Classic revealed it would be launching on Valve’s platform sometime in 2025,…

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