For the brave among us who are diving into Silksong without having played Hollow Knight, some of the game’s quirks will seem a bit opaque. One of these quirks is the map system, or rather, the seeming lack of it. It’s definitely not uncommon for exploration-focused platformers to have obscure or downright useless maps, but…
In an interview with PC Gamer earlier this year, Eric Barone, beloved creator of Stardew Valley, mused that he might need to go hole up in a cabin in the woods to be able to fully focus on making his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. Considering he’s recently announced that Stardew Valley will be getting a…
It’s tough to survive just a few days in the wilderness, but 99 Nights in the Forest tasks you with roughin’ it way longer—though I reckon the name gives that away. The survival crafting Roblox experience from developer Grandma’s Favorite Games is no joke, and after dying to its nasty deer entity several times early…
Three months after Disney and Universal sued AI image generator Midjourney for copyright infringement, Warner Bros Discovery has joined the fight. The media giant has launched its own lawsuit against Midjourney, accusing it of “brazenly dispens[ing] Warner Bros Discovery’s intellectual property as if it were its own.” Midjourney is a generative AI service that produces…
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. It’s been a while since I abandoned my last Baldur’s Gate 3 character somewhere in the Shadow-Cursed Lands, so naturally…
Earlier today, Netflix released the second season of the stop motion animated series Pokemon Conceirge to little fanfare. At just four episodes, making a whopping total of eight twenty-minute vignettes of life as an island resort for Pokemon, it’s easy to see why Pokemon Conceirge is such a low-key project. This isn’t the expression…
Hollow Knight: Silksong finally went live today—you may have heard something about that—and its arrival absolutely demolished Steam, which simply could not hold up under the crushing demand of Skongmania. As Steam crumbled like a train bridge made of soggy noodles, GOG did what it does best: Took a shot from the shadows. “It appears…
Our long nightmare is finally over. After years of prolonged and intensifying mania, Silksong is here, which means the long-suffering souls of the Silksong subreddit can finally know a semblance of peace. Our Harvey Randall has traditionally served as our chief chronicler of that community’s beautiful, baffling collective derangement, but sadly the UK writers are…
Walk into an online casino and you may expect a futuristic display. Something like a science fiction set, blinking panels, smooth chrome. Instead you often find a screen that could have been lifted from 1987. Squared edges, simple colours, music that sounds like a kettle boiling in rhythm. What ought to be obsolete has been…
As the saying goes on Arrakis, the spice must flow—and for a limited time starting next week that spice will be on sale. Dune: Awakening is having its first discount starting on September 11 and running until September 22, during which Funcom’s survival MMO will be on sale for 20% off. This sale coincides with…