Life is Strange is officially getting a screen adaptation on Amazon Prime Video, first reported by Variety. The show will retell the story of the first game in the series, which was originally released in 2015 by Don’t Nod. It’s too early for any casting announcements, but we know who will be writing and producing….
“It’s bizarre that Musk would not recognise where he sits in the Deus Ex universe”. The co-writer of the original Deus Ex has indulged in a pretty sizeable rant about the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and pointed out his discomfort at the fact that Musk considers the game to be one of his favourites….
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Twin peeks. BOKURA: planet is a two-player, two-device-only co-op game that launched on Switch and Switch 2 on 7th August. A follow-up to 2023’s BOKURA, indie developer tokoronyori says of the first game that he “kept wondering what scenery I might have seen if I’d gone in the complete opposite direction…In the end, I couldn’t…
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…
While Myst and its sequel Riven are omnipresent games thanks to developer Cyan Worlds constantly remaking them, games directly inspired by Myst are few and far between. The most notable example is Jonathan Blow’s maze-obsessed puzzler The Witness, which distressingly will be a decade old come January. Now though, veteran publisher MicroProse has just released…
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 one of the basic natural laws of videogames: get too many NPCs together in the same place, and they…
Trawling through Facebook looking for some fresh Wednesday news, and I’ve just found out through the Scorpion Engine Facebook page, that RetroRic (Wardner) is working on a Mortal Kombat II AGA project. A new development that is being created using Earok’s Scorpion engine. Although this sounds like awesome news, it’s still going to be difficult to…
Like a reverse black hole, Stellaris continues to pump out additional matter into its swirling galaxy of expansions. Just four months on from the Biogenesis addon, which built out the 4X’s bioengineering pathways, the Shadows of the Shroud DLC will expand the minds of psionic players on September 22. According to Paradox, Shadows of the…
Tempest Rising finally broke the RTS curse when it arrived earlier this year, delivering a thrilling remix of Command & Conquer‘s classic strategy action, while also remembering to add proper singleplayer campaigns alongside its competitive multiplayer. If I had one complaint, though, it would be that keeping up with the pace of its singleplayer could…