There’s still not a whole lot we know about the upcoming Virtua Fighter, headed up by Yakuza studio Ryu Ga Gotoku… and even after a 50-minute showing at Tokyo Game Show this week, that remains true. But hey, we did get a look at a brand-new battle system that’ll be in the game, which plans…
Last month, Microsoft introduced Advanced Shader Delivery, a mechanism that claims to solve one of the biggest annoyances PC gamers face these days: shader compilation. Although the technology will initially be limited to the Asus ROG Xbox Ally handhelds and games purchased through the Xbox app, an update to Agility SDK means that other vendors…
Based on reports from our sources, PC Gamer can confirm that Japan is large. Not only large—huge, and stacked from top to bottom with stuff to do. At press time, Tokyo was reportedly at least twice as big as Milton Keynes and the island of Hokkaido was said to ‘make the Isle of Wight look…
Disney Dreamlight Valley is rolling out its next update, Return to Beast’s Castle, on October 1, 2025, which will take us back to the Beauty and the Beast realm to meet two new characters. We’ve only had a very brief look into the update, revealing that Cogsworth and Lumiere will be joining us, but outside…
Consider this! I’m gonna put my hands up here. I’d never even heard of G-Mode’s Kuukiyomi series before – not once have I ever had it mentioned to me. And I’m puzzled, because judging by the official description of KUUKIYOMI 4: Consider It — now that my attention has finally been drawn to it by…
In the world of Japanese role-playing games, there are few titles as beloved and timeless as Chrono Trigger. Responsible for pushing the JRPG genre forward in terms of narrative tropes, accessible gameplay, and thematic tone, its influence is undeniable in the modern landscape. It makes sense that this 1995 Super Nintendo title would become a…
Confession time: I’ve not played Silksong yet. This is not, despite what my enemies might tell you, because I’m very scared of its many difficult bosses, but is in fact because I’m a man of stalwart principle. The monsters at Team Cherry removed Hornet’s shaw. In the original Hollow Knight, Hornet was a chatty sort….
Often, there’s no unique selling point to a gaming mouse: it either offers good quality for a great price, or it doesn’t. But occasionally, there’s something new enough about a mouse, or something that it does well enough, to give it that very definite selling point stamp, and I think that’s the case here with…
Say hello to the ‘MegaWang 2000 Turbo Edition’. If you’re old enough to have been gaming during the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 era, then you’ll be familiar with Imagine Software. This Liverpool-based company was one of the leading lights of the UK industry in the 1980s, producing a series of commercially successful titles at…
A demo is also planned. Playtonic Games has this week confirmed the Switch 2 version of Yooka-Replaylee will run at a “consistent” 30fps in docked and handheld mode. In a post on social media, the developer mentioned how the team had “limited time” with Switch 2 dev kits ahead of the game’s October launch, and…