A Silksong gumshoe meticulously pixel counted both games to directly compare the size of their worlds, and Pharloom looks twice as big as Hallownest

Reddit user Karmyuh has produced one of the first major works of Silksongology: A direct size comparison of Pharloom and Hallownest, taking into account that Silksong’s world has been scaled up to account for the taller Hornet. “By overlaying screenshots of Hornet across both games, I found out that Hornet actually takes up the exact…

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The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist’s depraved mind

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…

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Lights! Camera! Quiz time! How well do you know the weird and not-so-wonderful world of videogame movies?

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. What can we say about videogame movies? Not that they’re good, certainly—they usually aren’t, with a handful of begrudging exceptions….

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This physics platformer about a wiggly worm that travels into space has even got Tim Schafer excited: ‘It looks super cute and fun’

“Have you ever wanted to just be a worm for a day?” asks Riley Neville, the creator of the wacky annelid simulator Wirm. To which my response is “Not until now.” Crawling through the ground while pushing dirt through my pink and boneless body has, you’ll be surprised to hear, never sounded like a fun…

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If you were hoping to see Sly Cooper on PC for some reason, think again: Ghost of Yōtei dev says ‘it’s been a long time’ since the series’ heyday and nobody at Sucker Punch wants to make those games anymore

Sucker Punch is best known on PC for its open-world samurai game Ghost of Tsushima and its upcoming sequel Ghost of Yōtei—which will almost certainly come to PC given Sony’s track record in recent years. Yet before it became the architect of lavish Japanese islands, Sucker Punch developed the Infamous games for Sony, and before…

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