Marathon is in a flat spin right now, but half a year ago—and despite some bumpiness at Bungie—Sony had high hopes: So high that it hired Oscar-winning director Alberto Mielgo to head up the creation of an eight-minute cinematic short that lays the foundation for the game’s setting and story. It’s very sharp and stylish,…
Stronger Edition Title Screen When it comes to one-on-one fighting games, the Commodore 64 is generally not the go-to system. While there were a few impressive entries during the long history of the system, such as Way of the Exploding Fist and the International Karate series, C64 gamers never received a fighter in the vein…
Downdetector is a simple website that tells you whether or not online services like Discord are functioning so that you can determine whether problems accessing them are on their end or on yours. A funny thing happened this week, though: During a big Cloudflare outage on Tuesday, Downdetector itself went down. What do you do…
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. If I were to show you a tiny sliver of a screenshot from a game like Counter-Strike or Minecraft or…
There are a lot of tough bosses in the recently released wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet, but none of them can match the sheer power of the goose. Check the subreddit or the Steam forums and you’ll see threads of befuddled players with titles like “Goose??” and “please be careful around geese” and “throw every…
The legal dispute between Krafton and the former top dogs at Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds is now at the point where the lawyers are fully in control, sifting through the sands of everything everyone’s said and done over the past decade or so in search of the Ace Attorney bomb that will blow things…
Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective, a new DLC for the ultimate numbers-go-up roguelike, launched on Steam yesterday to something new for Gearbox since it took over the game: Player acclaim. After taking over development duties from original indie developer Hopoo Games last year, Gearbox stepped in it pretty hard, releasing DLC so bad that…
On January 17, 2025, Update v33.20 brought King Kong to Fortnite as an Epic outfit that players could purchase for 1,500 V-Bucks. But while the dizzying pace of our contemporary culture might make it hard to remember, King Kong existed in media long before he could hit the Griddy or kill Sabrina Carpenter for sport….
The first thing people usually remember about the dawn and early days of console gaming is unlikely to be Blackjack. The influence of digital card games runs deeper than many realise. Long before sprawling adventure quests and cinematic platformers defined the medium, developers experimented with simple concepts that could run on limited hardware. Blackjack was…
Some people have a great fondness for working in an office. I am not one of them; I consider normalizing work from home the only silver lining of Covid-19. When the pandemic initially sent entire corporate industries home, there was a flurry of experimentation in using games not just as hangout spaces, but online meeting…