The soft crackle of a fire in the fireplace. Snow gently falling outside your window. The twinkling of festive lights throughout the neighborhood. The only thing that could complete this image is the glow of your PC’s RGB lights and a cup of hot cocoa. The holidays are typically seen as an opportunity to reconnect…
Category: Games December 17, 2025 Invincible VS: Extended Look at Brand-New Character, Ella Mental Mike Willette, Executive Producer, Invincible VS Summary Ella Mental, the first original character in Invincible VS, is joining the roster. Skybound’s in-house studio, Quarter Up, unveiled the brand-new fighter at The Game Awards, and is now sharing extended gameplay for a…
Looks like we won’t be getting our hands on a Horizon OS-powered VR headset made by Asus, Lenovo, or any other manufacturer for that matter. Meta has killed, for the time being, the program that was to see it all happen. “We have paused the program to focus on building the world-class first-party hardware and…
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. As a reader of PC Gamer you’re probably an expert when it comes to PC hardware… but what about the…
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. As a reader of PC Gamer you’re probably an expert when it comes to PC hardware… but what about the…
Oh look, zombies. And in full colou…ah, they’re eating me! Back in the middle of 1999 (a weird time for everyone, rest assured), British developer HotGen attempted something that was considered to be somewhat of an impossible task. Namely, porting the full glory of 32-bit Resident Evil to the dinky little 8-bit Game Boy Color….
Courtesy of Games That Weren’t. The lost media website Games That Weren’t has delivered an early Christmas present for Resident Evil fans: the “final build” of HotGen & Fluid Studios’ ambitious never-released Resident Evil port for the Game Boy Color (thank VGC!). Two builds have previously been recovered back in 2011 (by Kiff Storey and…
It looks like Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone may be getting up to his old shenanigans again, and by ‘old shenanigans’ I mean turning a small, just one more thing update into a big, beefy add-on. Barone said shortly after confirming the Stardew Valley 1.7 update is on the way that “it’s hard to just…
Yes, it has been 13 years since The Walking Dead: Season One was released by Telltale Games. Feel old yet? Not only that, but the Definitive collection of the entire Walking Dead mainline game franchise was released a whole six years ago. So, with that series being now well and truly buried, today we shall discuss…
In early role-playing games, unlocking new characters marked meaningful moments tied to story advancement, exploration, and player decisions rather than random rewards. Each addition to the party reflected narrative growth and reinforced a sense of earned progress. Looking closely at how these early systems functioned helps clarify why modern games still rely on those foundations….