Walter Day Books Are NOW IN (and the movie is in theaters) If you are going to be at the Midwest Gaming Classic this weekend, save Saturday at 7 p.m. for the showing of the new Walter Day Movie and make sure to stop by the meet-and-greet at the Old School Gamer Booth. We will have…
It’s time! It’s finally here! After what’s felt like an age, the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct is upon us. We don’t know about you, but even with the avalanche of information that’s about to drop (and the hand cramps that will no doubt follow in the coming hours from all the typing), it feels like…
Available to order now. Tokihiro Naito, creator of the seminal Hydlide series, has produced a new game for the MSX2 computer system. XeGrader is a “fantasy shooting game,” which Naito says “might be easiest to describe as a puzzle-solving adventure shooter.” Unlike traditional shmups, power-up items aren’t present; instead, upgrades are earned by solving puzzles….
“You fight fire with fire”. Of all the gaming brands, it’s fair to say that Tetris and Super Mario can both stand proud as two of the most instantly recognisable. They’re practically synonymous with the medium, and it’s clear that Henk Rogers, the entrepreneur who secured the rights to Tetris, knew the value of Alexey…
“I was just zoning out, thinking about random game ideas”. When people in the past talk about the inspirations behind Capcom’s arcade fighting series Street Fighter, they typically default to discussing the role of Irem’s Spartan X (better known as Kung Fu Master in North America) — and for pretty good reasons too. Both games…
Disco Elysium is a real special game at PC Gamer—we gave the original 2019 release a score of 92, calling it “an irresponsibly deep detective RPG that lets you be any kind of detective you want.” Then developer ZA/UM stepped it up a notch in 2021 with Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, adding full voice…
Dungeons & Dragons might be, if trends continue, one of the most mishandled success stories I’ve ever seen. And, if my powers of prophecy are correct, we’re starting to approach the low bend of a 10+ year arc where Hasbro, the parent company of D&D creators Wizards of the Coast (WoTC), has continually fumbled the…
Select restocks seemingly coming soon. After a couple of disastrous launches for recent Trading Card Game expansions, The Pokémon Company released a statement last week stating that it is “actively working to print more of the impacted Pokémon TCG products as quickly as possible and at maximum capacity”. We read the promise with a raised…
Saturn Ring Library goes live. Saturn’s dual processors made it a bit of a headache for developers back in the day, and modern-day homebrew creators are running into similar problems when it comes to creating new software for the 32-bit system. Thankfully, it sounds like things are going to get a lot easier due to…
Every day, people use laptops that don’t come with RGB keyboards, power-hungry graphics chips or battery lives measured in fractions of a heartbeat. They’re the ultraportables, the business machines, the PCs that make the world go round, and some of the best come from a name that will be familiar to PC Gamer readers: MSI….