Paradox has always dabbled in a smorgasbord of styles, especially when you consider all its published games, but its in-house efforts are almost all grand strategy games where you paint real-world provinces your favorite color. But before it had solidified that reputation, it was trying to make a name in other genres. Trying, and failing…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering a little backstory and recommendations for tracks you should be adding to your playlist. No videogame genre has birthed more…
It’s fair to say that The Outer Worlds 2 loves its weird weapons. From the first moment you step foot on Paradise Island, you’ll start discovering all sorts of strange murder contraptions, from a sniper rifle that fires sneaky explosive bolts you detonate when you reload, to a pistol that infects enemies with a contagious…
Interest-Ing. Hello hello, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at Hey You, Pikachu! for the N64, and although neither version was particularly popular, it was the North American version that won the day with 61% of the vote. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Give Ryu, Chun-Li and Ken a new look. McDonald’s Japan recently teamed up with Capcom’s Street Fighter series to offer a new range of burgers. If you’re not able to make it to Japan in time to taste test each one, this might be the next best thing. The global fast food restaurant is now…
Another patch is on the way. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted launched for the Switch and Switch 2 this week, and PopCap has already rolled out some updates. First up, this includes Patch 1.2. Here are all the changes for this patch including updates to graphics, the Vs Mode, gameplay, audio and more. Here’s the full…
We’ve cooked up a fresh batch of hints for today’s Wordle if you need them, as well as a clue that can either help you get started, or save the day when you’re wondering what the heck to do with a few yellow letters that don’t seem to fit in anywhere. Try them out and…
When Darktide’s Arbites Class DLC arrived, it came alongside a free update called The Battle for Tertium, which added a campaign mode at long last. Rather than the story coming to a halt once the prologue ended, players had the option to be guided through missions with bespoke voiceover, cutscenes, even unique enemy spawns to…
It’s a landmark year for the proximity-based voice chat party game. Mage Arena and R.E.P.O. have joined the likes of Lethal Company and Content Warning as wildly successful entrants into the nascent style—and genre superlative Peak made it comfortably into PC Gamer’s Top 100 this year. Players are clearly itching for more, as evidenced by…
Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week’s multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to come into work and crack wise: “Bumped into a server rack with my big ass and unplugged it this morning, hope nobody notices!” I may have been closer to the mark this time: As reported…