PowerWash simulator isn’t just a meditative cleaning game with more pop culture crossovers than you can shake a stick at; it’s a virtual stress ball second only to non-virtual sex and it’s the best Far Cry game PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens has ever played. It’s accrued over 35,000 user reviews on Steam, where…
Polite society buried a lot of platformer mascots as we exited the 90s, but something Bubsy had over contemporaries like Gex and Croc (it’s a crock of something, alright!) is that his games were astoundingly, memorably dreadful. Bubsy is the best evidence we have that all publicity is good publicity, because he’s still getting games…
As reported by Eurogamer, EA has not only resolved the glitches with its first party app that were keeping players out of Battlefield 6 on launch day, the publisher is also offering free season passes and other goodies to affected players as a mea culpa. “Today, we experienced an outage on the EA app that…
Based on the Macintosh CD version. French modder VBT has ported Delphine Software’s iconic Flashback: The Quest for Identity to the Sega Saturn and is looking to the homebrew community for help testing and polishing the port. Taking the Macintosh CD version of the game as his starting point, VBT has used the Reminiscence engine…
In a retro market typically dominated by high concept companies advertising their commitment to nostalgia or cheap Chinese knockoffs, 8BitDo operates in a curious middle ground. Very little is known about the history of the company, save that it was founded in Hong Kong in 2013 by a group of gaming enthusiasts, although its actual…
I’ve never played an invite-only beta test with such a fully-formed ranking system as Deadlock’s, but I guess when everyone gets unlimited plus-ones, the audience is big enough to warrant it. Besides, the game’s beta status didn’t stop me lamenting my place in Arcanist IV—below average, assuming ranks fall into normal distribution—but a patch dropped…
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…
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. I love a good card game, and developers seem to agree with me. Not only have deckbuilders become one of…
For a very brief period before becoming PC Gamer’s weekend newshound, I wrote a newsletter dedicated to rounding up the best Steam demos of any given week. By far and away the best demo I played during those days was for a little game called Sektori. If you haven’t heard of Sektori, it’s a geometric…
Not to be alche-missed. When it comes to the Atelier series, variety is the spice of life. One might think that more than 25 games deep into developer Gust’s long-running RPG series, the sheen of that trademark gameplay loop of collecting materials, learning recipes, and crafting items via alchemy would start to dull a little….