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…
But the Switch experience is reportedly “worse”. Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots can be a fun experience on Switch, but there are admittedly certain areas of its game that could be improved (like performance). Fortunately, developer Hyde and Bandai Namco seem to already be addressing some problems. As highlighted by the YouTube channel Good Vibes Gaming…
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. What can we say about videogame movies? Not that they’re good, certainly—they usually aren’t, with a handful of begrudging exceptions….
“Have you ever wanted to just be a worm for a day?” asks Riley Neville, the creator of the wacky annelid simulator Wirm. To which my response is “Not until now.” Crawling through the ground while pushing dirt through my pink and boneless body has, you’ll be surprised to hear, never sounded like a fun…
Sucker Punch is best known on PC for its open-world samurai game Ghost of Tsushima and its upcoming sequel Ghost of Yōtei—which will almost certainly come to PC given Sony’s track record in recent years. Yet before it became the architect of lavish Japanese islands, Sucker Punch developed the Infamous games for Sony, and before…
Clear Bowser history. Please, angry mob, wait! It’s true, I had never finished Super Mario Bros. before this week, but that’s not to say that I hadn’t played it before. If you’ll put your pitchforks and burning torches down for a moment, I promise, I can explain. It was 2004 when I first came into…
While I’m not an enormous wargame fan, Unity of Command is the exception. The original game, which released way back in 2011, boiled down the infamous complexity of the genre into a more accessible turn-based strategy, focussing primarily on tactical manoeuvres and managing supply lines rather than any base building or faffing around with economics….
“We actually made them”. Nintendo is really mixing it up nowadays with merchandise, and the next surprise product on the way is a talking flower. It’s not just any talking flower though, it’s the same one based on the character from the 2023 Switch release Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is one of the more surprising successes of 2025. Questline’s open-world RPG gives Arthurian legend the Elder Scrolls treatment, letting players explore a decaying, war-torn version of Avalon while guided by the ghost of King Arthur. Tainted Grail’s unusual world and intriguing questlines more than made up for a…
Silksong? That was ages ago, mate. Do try to keep up. Good Mario, morning fans! It’s that time of the week once again, and now that the Super Mario 40th anniversary plans have been fully unveiled via the latest Direct…well…we’re maybe not gonna be diving into quite as much Mario as we had sorta hoped…