The modern MMO’s biggest enemy is difficulty, because pleasing everyone is basically impossible—and yet, they must

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. MMORPGs…

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Guide: Best Nintendo Switch ‘Walking Simulators’ And Narrative Games

These boots were made for environmental storytelling. Updated with the outstanding despelote. Enjoy! Walking Simulators and narrative games have become more prominent over the past decade. The ‘walking simulator’ term, originally a pejorative descriptor of a genre where ‘you just walk about’, was quickly reclaimed by fans and developers looking to branch out beyond the…

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To celebrate the imminent launch of a new Styx adventure, Epic is giving away Cyanide’s last two goblin-flavoured stealth games for free

Remember Styx? Cyanide Studios’ horrible goblin was the hottest stealth game protagonist of the early 2010s. By this I mean he was the only stealth game protagonist of the early 2010s, as bona-fide sneaking games were vanishingly rare. Then Hitman returned from the dead, and everybody forgot about Styx for a while. But the fast-talking,…

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The sequel to isometric mech sim Brigador gives off serious Syndicate vibes in its latest footage, and you can play its alpha version right now

Isometric mech sim Brigador is 10 years old this year—a fact that kicked me right in the mortality given that I was certain it only came out a few years ago. The original version of Stellar Jockeys’ shoot ’em up was a decent, if flawed affair. But the developer spent the next year overhauling the…

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