Over in one corner of the extraction shooter genre you have Arc Raiders, Escape from Tarkov, and Marathon doing their own spins on what I call the “backpack” shooter, where the main motivation of a match is to fill up inventory slots. In the other corner you have Hunt: Showdown, an extraction shooter that has…
A Financial Times report (via Reuters) says the US government is debating whether Tencent’s holdings in US and Finnish videogame companies pose a national security risk, and whether it should be forced to divest them. Multiple sources said cabinet officials were scheduled to have a meeting on the matter earlier this week, ahead of US…
There’s a good feeling when you earn an achievement in a game and see that fewer than 1% of players have also earned it. It makes you feel like you’ve got some real gamer cred, like you’re made of sterner stuff than almost everyone else playing. A couple of gamers—and only a couple—are basking in…
Few men, fictional or otherwise, have spinkicked their way into the hearts of as many thirsty internet admirers as Leon S. Kennedy. And given his recent upgrade to hot uncle status thanks to the devoted efforts of the women on the Resident Evil Requiem dev team, there has been an intense interest in how long…
The CEO of MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says the studio now has “overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage” that torpedoed the game’s launch, and is pursuing legal action as a result. Unfortunately, the enduring impact of those underhanded actions means the studio is being forced to impose another round of layoffs….
It’s not just PC Gamer’s Elie Gould who loves the new Resident Evil. The ninth game in the series—not counting twice that number of spin-offs and remakes—has taken off like a rocket, selling more than five million copies since its release on February 27. Resident Evil Requiem had the series’ biggest-ever launch on Steam by…
I have no idea what to make of this, but more than two years after it was folded into Counter-Strike 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back on Steam. CS:GO was never fully scrubbed out of existence: Committed diehards could continue accessing the OG GO through a CS2 beta build, unceremoniously named “csgo_demo_viewer.” Online matchmaking was…
Deus Ex: Invisible War has its defenders, including PC Gamer’s own Joshua Wolens, but even the most stout-hearted of them would never go as far as saying it was a worthy sequel to the original. Where Deus Ex ripped up the rulebook and set an example that the immsim genre has struggled to replicate ever…
When World of Warcraft: Midnight players saw an NPC with an expensive painting for sale, they took it as a challenge. Blizzard developers love to sneak in secrets for people to try to solve and a 9,999,999 gold painting—the maximum amount of gold a single character can even have—was a clear tease for anyone who…
As my dapple grey Mongolian trudges through a foot of snow up the last hill into a remote mountain village, my character Naraa lifts her forearm to block the glare of the setting sun. For a moment, the shadows on the trails my horse’s hooves leave in the powder remind me of the same beautiful…