As if I needed more excuses to waste my time on YouTube when I could be doing literally anything else, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has been uploading episodes of the old D&D cartoon from the 1980s. Every Friday they show two or three episodes in a block, and they’re 11 episodes…
You’ve been playing 1000xResist for half a dozen chapters, enjoying changes in perspective and mechanics with each chapter shift. Yet the sudden jump to video still feels unusual when it happens—recorded footage of Hong Kong suddenly taking the place of a cutscene in the middle of the game. As creative director Remy Siu says, that…
We’re ready when you are, Nintendo. New ratings for Splatoon Raiders and Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave have reportedly been spotted on Nintendo’s European webpages. The spin-off Splatoon Raiders now has a ‘PEGI 7’ rating, and the new Fire Emblem game has apparently been updated from a provisional rating to a ‘PEGI 12’ rating. According to…
It’s no secret that arcade fighters reward absurd precision and reaction times, and that means you need robust netcode if you want to play these games online and have a good time. While rollback netcode has recently become the standard for big name fighters, the communities behind older games are understandably eager to see it…
As reported by The Toyark, Hasbro recently opened preorders for an Amazon-exclusive action figure two-pack in its primo Black Series line, one that revisits the all-timer Star Wars RPG and perennial PC Gamer favorite, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. Unfortunately, the dang thing’s already sold out. Included in the pack is…
As translated to English by Automaton, Japanese gaming website 4Gamer has published a feature on the late Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and the neo-Ninja Gaiden games. 4Gamer interviewed some of the developer’s collaborators, unearthing some surprising stories from the colorful developer’s life. In addition to his ultraviolent and occasionally terminally horny games,…
When it was announced that medieval cemetery management sim Graveyard Keeper was getting a sequel this week, the reveal attracted some uneasy comments on social media. Players thought the new key art had some of the uncanny hallmarks associated with generative AI, and it pushed some fans to scrutinize things further. “The promo art looks…
As reported by The Cybersec Guru, Rockstar Games has suffered a security breach of indeterminate scope by the group ShinyHunters. ShinyHunters has threatened to release the data if Rockstar does not pay a ransom, while the company has confirmed the validity of the claim in a statement to Cybersec Guru and Kotaku: “We can confirm…
The Steam Deck seems like a lovely machine for tackling retro games, since they tend not to guzzle storage space. That doesn’t mean their Steam versions are always deck verified, though—if you’ve hit this wall trying to replay Capcom classics like Dino Crisis or the OG Resident Evil games, you’ll be pleased to hear better…
Dungeon Master Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. At the end of 2024, I resigned myself to the fact that BioWare was no longer capable,…