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…
As reported by Vice, it appears that a review of Valve’s new Steam controller was shared early to YouTube by the channel TechyTalk before getting pulled from the platform—but users quickly screen recorded the review and shared it to other sites, like Streamable. The review revealed the new controller’s MSRP: $100 ($99, but come on)….
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. Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred is nipping at our heels, and to prepare I’ve been mucking around…
It’s hard enough to keep up with every big game coming out these days, and I imagine that remains true even if you’re mostly invested in licensed Star Wars games. There’s a shedload of them at this point, and two especially promising newbies are en route: podrace ’em up Galactic Racer, and tactics RPG Zero…
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. World…
So THAT was the Imprisoning War… After 40 years and 21 mainline games (counting the multiplayer ones, discounting remakes and remasters), we like to think that we’ve got a pretty good grasp on the Zelda formula by now. Sure, there’s every chance that the series will have a ‘Breath of the Wild moment’ again somewhere…
I don’t envy the people who have to come up with MMO expansion names—firstly, you need to make sure its acronym isn’t some kind of rude word (shoutout to FF14’s Endwalker making me call my favourite MMO “ew” for two years). But you also need to encapsulate that expansion’s shtick. More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian…
I used to think that the heart of a perfect Fortnite Battle Royale loot pool was two strong shotguns: a pump-action for raw one-shot power, and an automatic shotgun for drawn out fights. Pump shotguns bark the last word in expert hands, but spammy weapons are more forgiving if, like me, your aim is mush….
While still very much at the ‘early’ stage of early access, Menace is by all accounts an excellent take on turn-based tactics. Wannabe space mercenary Jonathan Bolding was effusive in his praise of its approach to the genre when he deployed into its sci-fi universe in March. “I can’t stress enough how much fun Menace’s…
AI is coming to take my job, so I’d better start looking for a new one. Luckily, there are a ton of job simulators on Steam, and I’m going to play as many as I can until I find my next career. This week’s job: Gun Store Simulator, an early access sim about running a…