Why Arcade Design Still Matters Today If you walked into an arcade in the 1990s, you didn’t need instructions. The screen told you everything with bright visuals, simple controls, and instant action. That same thinking sits behind many of today’s biggest mobile games. The technology has moved forward, but the core ideas haven’t changed. Developers…
Including DLC and a brand new game. At Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 this week, Bandai Namco shared two announcements tied to the future of its Dragon Ball Xenoverse series. Firstly, “the last DLC” for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – officially titled Future Saga Chapter 4 – will launch in Summer 2026. Read the…
5th-generation QD-OLED panels solve one of the biggest critiques levied at OLED monitors: Font fringing. With burn-in becoming less and less of an issue and prices steadily going down, blurry text is one of the biggest hurdles giving IPS any sort of an edge anymore. AOC and its sister company Philips both have 5th-generation QD-OLED…
Thanks to user DamnInteresting on Hacker News, I’ve found my latest rabbit hole obsession on the Internet Archive: A significant portion of the English back catalogue of Byte Magazine, the granddaddy of personal computing periodicals, stretching all the way back to 1975. If you’re unfamiliar with Byte, the magazine basically grew up alongside personal computing….
I know what’s got you down. “Oh, it’s nothing,” I hear you lament. “I just want to play 2002 real-time tactics superhero RPG Freedom Force, but I don’t have access to the PC Gamer character skins exclusive to the June 2002 demo disc!” I think I speak for everyone when I say we have all…
When I spoke to Christoffer Bodegård, developer of the running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb (which uses a modified form of D&D 5th Edition rules), I had to ask: Why a Cleric? The ubiquitous fantasy holy healers never feel like protagonist material to me—I’d much rather be a sneaky little Dick-Ass Rogue. There was…
Windrose, the latest survival-crafter to take Steam by storm, started selling like hot cakes the moment it launched—or, to be era-appropriate, like salt pork and bug-infested hardtack. It’s continued to rake in the doubloons since launch, and in less than a week, has “plundered” the 1 million copies sold milestone. The team at Kraken Express…
Pro skatin’ with Tony Hawk wouldn’t have felt half as cool without tracks like Motorhead’s Ace of Spades, and I fear I wouldn’t have cried as much as I did at the end of Life is Strange if not for Foals’ Spanish Sahara. Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where…
Videogames love pitting players against the moon or otherwise convincing them it’s a big problem, and while I loved Pragmata, it only saddled me with more lunar trauma. David Menkin, the actor who played protagonist Hugh, has always loved the big grey rock, but as he mentioned in an interview with Polygon, he had to…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, first encountered PC…