As reported by Gaming on Linux, a new bill brought before the US House would require operating systems like Windows, Linux, and MacOS to verify users’ age for installation and, seemingly, regular use. The “Parents Decide Act” has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and is cosponsored by New Jersey Democrat…
Videogames have given me more opportunities to blow up titanic scifi battleships than I could ever hope to count. But I’ve rarely gotten the opportunity to experience the other side of that equation as the guy commanding the fleet’s worth of cannons, laser batteries, and missile bays bristling across a single massive floating monolith. One…
It’s amazing what a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they’re no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament…
A videogame is a product of combined expertise across dozens of disciplines. But in a recently-published Youtube video titled “Have an Idiot at the Table,” former BioWare producer Mark Darrah said it’s valuable during a game’s development to have someone with only a layman’s understanding present in discussions about design and direction—provided they understand when…
Arc Raiders has many wonderful qualities that make it the most popular extraction shooter around, but its current Expeditions grind isn’t one of them. Serving as Arc’s take on the season wipe, Expeditions give players the option to reset their progress in exchange for permanent upgrades, like extra stash size and skill points. Up until…
Just over a year after laying off 66 employees in what the studio said was was a “last resort” effort to “enable our long term survival,” Iron Galaxy, the developer of games including Killer Instinct seasons 2 and 3, Rumbleverse, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4, has announced that it is once again…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Without fail, any time I see a horse in a game I immediately stop, cheerfully yell, “horse!” and rush the…
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Wrapped up a replay of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and questioned if a better stealth game exists 21 years later. This week is the most excited I’ve been about Battlefield 6 since it launched. EA announced that seven more maps are coming this year, and several…
Here at PCG towers we’ve recently been unearthing a bunch of classic interview material from our publishing company Future’s decades-long history in print media. Earlier today I wrote about a 2014 interview in which the design lead on the first Elder Scrolls fondly recalled the days when Bethesda would finish a game, then the team…
Donkey Kong not only started a trend with platform games back then, but it also created a vast universe of games based on the two main characters from the game (Donkey Kong and Mario, then known as Jumpman). I remember seeing this game for the very first time in the arcade in my hometown in…