The struggle isn’t nearly what it used to be, but there was a time when most of us assumed big new console game announcements did not include plans for a PC release—or even if we did get one, it wasn’t launching in a timely manner. More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to…
Over 5,000 miles separate the Finnish Museum of Games (Suomen Pelmuseo) located in Tampere from the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Frisco, Texas. The city of Frisco is the result of early 20th century railroad expansion, taking its name from the St. Louis-San Francisco railway, and early 21st century suburban sprawl (once the “fastest growing”…
Clear-eyed at last, I found myself cataloguing the differences. Not between Athens and Heraklion, or between riot cops and farmers, but between what I’d been shown and what I’d been denied. The teargas had been indiscriminate — it didn’t care whether you were a protester, a tourist with a rolling suitcase, or a scholar on…
When I visited M05’s Musée Du Jeu Vidéo and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during my university’s spring break in March 2026, I decided to visit London for the day. The urge to see the Design Museum’s “Wes Anderson: The Archives” and “Blitz: The Club that Shaped the 80s” was just too great. Paris can…
Final Sentence is a “battle royale typing game,” which is a weird idea but also one that sounds like it might be kind of fun, at least if you can type reasonably well. We first heard about it in 2025, when PC Gamer keyboard showboat Harvey Randall took it for a spin, finding potential but…
Old School Gamer Writer David Lloyd shares his thoughts on The Five Most Essential RPGs for Your Nintendo DS Catalogue. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey The Megami Tensei franchise started way back in 1987 with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei on the Famicom, but was mostly unknown to the West until it began to be…
Exciting news: Steam Workshop is pretty now. Or, at the very least, it’s prettier. Detailed in a Steam news post, Valve has released a Workshop update for all users, bringing an overhauled browsing UI and updated filtering options for finding whatever mod might wildly improve or severely blight your gameplay. “The next time you visit…
007 First Light is finally here, and we know there are lots of James Bond fans stepping into the exquisitely tailored suit of the world’s most famous spy* this week. While you’re practicing your spycraft in IOI’s new action adventure by arming yourself with gadgets, driving cool cars, sneaking through hotels, and blowing up airplanes,…
You probably haven’t heard of the indie puzzle game Ouros before now, but you may have seen it and possibly even played it in an altogether different game. That’s because, according to Ouros developer Michael Kamm, MiHoYo “copied” the game and put it into Zenless Zone Zero, a claim he backed up with some solid…
Last week was, ostensibly, the bullet heaven’s week. Steam declared it so with an official store tag, which I believe means everyone has to call each new entry in the Vampire Survivors genre a bullet heaven under penalty of law. But at least for me, the standout game of last week wasn’t in the bullet…