There’s still a part of me that thinks of 2016’s Stellaris as one of the “new school” Paradox grand strategy games, even though it turned 10 years old just this week. If you were to add all of its 30+ DLCs to your Steam cart right now, it would run you upwards of $200—and that’s…
Most strategy games that make it to 10 years old have already passed the event horizon of their development cycle and are being pulled apart like spaghetti by the gravity of the thousands of new games released every day. Not so for Stellaris, Paradox’s spacebound grand strategy 4X. How it got to where it is…
It’s time to dust off your Fox amiibo. Star Fox for Switch 2 comes loaded with all sorts of features and if you happen to have an amiibo on hand, you’ll be able to receive some extra in-game goodies. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Crimson Desert is a solo RPG, but you’d be forgiven if you mistook it for a live service MMO just based on the headlines it generates. It’s morphed and added features rapidly in response to player feedback—as PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor put it, “the playerbase says jump, and Pearl Abyss says how high.”…
Fallout co-creator and prolific RPG programmer Tim Cain’s YouTube channel is a treasure trove of what-if stories. What if WildStar had shown up to the MMO craze just a few years earlier? What if Interplay made Fallout 3 instead of Bethesda? What if THAC0 wasn’t so egregiously confusing that Cain’s encyclopedic knowledge of it didn’t…
An anniversary live stream will air this month. Dragon Quest is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month, and it’s now been revealed there’ll be a live stream taking place. Series creator Yuji Horii shared this news in the latest episode of the KosoKoso Broadcast, noting the team should be able to make a special announcement…
MMOs stop being games where you go kill mobs for XP and chase fat loot when you discover player housing. Once that bug nips you, they become 3D diorama creation software with a bunch of useless RPG crap tacked on for a few days, or maybe forever, depending on your capacity for rotating couches. I’ve…
On May 7, Double Fine—the developer behind Psychonauts, Keeper, and Kiln, which has been under Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios umbrella since 2019—filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board on May 7 (via Aftermath). The push includes all 42 of Double Fine’s “regular part-time and full-time employees.” The studio’s move to unionize…
A whopping six years ago, former features producer Andy Kelly and I had a big ol’ fight. It was a respectful one, though, taking place exclusively in our respective articles regarding the news that Baldur’s Gate 3 would feature turn-based battles. Andy thought this sucked, wishing Larian had stuck with real-time-with-pause. I, meanwhile, was over…
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. Ah,…