Before RPGs, 1986,to strong narrative. Sir-Tech’s Wizardry from 1981 dumped players into a massive 10-floor dungeon with little more than a sentence of congratulatory text for beating the game. The first Ultima came out the same year and switched players from a first-person perspective in dungeons to a quasi bird’s-eye view when venturing the overworld,…
A new report suggests motherboard manufacturers are in a bad state right now, with the memory crisis and the Iran war affecting all kinds of PC hardware. As PC builders are disincentivised from, well, building PCs, the motherboards needed for them also get left behind. The report, from Digitimes, notes a “collapse” for many motherboard…
How a tiny British studio helped Nintendo fly in 3D. To celebrate the surprise announcement of a new Star Fox outing, we thought it would be a good idea to dig into the archives for previous features we’ve written on the series. 30 years ago, British engineering ingenuity and Japanese design savvy elegantly combined to…
Those mad overlords. Atari has announced that it has acquired the rights to the Wizardry RPG series, including the original five titles and the underlying IP. To be more specific, these five games include Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981), Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (1982), Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn (1983),…
Bride Hard. Mega Cat Studios has announced that it is bringing the top-down shooter Lethal Wedding to Genesis / Mega Drive via a Kickstarter campaign. Described as “a love letter to 16-bit shooter classics like Zombies Ate My Neighbors and action flicks from the ’80s and ’90s,” Lethal Wedding sees you assuming the role of…
Given the current price of PC parts, I’ve got a feeling these percentages will change as we keep hold of components for longer, but as things currently stand, nearly half of PC Gamer readers are rather measured when it comes to how often they upgrade their gaming rigs. We recently asked you: How long do…
The Nintendo Switch 2 felt quite pricey at launch, what with its $450 price tag and all. However, the memory crisis has hit everyone, and the Japanese company is feeling pressure to raise its prices. This is all according to a recent report from Bloomberg. It notes that Nintendo’s stock price has been on a…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In April, Pragmata landed as the top downloaded game in the top the Asia charts, while Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes debuted on the PS VR2 charts, and NTE made an appearance on free-to-play. Check out the full…
This brings back memories of yurrr dad. Well, that was something to wake up to: Star Fox 64 is coming back! Again. Back in mid-April, following rumours that Nintendo was dusting down the Arwings for a first-party mission after a decade in the hanger, we ran an article asking what we’d really want from a…
For the banishment of all doubt, no, Google isn’t scraping the contents of your email inbox in order to train its AI models. However, that doesn’t mean Gmail is free of Gemini, and sooner or later you’ll need to decide your own personal boundaries with AI. Google announced at the start of the year that…