College Football 27 to remove microtransactions after player backlash, though EA maintains they were only added to ‘give players more choice’

The latest EA Sports College Football game has finally arrived, which is tantalizing news if you were excited for the series’ hotly anticipated comeback a couple years ago. Less tantalizing is the game’s reception, which so far has been marred by widespread backlash to its egregious microtransactions. Complaining works: in a post on X yesterday,…

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The Elder Scrolls Online’s developer deserved better than to get sucker-punched by Microsoft twice in two years

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. I’m…

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Talking Point: New Ocarina = New amiibo? Nintendo Needs To Make These Zelda Figurines

amiibocarina time. With an Ocarina of Time remake coming later in the year, it’s got me looking at my bookshelf of Ocarina-related knick-knacks and wondering what else Nintendo might have planned for release. Coming in Zelda’s 40th anniversary year, I’m expecting a tempting Limited Edition with a Steelbook, an artbook, a Triforce paperweight – something…

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Handheld gaming PCs are cooked

(Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been: Inducting my daughter into a life of crime in Magical Princess, and constructing cozily cluttered dioramas in Shanty Town—two games I’m confident would also be fantastic on a handheld. The idea of taking serious hardware horsepower on the go was always the dream of my misspent, console-gaming youth….

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After 17 years, a developer has finally revived the dream of Hannah Montana Linux, an open source operating system themed around Hannah Montana

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, Linux-based gaming just got a massive shot in the arm thanks to developer Noah Cagle. That’s right, baby: Hannah Montana Linux is back. Ok, maybe less a “shot in the arm” and more a “completely neutral development”—more on that in a second—but HML is a fully fledged OS capable of…

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Mortal Shell 2 is the latest game to join the Grand Theft Auto 6 release crush, but I don’t think it has much to worry about because it looks sick as hell

Mortal Shell 2 finally has a release date, and it’s arriving sooner than you might think. Like so many other games releasing this year, Cold Symmetry is getting ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6‘s attention tidal wave blocking out November’s horizon, and will launch at the tail end of August. That makes the August-October release…

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After Space Marine 2 ‘literally changed everything’, Saber Interactive has been inundated with offers from major licenses: ‘We are in a very fortunate position to turn down more than we can accept’

It’s a miserable time in the upper echelons of game development right now, but in the midst of all the layoffs, cancelled games, and legendary studios being horribly and inexplicably gutted, one company at least is riding high—Saber Interactive. Previously known for vehicle simulators and middling action games like World War Z, Saber found itself…

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