GameCenter CX’s “Chief” Shinya Arino cast the final vote. Deciding what actually constitutes “retro” in the world of gaming is a tricky topic — one that inevitably ends up provoking a lot of debate among people online. For some people, the concept of retro gaming will always be fixed, referring to a very specific period…
Down, boy. Ahead of a planned release later this year, Shift Up has provided a fresh look at Stellar Blade: Complete Edition on the Switch 2. The trailer itself is age-restricted, but go ahead and hop on over to YouTube to view it. Showcasing some kick-ass gameplay, the visuals on Nintendo’s console look pretty great…
“This project has been a long time coming, and has not been without difficulty.”. Over 31 years after its original release, an English fan translation patch has been released for Winkysoft and Banpresto’s Super Famicom strategy RPG Dai 4 Ji Sūpā Robotto Taisen (otherwise known as Super Robot Wars 4). Just to give you some…
It’s great that the Nightdive’s remasters of various classic games give new players a chance to experience them without having to download a fixpack or remap the controls or whatever, but it’s also a wonderful opportunity to learn new things about games we already loved. Each remaster is like an archaeological dig and you never…
It’s just a box with a download code, according to VGP. If you’re wondering how exactly Activision will distribute the retail version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on the Switch 2, some new information has surfaced via social media. This update comes from Video Games Plus. According to the North American physical video…
Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since…
Last week, the Communications Workers of America and the Bethesda Game Studios OneBGS union took part in the Save Our Devs rally across the United States and Canada (and on Twitch) “to call out layoffs and corporate greed across the industry and to demand fair first contracts across Microsoft’s gaming studios.” Speaking to Kotaku, Bethesda…
Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. Last month, Final Fantasy 10 turned 25 years old—a fact that has utterly shaken my perception of…
EverQuest Legends, the EverQuest spinoff that remixes an old-school version of the early MMORPG into a multiclassing, froglok-murdering ARPG minmaxer’s paradise, has a lot on the way. In a recent Twitch stream, developers from Daybreak Games and Game Jawn floated some pretty big ideas for the future: perhaps most notably, all-new classes that weren’t in…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Ray Chase’s first encounter with PC gaming…