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. The…
The recent trend of announcing new expansions for older games—most notably Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3—makes total sense when you look at the long tail on some of yesterday’s classics. Beloved games now have a tendency to stick around for so long that new blockbusters are fighting for their lives against perennial…
“I absolutely love Luigi’s Mansion!”. We’ve all experienced a game-induced argument over the years, and for most of us here at Nintendo Life Towers, Ghost Town Games is to thank. This is the developer that brought us Overcooked and subsequently awakened a Michelin-star chef in each of us, barking out orders at our friends and…
Earlier this week, Xbox laid off 268 people on top of the 1,600 jobs it cut earlier this year. It has shoved Obsidian into Bethesda, handed Halo to Activision, said Sayonara to Double Fine and Compulsion Games, and State of Decay developer Undead Labs, and is primed to close Hellblade developer Ninja Theory. All of…
I picked up sewing as a hobby in college and, in my youthful cockiness, skipped the pillowcase-and-curtain phase. Instead, I dove right into extravagant cosplay and Renaissance dresses, and most of my first attempts were not fit for the human body. I’m sure some of that hubris came from watching my grandmother make sewing look…
One of the most striking early sequences in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is its Chimera Tank boss fight, in which V and President Myers battle an enormous, Ghost in the Shell-inspired spider-tank in the bowels of a Barghest facility. The battle forms the explosive culmination of Phantom Liberty’s opening act, and CD Projekt recently revealed…
What is a man?! Gaming franchises really don’t get much more iconic than Castlevania. First launched as Akumajō Dracula for the humble NES on 26th September 1986, the series has now turned 40 years old. And despite a few ups and downs (it really felt like it was dead and buried for a while there,…
I wasn’t expecting to see a Starfield sequel any time soon, given it took Bethesda eight years to make its sci-fi RPG and the studio is currently focussed on The Elder Scrolls 6. But if the words of Starfield’s former systems designer are anything to go by, we may not see a sequel to Bethesda’s…
Hyrule beckons. Well folks, you made it through another week – well done! It’s felt like a bit of a heavy one, with some world leaders shouting at each other, others hosting absurdly lavish dinner parties, and lots more discourse around AI, as always. Good job we’ve got games, eh? Read the full article on…
I’ll make this quick: Whatever you had planned for the weekend, you’ve got to carve four-and-a-half hours out for a last-minute swerve into the late ’90s. Six months in the making, YouTube essayist Majuular is back with the (I believe) penultimate video in his multi-year Ultima series. “This one was a doozy,” he wrote in…