Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Rick and Ted have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in…
There are many scenes from Outlast that are burned into my memory, The Groom’s sequence in Outlast’s Whistleblower DLC, the finger amputation from the first game, or perhaps it was landing on a bunch of baby bones in Outlast 2. There’s quite a lot to pick from over two games, a DLC, and the live…
Thus far, Funcom has focussed mainly on changes to its survival MMO Dune: Awakening, with the Norwegian studio reworking the entire game to function as both a solo experience and a PvE adventure. Now that overhaul is done, however, Funcom is now set on expanding players’ adventures on Arrakis, having just announced a free expansion…
Id Software has tightened its relationship with fellow shooter specialists MachineGames according to studio co-director Marty Stratton, after Xbox laid off roughly half of the Doom developer’s employees earlier this year. Stratton was asked how the studio was doing following Xbox’s massive job cuts at a recent press event for Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations…
Dampé my spirits. Would you look at that, we are rapidly closing in on the release date of Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 and the end of my Dungeon Crawl replay of the N64 original. Doesn’t time fly? With the much-discussed Water Temple out of the way, it was my decision where to head…
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. Final…
“Taito would give us money. But the games were never published”. Given that Halloween is upon us, now is the perfect time to examine Japan’s first survival horror, and how it evolved from the first-ever stealth game. Along the way, we’ll also take on the role of Doctor Frankenstein and revive the missing link between…
Anthropic has updated Claude Opus 5.5 to “steer it away” from letting users clone other developers’ games, after weeks of Steam being overrun with AI slop and outcries from the game development community. In an update spotted by X user Chasm (via Game Developer) Anthropic added a new rule to Claude Code’s “Rules”. Listed under…
Yes, Pikmin Day. Surprise! Nintendo had shadow dropped a Nintendo Direct presentation for Pikmin Day. Yes, that’s right, Pikmin day. As of this year, Nintendo is officially referring to 1st November as ‘Pikmin Day’ – three ones like three Pikmin, get it? We don’t, really, but yay! Pikmin! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The Outlast series has been providing horror fans with some of the most grotesque and outrageous scenes for 13 years, and to over 50 million players. The most surprising thing about all of that, though, isn’t how it’s able to keep players terrified, it’s that no one else has tried to capitalise on its success….