Bryce Clark, game director of Poppy Playtime, has played 23,000 hours of Steam games: ‘I’m a bit obsessed with learning the market’

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?” Bryce Clark, game director on Poppy Playtime,…

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Dishonored review (2012)

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Dishonored review – PC Gamer issue #246 (UK, December 2012) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation. By Tom Francis (Image credit: Bethesda) I think I can jump onto another light fitting from here….

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This gorgeous and ambitious Grand Theft Auto 4 total conversion swaps Liberty City for a Fargo-style slice of rural Wisconsin, featuring backroads and a pizza delivery job gone wrong

It’s quiet, save for the faint pings of a street light shifting ever so slightly in the wind down the street. So quiet, in fact, you’d be forgiven for forgetting this is Grand Theft Auto 4. What’s before you better resembles Fargo. It flies closer to the likes of Twin Peaks, reimagined in video games…

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CD Projekt Red boss believes some fans were forever burned by Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch: ‘I’m convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely’

The infamous launch of Cyberpunk 2077 was a low point in CD Projekt Red’s history. With hype levels at critical mass, the RPG released in a buggy, unoptimised, and downright unfinished state that was so bad the PS4 version of the game was pulled from the PlayStation store. The company’s share price tanked, investors filed…

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