With this week’s theatrical release of A24’s The Backrooms adaptation, I was expecting an avalanche of new Backrooms-themed videogames to appear on Steam. Surprisingly, the number is quite modest: a mere four! Surely you’ve noticed that Backrooms games have been releasing at a steady clip on Steam for years now. When I search Backrooms on…
Infinity Ward has once again promised that it will keep its skins and cosmetics thematic and grounded in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a commitment that it has repeatedly asserted as part of the rollout for this anticipated return of Infinity Ward CoD. The promise came as part of an exchange on X, The…
“This might be a daft idea”. Super Play was one of the greatest SNES-focused magazines to come out of the 1990s, and its main artist has just reimagined what the debut issue’s cover might have looked like had it been published today. Published by Future and spanning 47 issues (plus a special one-off 48th edition…
I’ve written before about just how much I love Grand Theft Auto’s radio stations. Rockstar has an incredible knack for musical curation, and there’s nary been a track in those games that I haven’t vibed with. Hell, I’ve spent most of my life as a raging emo in England and I absolutely loved the country-bumpkin-as-hell…
Star Fox, Final Fantasy and more! 2026 is really heating up now that we’ve reached the halfway mark, and June is already looking like an exciting month on the Nintendo front with all sorts of releases. To get the month started, Square Enix is releasing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the Switch 2 and then…
Disk Cleanup 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?” Publishers of the ’90s loved a boxed video game collection,…
Last week, Star Citizen surpassed $1 billion in player funding, an eye-popping milestone that inevitably raised all the same questions about Cloud Imperium Games’ wildly ambitious space MMO. Is it a scam? (no). Is it playable (yes). When will it be finished? (no idea). What’s the situation with its single-player component, Squadron 42? The last…
“Guy who leaves negative Steam review after ungodly hour count” is truly one of the strongest soldiers in modern gaming. They scare me. It’s a practice that speaks of obsession, but also a level of expertise and familiarity you just can’t fake: What do you say to someone who knows your game that well, and…
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: James Bond: Blood Stone review – PC Gamer issue #210 (US, February 2011) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and newly taken screenshots. By Tyler Wilde (Image credit: Activision, Steam user Sir Keyboard of Virtue)…
Imagine spending months on a project, meticulously sewing and hand-crafting fine details onto fabric, or hot glueing accessories onto a foam weapon you’ve poured hours into, only for the big day to finally arrive and parts immediately pop off or stitches to break in motion. I can only imagine the absolute heartbreak of feeling like…