Doom can run on so many weird devices now, it’s easier to tally up the things that don’t support id’s 1993 masterpiece. But running a game inside another game always tickles my lizard brain, and Squaresweets on GitHub has delivered: The Ultimate Doom, fully playable within the New Blood FPS Ultrakill. Every level in Ultrakill…
Hytale’s been dropping updates faster than I’ve been able to keep track of, what with the addition of necromancy and flamethrowers, but Hytale’s players are keeping a pretty strong pace too. The game already has a whopping 4,000 mods on CurseForge, and it doesn’t seem like things are slowing down anytime soon. Browsing CurseForge you’ll…
Much like the rest of the internet, I spent an ungodly amount of time playing Peak when it launched in June last year, and despite the simplicity of its character design, me and my friends became quite fond of our little characters quite quickly. You’re only given a few customisation options when you start,but you…
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition’s consistent popularity has proved there’s a big audience for classic RTS action, even as the broader genre struggles to break new ground. Hence, it’s a little surprising to see other grizzled strategy veterans polishing their blades for one last stab at glory. One such example is last year’s Stronghold…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! As you might be sick of hearing me parrot by now: videogames are nothing…
If you’ve ever trundled around on the back of a Warthog in the original Halo, you’ll remember the way its tires seemed to melt into noisy blur as they got going. Turns out, there’s no actual blur effect being applied—the game just swaps out a normal tire texture with one that looks hazy whenever the…
In the most welcome of news, you can now play the original Grand Theft Auto—the 1997 top-down, chaos-in-a-shoebox crime simulator that started it all—on modern PCs and Steam Decks without cursing at your screen and tearing your hair out. As a long-suffering bald man, I’m not sure I can confidently pin my lack of follicle…
Hyrule worriers. What’s next for The Legend of Zelda? It seems to be the big question scratching everyone’s heads this year. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The skating game revival of the last few years has been an unexpected, but welcome surprise. Vicarious Visions’ remaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 heralded a new wave of aspiring skate sims, ranging from the ultra-authentic Session: Skate Sim to the abstract brilliance of Skate Story, with EA’s online playground Skate landing somewhere between…
Terraria‘s long-awaited 1.4.5 update finally arrived in January, digging up a treasure trove of new features like an overhauled crafting interface, a new world seed, updated visuals, crossover items with Palworld and Dead Cells, and a vast array of new objects, mobs, and secrets to discover. It’s gone down a storm with Terraria’ community, but…