The ’90s were a great time to be a PC gamer, especially if you go in for weird shit. Some truly bizarre experiments emerged from the era, most of which I never got to play but faintly remember reading about in magazines. Whether it’s the pomo ultraviolence of Harvester, the sickly roach simulator Bad Mojo,…
I played the first act of Baldur’s Gate 3 a few times in early access, which is why I’m always slightly surprised on subsequent playthroughs that there aren’t a bunch of mind-controlled anglers protecting the dying mind flayer you encounter near the start of the game. They were cut in the final release, along with…
To hell with these bugs. Since the launch of the Switch 2, Nintendo and developers have been working to make as many Switch games as possible compatible with the new system. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. In the 1980s and early 1990s if you wanted a videogame with a decently written story, adventure games were the…
Warning: Spoilers for absolutely everything in Fallout Season 2 Episode 7! It’s easy to hate on Overseer Steph of Vault 32, but hey, she’s been through a lot. Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 kicks off with a Steph flashback set 200 years ago when she was a Canadian citizen sent to an internment camp by…
Warning: Spoilers for absolutely everything in Fallout Season 2 Episode 7! It’s easy to hate on Overseer Steph of Vault 32, but hey, she’s been through a lot. Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 kicks off with a Steph flashback set 200 years ago when she was a Canadian citizen sent to an internment camp by…
The full game launches this March. Koei Tecmo has today released an overview trailer of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE. As part of this, it’s announced a few extra things. Before it launches on the Switch 2 on 12th March, players can expect a demo on 5th March. There are no details about the…
On Monday, a team of fan translators celebrated the birth of the visual novel with an English patch for 1996’s Japanese PC-98 game Shizuku. In the mid-90s, recently established development studio Leaf—which at that point had only made a strip mahjong game and an adult JRPG—launched a “Visual Novel Series” of three adult games, beginning…
Terraria is one of those PC gaming mainstays whose death will probably only come about thanks to a global mass extinction event. It just received a major new update in the form of Terraria 1.4.5, which was announced in 2022 and scheduled to release in 2023. But, as is usually the case with Terraria updates,…
What are you doing over there in that survival game? Picking up rocks and gathering twigs, chopping down trees and collecting berries, all so you can… what? Build a little house that doesn’t move and live inside it? Get with the program! This year the survival genre is ditching those sad wooden huts in favor…