Seasoned FromSoftware investigator Lance McDonald has shared a recently uncovered early internal showcase of Demon’s Souls, FromSoft’s crucial pivot point between King’s Field and Dark Souls, and the progenitor of its own subgenre. The demonstration consists of a PowerPoint presentation deck and early gameplay trailer. It was shown at “Gameshare 4,” an internal Sony event…
Causality Chain is a series at PC Gamer exploring the unlikely links between history, culture, and videogames. And ocassionally hedgehogs. The arc of history curves in mysterious ways. Beloved actor Keanu Reeves—Ted, Neo, John Wick himself—may not be Buddhist, but he does, in fact, owe the existence of one of his blockbuster roles to the…
Mark Darrah was a programmer on the original Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2, along with Neverwinter Nights and Jade Empire, and served as executive producer of the Dragon Age series from Origins through Inquisition before leaving in 2020—and coming back in 2023 to kick in on The Veilguard. He knows a thing or two…
After letting the speculation machine run wild for months, Take-Two announced in June that Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch with an $80 price tag for the basic, missing-some-stuff edition. That’s a lot of money, especially when you consider that most people will feel compelled to lay out the extra $20 for the Ultimate Edition,…
Summary How Chuhai Labs brought the feel of classic on-rails shooters to modern players. The team behind the game breaks it all down. All-star voice cast including Jonah Scott, Suzie Yeung, Edward Bosco, and Daman Mills. When we set out to make Wild Blue Skies, we knew exactly what we were taking on. The on-rails…
During Take-Two’s latest earnings call, CEO Strauss Zelnick said the current computing hardware crisis—you know, the one that’s making it more economical to fly roundtrip from the UK to buy an MSRP GPU at Nvidia’s QuakeCon booth than it is to buy one anywhere online—is, to quote the man directly, “not a good thing.” But…
The 2026 instalment of the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase took place today, offering gamers first and fresh looks at many upcoming titles. During the showcase, we released the highly anticipated, first chapter in the REANIMAL DLC campaign and kicked off the pre-order campaign for Way of the Hunter 2! In addition, we showed off new…
Fantastic new puzzle game Big Walk drew some early complaints over the volume of its proximity voice chat, which was too quiet for some players and mic setups, and developer House House has now released a patch that it hopes will resolve the issue while respecting the spirit of the game. The studio has a…
It seems that the government of Japan is not happy with the US government’s habit of using images from Japanese videogames in its political rhetoric, which has included racist, war-mongering social media posts. A Mainichi Shimbun report (Google translated, via IGN) says Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has “repeatedly expressed concerns” about the use of…
[1] Summary Arcade-style shooter pitting you against dinosaurs and horrors.. Tips for maximizing destruction in solo or two-player co-op. A look at the semi-procedurally generated Mutation Matrix game mode remixing enemies, weapons, and more. Well hello there fellow dino-wranglers! I’m Julia Wolbach, and I’m here to share the exciting news about Tailbreak launching on XBOX…