The next update arrives next week. In case you missed it, Atlus is celebrating Persona‘s 30th anniversary this year, and to get the party underway, it’s now opened a special website. The Persona 30th Anniversary Portal includes an original illustration from character designer Sigenori Soejima, showing off the faces of the franchise. Apart from this,…
Will your design feature in the game!? When Capcom lifted the lid on Mega Man: Dual Override at the end of last year, it also announced a Robot Master Design Contest. This competition asked fans to submit a unique design for a Robot Master with a “giant suction arm” and provided an existing template to…
It’s not uncommon for Resident Evil games to open with a combat-free intro level—Resident Evil Village has two of them back to back. You play through a domestic scene at home and then walk through the night to the village where all the monster-murder finally kicks in. They’re characterful ways to begin a horror game,…
Dragon questing since 1986. 2026 is a big year for video game anniversaries, and one of the many celebrations already getting underway is for the Dragon Quest series. This year, the long-running role-playing series will turn 40 years old. To kick things off, Square Enix and its official Dragon Quest social accounts have now shared…
There are no squeaky-clean factions in Fallout: New Vegas. Caesar’s Legion is outright authoritarian and psychopathic, Mr. House‘s ruthlessness and egomania make him hard to trust, and while the New California Republic is comparatively easier to live with, it’s far from heroic. As lead writer John Gonzales told PC Gamer in an interview with associate…
Artist Deimos’ Fallout: New Vegas-inspired work is so good, it’s been highlighted by the game’s director, Josh Sawyer, as well as actor Danny Trejo, who voiced ghoul vaquero Raul Alfonso Tejada and seems to have taken a special shine to how Deimos portrayed the gunslinger’s early exploits in Mexico. I’m not a huge fan art…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jeff Lee, who is displayed on card number 2119, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Jeff is also featured on trading card 2374. Jeff is an extraordinary talented artist in the video game community, most known of course, as designing the character Q*bert. Other arcade games on which he has displayed…
Valve’s publicly voted Steam Awards are announced early in the New Year, which is the most sensible time to announce annual awards while also guaranteeing hardly anybody actually cares about them. If you’re not sick of hearing about how much other people like Clair Obscur by January, you must have the patience of a saint….
Tim Cain, designer and lead programmer on the original Fallout, hears a particular sort of question a lot these days—why not make a new, original RPG? Better yet, why not return to Fallout or make a sequel to one of his other classic games like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura or Temple of Elemental…
The boomer shooter renaissance continues to ferment and flourish with great new games each year, and a particular highlight of last year was Cultic. PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield called it “one of the best shooters of 2025” that, even among the Dusks and Turbo Overkills of the world, “distinguishes itself by executing everything…