PC Gamer has been around for a long time now, and boy do we have the magazine archive to show for it. When you start sifting through the pile, some years stand out for their historical leaps in technology or gauntlet of big releases—looking at you, Baldur’s Gate 3 summer—and then there’s 2011. A lot…
Overwatch, one of the pioneers of the live service model, has finally come full circle with an official Fortnite collab this week. For years, Blizzard kept its iconic heroes close to its chest, but now they’ve been released, free to show up as premium cosmetics elsewhere in the live service multiverse. It already felt like…
For a game series that revels in realizing the obscure and ephemeral pieces of the Warhammer Fantasy setting as in-game units, Total War: Warhammer has left the interests of one specific player segment unfulfilled: the furries. As countless intersecting player subcultures are no doubt celebrating, that changes next week when giant tiger people become playable…
Party Animals developer Recreate Games has apologized for an “AI video contest” it announced earlier this week that encouraged players to submit short films created with generative AI tools. It’s not cancelling the contest, though—instead, it’s opened a poll asking followers what it should do. Recreate first announced the contest on May 13, telling followers…
Modders sure work fast, huh? Subnautica 2 has only just launched into early access and already there are mods for it, including a couple that a lot of players will be keenly interested in. If you were wondering if Subnautica 2 had a debug console like the original game, it doesn’t—at least not officially. However,…
Video games have made enormous progress since the first titles rolled out decades ago. Early games like Pong, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man were built on simple mechanics: move, shoot, avoid. There was no inventory to manage, no team to coordinate, no map to study. Today, players need to train for the games they love, plan…
“This guy hasn’t seen death in the way that an older Bond has”. Ever since 007 First Light‘s take on James Bond was revealed, fans of the spy have shared a wide range of opinions. It’s safe to say this younger take on the character has stirred up some feelings. But developer IO Interactive expected…
Moss and Moss: Book II are being packaged together. If you own a PSVR headset, chances are you’ve played Moss and/or Moss: Book II. These adorable puzzle platform games are two of the best games available on PSVR (or even just VR in general), but until now, if you didn’t own a headset, you couldn’t…
The newly launched content creation platform S&box has 7,693 Steam reviews and they are decidedly “Mixed,” though it definitely has its defenders. Facepunch co-founder and creator of Garry’s Mod Garry Newman has now directly addressed the situation on the studio’s blog, beginning by acknowledging that “our Steam reviews obviously aren’t great. They’re painful for us….
Gathering metals and minerals and other crafting materials in Subnautica 2 got me thinking about how weird it is that so many useful things exist in the real world. Like, isn’t it odd that something as good as metal exists? And fiber! Where would we be without rope? Certainly not playing Subnautica 2 on a…