Coins, Cards, and the Long Road to Cashless Arcades The Strong National Museum of Play holds Atari’s Coin-Op Division corporate records, a collection that documents the design, production, and marketing of nearly every Atari coin-operated game from Pong in 1972 through San Francisco Rush 2049 in 1999. Somewhere between those bins of quarters and…
On this episode of the Official XBOX Podcast, we’re joining the excitement and sitting down with the team behind Minecraft Dungeons II. We’re finding out what’s new, what’s different, and what we can expect when we first step foot into Minecraft’s newest dimension, the Sift. TRANSCRIPT SPEAKER 1: Games in this podcast range from E…
Summary The Sift is Minecraft’s first new dimension in over 14 years. It will be introduced in Minecraft Dungeons II, launching September 29. The Sift will become part of Minecraft in 2027. We’ve visited the Overworld, the Nether, and the End. Now, prepare yourself for a journey to the Sift. First announced at Gamescom and…
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Cavern club. We are one week closer to the 5th November launch of Ocarina of Time on Switch 2, so that means it’s time for my second replay catch-up. For those who missed my adventures Inside the Great Deku Tree last week, I’m replaying the original OoT, one dungeon each week, in the run-up to…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. CRPGs like Disco Elysium, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Esoteric Ebb love to get weird,…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. The…
The recent trend of announcing new expansions for older games—most notably Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3—makes total sense when you look at the long tail on some of yesterday’s classics. Beloved games now have a tendency to stick around for so long that new blockbusters are fighting for their lives against perennial…
“I absolutely love Luigi’s Mansion!”. We’ve all experienced a game-induced argument over the years, and for most of us here at Nintendo Life Towers, Ghost Town Games is to thank. This is the developer that brought us Overcooked and subsequently awakened a Michelin-star chef in each of us, barking out orders at our friends and…