Baldur’s Gate 3 is pretty great right out of the box, but it could be argued that its second act lacks some variety. If you aren’t endlessly dazzled by shadowy forests and J.K. Simmons, you might have wished you could hang out after the family drama in the Shadow-Cursed Lands is sorted and explore some…
In an interview first published in Edge Magazine issue 428 and shared online via its Knowledge newsletter, former Tencent Games business development director and inaugural Game Awards Game Changer Amir Satvat offered his take on why the now-yearslong games industry layoff crisis has been so uneven in its geographic distribution. There’s been a lot of…
Base unit, Remix, Element Modules and controllers all increase in cost. The ongoing RAMpocalypse has claimed another victim in the form of Polymega, the modular retro gaming system developed by Playmaji. In a new statement, the company said prices for nearly every piece of Polymega-related hardware are going up. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
Resident Mega Dogma Wilds. TGS 2026 is in full swing right now, and we’ve been able to go hands-on with a bunch of upcoming Switch 2 games, including a selection from every outlet’s Publisher of the Year*. The show is running from Thursday 17th to Monday 21st September (although an approaching typhoon has led the…
In Dec. 2023, The New York Times filed one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in recent memory against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that its AI models heisted ludicrous amounts of journalistic work from the Times. Two days ago, a court filing (hosted and analyzed by Ars Technica) was newly unsealed with all sorts of revealing…
Back to the roots. There are just nine weeks to go before The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives on Switch 2, and you better believe that the countdown has well and truly started for me. While scanning the calendar earlier this week, it suddenly dawned on me that the time left until launch…
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, Rick and Ted have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in…
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. I’ve…
A lamentable fact of our hobby is this: time marches on. Because our games have to be rendered in real-time by whatever tech we load them onto, they inevitably end up harder to run as the years wear on, and the gap grows between the tech we have and the tech the games were designed…
Thief: The Dark Project is one of my favourite games of all time, so naturally I am very excited for Nightdive Studios’ upcoming remaster. But it’s worth remembering that the community has done an excellent job supporting the game up until this point. Unofficial patches like NewDark have ensured that Looking Glass’ landmark stealth game…