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. World…
All the polish, none of the power. I’ve tested dozens of emulation handhelds, and the Retroid Pocket Duo Lite ($149) was by far the hardest to review. It’s been a frustrating ride over the past few weeks — not because it’s bad, but because the hardware is actually good. Until it isn’t. I will admit…
In recent years, triple-A games have often been criticised for overly excessive handholding, overcompensating for a dread fear that the player might become stuck. This has manifested in numerous ways like Atreus’ heavy-handed puzzle hints in God of War: Ragnarok, yellow paint splashed on every other ledge of Stellar Blade, and most recently, Marvel’s Wolverine…
The popular user-added tags for Nivalis Nights on Steam are: Cyberpunk, simulation, life sim, management, and relaxing. It is definitely a cyberpunk shop/life sim, but relaxing? This one was on the wishlists of a lot of cozy gaming fans, including me. After playing it though, I’m not sure it’s the kind of cozy most people…
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…
“I still feel that there is a great deal I need to learn”. One of the biggest mistakes people make about the Japanese games industry is thinking it’s separate from things like anime and toys. The reality is that, at least in mecha-related media, these industries are connected and share the same creative talent. Shinji…
Silent Hill’s resurrection is one of the happier stories to emerge from the games industry in recent years. After spending roughly a decade locked in a Konami cupboard, Silent Hill has received three new entries published by Konami in as many years, all of which arrived to positive reviews and, seemingly, healthy sales. But if…
We loves it, precious! Few games have had as lasting an impact on the overarching gaming space through one mechanic alone as the Nemesis system presented in Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel, Shadow of War. First released in 2014, it’s hard to believe such innovation has been stuck locked away for over a…
Certain ideas that crop up every so often in games will always grab my attention. One of them is letting players defeat enemies with bits of other enemies. As such, my interest in Heathen—an upcoming indie dungeon crawler—went from ‘mildly curious’ to ‘smashing the wishlist button’ when its most recent trailer revealed you can beat…
Here’s a truth no one but I am willing to admit: Mafia 3 was good, actually. Please disregard PC Gamer’s 54% Mafia 3 review. I don’t know what happened there. Possibly Andy Kelly put the wrong game disc in by mistake. I understand they were still using game discs in 2016, alongside gramophones, the telegram,…