This wildly ambitious modpack transforms the third-person, N64 exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour into a ‘jank ’90s FPS’ for your PC

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I wish I could play the third person, Nintendo 64-exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, but on my PC and in first person”? What’s that? You don’t think anybody has thought that before in the history of humankind? Well, I can assure you that at least four people have,…

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How many videogame movie adaptations can you name? And, more importantly, can you remember actually liking any of them?

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. I don’t know what compels me to keep forcing you all to confront the ugly history of videogame movies in…

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HEIANKYO ALIEN – by Jeremy Parish

Gaming historians often write about popular media in the pre-internet age as if it all existed in vacuum-sealed silos by country, but that’s not true at all. Intercontinental communication may have been a lot more complicated back then, but consider Heiankyo Alien, a minor 1970s video game hit in Japan that demonstrated how Western and…

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A character model datamined from Grand Theft Auto 5’s source code ‘could actually be Agent’s protagonist’, according to online sleuth

Rockstar Games’ cancelled open world game Agent is one of the more mysterious elements of the Grand Theft Auto 6 developer’s history. Originally revealed back in 2007, Agent was a relatively high-profile project for years, but never showed much beyond the odd bit of concept art, eventually vanishing from Rockstar’s website in 2021. More information…

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This ‘highly realistic’ city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade

Steam is flooded with all manner of weird and wonderful city-builders these days. Yet few of these newer games have laid their foundations in the true heartland of the genre. If you want to build a vast, modern cityscape with intensely simulated traffic and three types of zoning, you’re pretty much stuck with Cities: Skylines…

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