Alice in bayou-land. South of Midnight is a third‑person action‑adventure that leans into its narrative hard. For those thinking of buying it, that’s the first thing to consider, because not every gamer has the same ‘high cutscene-to-gameplay ratio’ of patience. While it doesn’t over-indulge, it does like to pause events often to reveal one of…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying out some seriously fast gaming monitors, including a 600 Hz TN panel. My Counter-Strike gaming has never been so buttery smooth. Over the past year, I’ve found myself falling head over heels for a couple of different competitive gaming mice for vastly different…
(Fear Of Price Increase). When the 3.0 update arrived for Animal Crossing: New Horizons in January, covering it for this here website returned me to a place I thought I’d left behind. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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…
It always bugged me that you couldn’t save the scientists in Half-Life. You’d be trundling through some grey corridor in the bowels of Black Mesa, with one or two or maybe even three lab coat wearing boffins behind you, when they’d suddenly stop for no obvious reason, announcing: “This is as far as I go!”…