Required to access certain online features. Ahead of the release of Star Fox on the Switch 2 next month, Nintendo’s Japanese website has revealed an update will be required to unlock certain features. As spotted by Nintendo Everything, the update will allow you to participate in the online Battle Mode, which supports 4-vs-4 multiplayer dogfights…
Destiny 2 is over. Marathon is great but not doing numbers. What is FPS institution Bungie to do? According to our very attractive and informed readers, whom we love and value in a normal way, it’s Destiny 3 by a country mile. I included a poll on the matter in our story a few days…
Earlier this month, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter altered its guidelines with regard to adult content. Where before it only prohibited “pornographic” and illegal content, it changed to be more restrictive and almost comically detailed, banning everything from “implied sex acts” to “MILF/DILF” content. Tuesday, the company reverted this change, saying—you guessed it—it was under pressure from…
We’ve been going back through the PC Gamer vault looking for stories to revisit, reassess, or just have an honest “weren’t we naive?” chuckle about, and few have ticked all three boxes as much as our February 2012 “Armchair Designer” column, “Ten things we want to see in Elder Scrolls 6.” It was a scant…
Hiroshi Iuchi has also left the company. M2 has revealed that Hiroshi Iuchi’s Ikaruga spiritual successor, Ubusuna, has been cancelled. First announced all the way back in 2014, very little has been shown about the game. Read the full article on timeextension.com Hiroshi Iuchi has also left the company. M2 has revealed that Hiroshi Iuchi’s…
Diablo continues to be a huge deal, and I’m not just talking about the latest entry, even if it is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game ever. Millions of people went straight back to Diablo 3, and as the series’ lead producer Matthew Cederquist told Polygon in a recent interview, Diablo’s 26-year-old sophomore release is still surprisingly active….
Dungeon Master 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. It’s 4 am and I am sitting in front of my PC, the monitor perched on a…
I love Wingspan, a birding-themed board game with a humdinger of a digital adaptation, but the hardest part about pitching it to board game skeptics is that they’re rarely tantalized by the theme. “Why would I play a game about identifying God’s most illustrious creations,” they whinge. “I want to play games about exciting things,…
More than team fights, more than shrewd theorycrafting, and more than map awareness, MOBAs are ultimately games about scaling: get more money than the other guys, and once you’ve got a power spike to leverage, dunk on them as hard as you can. That means the hardest part of these games is catching up. Each…
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. Terminally…