A good retro collection used to start with a console, a box of cartridges and a shelf that could still bear weight. Now some collectors want the whole machine: the painted cabinet, the coin door, the reel glass, the original buttons and the odd smell of old wiring after it warms up. That has pushed…
Last month at the PC Gaming Show we got to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at Total War: Warhammer 40,000 including glimpses of a battle between the Astra Militarum and orks. The video above, revealed at BiliBili World, is a more detailed look at the same battle in the Armageddon Theatre campaign, and looks sick…
As reported by WCCFtech, the Dutch consumer organization Stichting Massaschade & Consument now believes it has an even stronger case in its €400 million ($457 million) lawsuit against Sony over the 30% rate it charges on every game sold through the PlayStation Store, a “Sony tax” that retail games are not subject to—the same retail…
First spotted by Kotaku, prolific director Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Interstellar) recently gave his takes on AI in filmmaking and the explosive success of Backrooms in an interview with The Telegraph (readers may encounter a paywall). The interview comes as part of the lead up to Nolan’s next film, an adaptation of the Homeric epic, the…
From the archives: This feature was originally published in PC Gamer #302 (UK, March 2017). You can still subscribe to PC Gamer to get new issues of the magazine (in print!) every month. My playthrough of the first game was more disaster than Dishonored. At the time, I didn’t quite grasp that slitting every throat…
Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure! Evercade price hike! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A…
As reported by Massively OP, senior developers at ZeniMax Online Studios said that the company has returned to its circa 2015-2018 headcount, before it staffed up for the development of canceled MMO Blackbird. The estimate is similar to one recently proffered by id Software in a statement on X, “The Everything App.” Unofficial Elder Scrolls…
If you enjoyed Taito’s Bubble Bobble in the Arcades or at home, then you’ll be pleased to know that not only can you still download Dave Retro Forge’s graphically superior version of ‘Bubble Bobble Remastered’ for the C64, or ‘Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave’, which is a true spiritual sequel to that classic arcade game. But as…
We’re officially seven months into 2026. First of all, what the hell? I don’t know about you, but it feels like this year has absolutely whizzed by despite… not a whole lot happening. Apart from, y’know, an insane number of layoffs and the industry slowly crumbling while a giant GTA 6-shaped asteroid slowly approaches. Critical…
In case you haven’t heard, Sony recently announced that it will stop producing physical game discs come 2028—a move PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon argued continues a trend of consoles turning into little more than worse PCs. But Daniel Ahmad, a videogame market analyst and director of research and insights at Niko Partners, argued in a…