Did Silksong kill the metroidvania? At least two high quality “search action” platformers released on Steam last week, but you might have struggled to learn about them amid the buzz around Subnautica 2, and the clamouring to find a new angle on Mixtape. One is Shattered Divinities, an interesting Chinese-developed fantasy outing. The other is…

Whenever I remember I have 80 hours logged in Terraria, I’m a little shocked because it doesn’t feel like I put nearly that much time into it. Turns out, those are rookie numbers anyway—in a blog post published yesterday, developer Re-Logic shared a bunch of stats and revealed that the average PC player’s logged time…

Directive 8020 starts aboard the spaceship Cassiopeia, where you join a group of scientists venturing to the exoplanet Tau Ceti f. Tasked with setting up the next intergalactic colony, all these scientists are meant to do is take a look at the new planet and figure out how safe it is for the colonists following…

Videogame music has been such a huge presence in my life from such a young age that I rarely stop to consider how many people go through life without ever hearing any of it. They probably know the classics (your Tetris, Mario, etc) but forever be oblivious to the incredible scores and vocal pieces that…

Scott Miller first got into PC gaming with the original IBM PC, having been writing games since 1975 for machines like the Wang 2200 and the Commodore PET. “I don’t really know what got me playing games on the IBM PC, I was probably looking at games that were free or whatever on the internet”,…

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Demigod review – PC Gamer issue #201 (UK, June 2009) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation. By Graham Smith Demigod is gloriously bombastic, the introductory cutscene intoning the slight backstory in its best,…

I spend a lot of time looking at the elaborate outfits and intricate cosplays people put together, but it’s got me wondering: what is the easiest character to cosplay? I’ve already shown you the dedication of cosplayers like Kaho Shibyua, the handiwork of Emily White, and the creativity of Cybertsu, all of which have thrown…