Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: making friends with every raider over a mutual hunt for lemons in Arc Raiders. This week I’ve been: continuing to team up with players in Arc Raiders, and blasting the mean ones. As much as I love the nail-biting tension of extraction shooters, it’s…
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. If you’re reading this website, you almost certainly use Steam. In fact, I’ll go one further: you probably use it…
2022 wasn’t exactly a banner year for first-person shooters, but it did bring us Hyper Demon. Like its predecessor Devil Daggers, Hyper Demon boasted a trippy art-style and emphasised fast-paced, high-challenge shooting, but its emphasis was less about survival and more about being an aggressive killing machine a-la Doom Eternal. The result utterly entranced Sam…
Imagine how awkward it would be to end up trapped in a lift with Starship Troopers: Extermination and Helldivers 2, what with the latter taking the themes and ideas behind the former’s licence and implementing them in a way that massively stole Extermination’s thunder. Sure, Helldivers 2 deserves its success, but Extermination’s developer, Offworld, must…
Part 1 launches alongside Update 1.3.0. Civilization VII has received multiple updates since it launched earlier this year and alongside Update 1.3.0, Firaxis Games has now released the Tides of Power Collection. This is “free to claim” on the Switch and Switch 2 eShop until 5th January 2026 and is “yours to keep permanently at…
Every game is a roguelike now. And if it isn’t a roguelike, then it’s a roguelite. The beat ’em up is a roguelike. The FPS is a roguelike. Poker is a roguelike. Breakout is a roguelike. Even the flippin’ city-builder is a roguelike. It’s overwhelming. They’re all around us, man. They’re coming out of the…
Originally released in 2020, The Falconeer is an aerial combat RPG about piloting enormous predatory birds through the skies of a crumbling oceanic empire. It was warmly received on release, nominated for a BAFTA and earning a respectable score of 78 in our The Falconeer Review. But developer Tomas Sala wasn’t satisfied with the end…
Hyrule? No, you rule! The weekend is finally upon us, and we’re ready to play some games… once we’ve recapped this week’s big news, of course! In the absence of a major Animal Crossing announcement, this week felt a little quieter than last, but there was still plenty to get excited about. The Pokémon Legends:…
Patching the garden. Since the arrival of Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted on the Switch and Switch 2 in October, PopCap Games has been rolling out regular updates. Following the 1.2 patch towards the end of last month, the team has now released a few more update. Below are both sets of patch notes, with PopCap…
Graceful and spellbinding. Good Smile Company has announced it will be bolstering its Fire Emblem: Three Houses collection with a new Byleth Dancer scale figure. Read the full article on nintendolife.com