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This game about being a chaotic mage might be the best indie immersive sim you can play, as I learned after destroying a mime’s house with magnetism

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature 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…

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I’ve been pixelating things again for our latest quiz—this time you have to guess which 10 videogame characters I’ve mangled

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. Well, you all seemed to take last week’s pixelated nightmare of a quiz in your stride—lots of high marks all…

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MercurySteam announces ‘difficult and painful’ job cuts as its God of War-inspired hack ‘n’ slash arrives on Steam

MercurySteam, the developer behind Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and the Switch exclusive Metroid Dread, has announced layoffs in the same week its latest game Blades of Fire launches on Steam. “There’s no easy way to share this kind of news, but today we must communicate that MercurySteam has initiated a workforce adjustment process,” the studio…

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Review: Dbrand Switch 2 Joy-Lock Controller Holder – “Even More Comfortable” Than Nintendo’s Pro Pad? Let’s See

Joys and Cons. Canadian peripherals company Dbrand has built its brand around an irreverent, sarcastic social media presence that’s landed it in hot water on several occasions. But despite multiple missteps and apologies in recent years, it’s still producing quality skins and accessories for consumer tech – and still raising eyebrows with its marketing. The…

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