Starting on September 30, Minecraft’s least useful ore is getting some long-awaited new crafting recipes. The Copper Age game drop, which was announced back in August, finally got a full reveal and release date during Minecraft Live on Saturday. This update will introduce a slew of new copper items to the game including weapons, tools,…
As reported by GamesRadar, Supergiant Games co-founder and studio director Amir Rao recently spoke to Haelian on YouTube about where the studio was at with next steps now that Hades 2 has left early access—you can read our (very positive) review here. Basically? They don’t know yet. Caveating that he knew Rao likely couldn’t comment…
It’s all thanks to Nintendo. If you’ve used a controller in the past few decades, you’ll be familiar with the tried-and-true A, B, X, and Y button setup. This arrangement has been used on the SNES, Dreamcast, Xbox, and Steam Deck and is considered by pretty much everyone to be the de facto standard for…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column 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…
Every Wednesday from 4th to 8th grade there was no school period I enjoyed and looked forward to more than the hour we got to spend in my school’s computer lab. Not only was it a welcome change of pace from the often boring classroom lecture we had to sit through the other 97% of…
I was already beginning to suspect that I am, in fact, a robot, given my historic ineptitude when it comes to filling out reCAPTCHAS. It’s the ones where you need to click all the squares of a bicycle or whatever that catch me out. There’s always one tiny bit of wheel or handlebar that the…
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. Over the course of its 30 years in the industry, BioWare has developed some of the best and most memorable…
Fans of The Witcher 3 may have fallen in love with Gwent when CD Projekt’s masterful RPG launched in 2015, but I personally lamented the loss of the original minigame from the series—Dice Poker. I always thought Gwent was too much of a commitment for a minigame contained within a 300-hour RPG, and preferred the…
It’s been four years since Fights in Tight Spaces grabbed turn-based tactics by the collar and beat it about the head with a stack of collectible cards, so the fact that it’s getting an expansion this far out was a surprise in and of itself. That this DLC primarily adds a dog to help you…
FBC: Firebreak was a bit of a disappointment when it released back in June. There was certainly potential in running around playing janitor within the brutalist interdimensional nexus known as The Oldest House. But Remedy’s cooperative shooter simply didn’t feel ready for action, as I discovered in my FBC: Firebreak review. It was too lean,…