Long before daily rewards and mobile notifications defined casual gaming, a deck of digital cards showed millions of people that a computer could be a place to relax. Solitaire asked for no manual and no gaming identity. The table explained itself. A modern browser version such as PlaySolitaire preserves that same invitation: open the game,…
Star Wars Galaxies Legends, one of many community servers offering a version of the defunct MMO with custom additions, reportedly had its assets decrypted by a hacker with the username levarrishawk (via Massively OP). In a post on the Star Wars Galaxies subreddit, Levarris confirmed the details of a Discord post shared by the server’s…
Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. This week, Associate Editor Ted Litchfield has subbed in to trade iron short swords and goblins for blaster rifles and clone troopers When I first tried Star…
When Total War: Warhammer first debuted, I was much more into the wargame setting’s sci-fi counterpart. This would be cool if Space Marines were in it, I remember thinking, somehow unaware that Total War: Warhammer would end up being one of the best strategy games on PC. Not that my theory was wrong: Space Marines…
There are big-budget blockbusters, and then there’s GTA 6. If you want any sense of just how big this thing is, look no further than a recent interview Rockstar North co-head Aaron Garbut gave The New York Times (via Techradar). In it, he said the studio dedicated an entire new team solely to making NPCs….
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
You might think making one of the most influential games of this century would be a source of unending happiness for its creator. But for Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall, founder of RocketWerkz, the relationship with his most famous creation isn’t that simple. “When DayZ happened, it was like dying,” says Hall of the mod which, alongside…
Retro gaming is just regular gaming to a sick, twisted mind like mine (and that of everyone I know, since we spend all our time playing old crap). But what makes something retro in the first place? Is it bits? Console generation? The size and contents of the box it came in, assuming it came…
Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch 1 & 2 in August. August is nearly over, so it’s time to look back over the last few weeks and crown three of the Switch eShop games we’ve reviewed this month. We’ve got eight games that met our 7/10 criteria for our monthly showdown: Switch…
The observation that building a PC enjoys a similar appeal to clicking Lego bricks together is far from an original thought; when handed a big ol’ box of PC case faceplates, side panels, and internal brackets, few could resist having a play. So, when I was left unattended with a box o’ bits for the…