The Fridge

WoW developers reflect on Midnight’s first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. World…

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Forget Quake, Worms: The Director’s Cut just got a free expansion for the series’ 30th anniversary

If you’ve checked in on Worms creator Andy Davidson sometime in these past few years, you’ll know he’s been hard at work on Worms: The Director’s Cut 1.5, an unofficial but nonetheless Team 17-approved expansion pack for the original strategy-party mashup’s Amiga-exclusive sequel. The goods have finally arrived: you can download the whole thing for…

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Stop waiting for the Game of Thrones CRPG of your dreams and settle for the pleasant eurojank compromise instead

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, Ted, and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in…

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Blocky zombie survival sim Unturned releases its source code so players can build a ‘lasting legacy’ for the game ‘regardless of the changes we make’

Smartly Dressed Games, developer of the wildly popular free-to-play zombie survival sim Unturned, has released the game’s source code for non-commercial use. “Unturned’s source code and project files are now freely available!” the developers wrote in a Steam post. “Whether you have a new feature or total conversion in mind, the sky’s the limit.” The…

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