The MSX Japanese home computer system is largely unfamiliar to US audiences, and mayeven fly under the radar of many retro gaming enthusiasts. Elsewhere, it’s a different story. While unsurprisingly commonplace in its native country and in its neighbor South Korea, the MSX also found footing in South American and European territories. Of the MSX’s…
Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I often think of the times the mainstream dips its toe into our colourful corner of pop…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Harry Krueger didn’t get into PC gaming…
In an email statement to Japanese gaming site Denfaminico Gamer, FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki indicated that the studio has unannounced new projects in the works, while largely demurring from making a comment about recent investor drama at FromSoft’s parent company, Kadokawa. I’ve relied on machine translation to parse Denfaminico’s article and Miyazaki’s email response. The…
Spore is the greatest game that never was. Clear as day, I remember the wonder the pitch instilled in me as a young’un. It was to be a true simulation like The Sims, not just of daily life, but of the history of all life—life as everything from a unicellular amoeba to a spacefaring alien…
Switchy world. Switch 2 has been out for over a year now, and a good percentage of Nintendo Lifers have picked one up in the last 365 days. However, it’s also quite possible you haven’t jumped on Nintendo’s latest console just yet. With Switch 1’s colossal library, not to mention the great games on other…
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. I…
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Cave Story+ review – PC Gamer issue #236 (UK, February 2012) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and newly taken screenshots. By Chris Donlan (Image credit: Studio Pixel, Nicalis) Over on a Cave Story messageboard,…
This article contains spoilers for Mina the Hollower The fact that Mina the Hollower has a secret ending is not, in itself, remarkable. Yacht Club Games’ fathomless, Zelda-inspired action-adventure is exactly the kind of game that would have a secret ending, riven with mysteries and surprises and optional paths as it is. What makes it…
“Bongo shotto!”. Just in case you weren’t paying attention, the World Cup started this week. The globe’s biggest sporting event is the perfect excuse to play football-based video games, which is why I’ve dusted off my copy of what I consider to be one of the best representations of the sport ever seen – Konami’s…