Mario is a PC gaming icon, and yes, that stands for “personal computer” and not “plumber chic.” His best 3D platformer got a PC port back in 2020 thanks to a growing Nintendo 64 recompilation effort, and even if you don’t count that, his dogshittest game came to PC back in 1992. But I’m not…
I’m genuinely surprised that there haven’t been more geese-themed games since Untitled Goose Game, or at least more games about dickhead animals violating social norms. House House’s avian bullying simulator was a riotous success when it released in 2020, the kind of phenomenon that normally spawns a legion of imitators. Yet with the possible exception…
The worst part about getting matched up against a cheater in any game is knowing there’s not much you can do. You can send in a report, you can wait for some automatic trigger to ban them, you can curse the gods in a faith tradition of your choice, but no one with any authority…
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. Have you heard? There’s a Baldur’s Gate TV show coming, headed up by Craig Mazin of Chernobyl and The Last…
Switch 2 demo arrives on 9th February. We’re fans of the final frontier around these parts, so when our combadges chirruped with news of a Star Trek game for Nintendo’s newest console, our anticipation grew like a clutch of tribbles in a grain silo. As you’ll have gathered from the title, Star Trek: Voyager –…
Scramble the interceptors! Gather your squad! Start the deployment theme! The incredible, exceptional, possibly unbeatable XCOM 2 is 10 years old. To celebrate, publisher 2K is letting XCOM greenhorns play it free on Steam this weekend. And if you like what you see, Firaxis’ turn-based tactics sequel is also on a 95% discount for the…
“I view Fang almost like a fan myself. I think I might be his biggest fan.”. Arguably, no one is a bigger fan of the Sonic character Fang the Sniper than its creator, Shinichi “Touma” Higashi. Despite leaving Sega in 2001 and embarking on a successful career as a toy designer (where he’s continued to…
It can be tough getting on with your neighbours. Sometimes you want to say things to them, like “Don’t let your adult children play bassy music until 2AM”, or “Don’t leave your dog alone at home all day so he spends the whole. Time. Barking.” But for the sake of a peaceful life, you don’t….
Stephen Cakebread’s Geometry Wars originally started as a Project Gotham Racing Easter egg, but from then on turned into a fully fledged eye candy neon top-down multi-directional shooter, with appearances on the DS all the way up to Steam. Well it’s time for the Amiga to enjoy this game, as NovaCoder has released ‘G-WARS’. A Geometry…
Humble is back with yet another bundle, and this one’s a doozy, the kind that makes me wish I could erase my memory so I could experience the joy of playing these games for the first time again. Sci-fi Shooters 2.0 loads a second clip of FPS action into its discount rifle, featuring some of…