Holy smokes. I’ve already written about the amazing impact Shining in the Darkness had on me as a young gamer; a Japanese fusion of Dungeon Master and Dragon Quest, it really opened up my eyes to the allure of the first-person turn-based JRPG – so I was actually somewhat dismayed when the follow-up, Shining Force,…
I love a good game about skulking through the shadows, but it isn’t an activity I get to do much in virtual worlds anymore. Even within the already sparse genre of stealth games, most modern sneak ’em ups are based around lines of sight rather than levels of light. I always figured this was because…
A new challenger approaches. Welcome to the weekend! No megaton announcements over the past seven days, but plenty going on. Nintendo revealed a new mobile game and released a Switch 2 exclusive, The Pokémon Company is looking to use government ID to combat TCG scalping in Japan, and a potential launch for Switch 1 in…
Paying homage to Mega Man and Kirby 64. Acclaim’s comeback continues with the announcement Kidbash: Super Legend will be releasing “early” next year. This colourful new title, developed by the Indonesian-based studios Authentic Remixes and Fat Raccoon, is described as a “nostalgic roguelike action-platformer”, and is currently locked in for “Steam and consoles”. Read the…
If you’ve had enough of blasting away enemies, jumping from platform to platform, or dealing with difficult puzzlers then come and check out Super Slalom by Bisboch for the Commodore 64. A new sports down hill skiing game, which is based on the original SLALOM game by COMMODORE ELEC. LTD & HAL LABORATORY, JAPAN. To…
There were certainly signs that Destiny 2’s best days were behind it, but this week’s announcement that the shooter will no longer receive content updates still came as a shock. The first-person shooter has been evolving for nearly a decade, and among the players devastated by the news are content creators who’ve built careers and…
The CTF shooter Last Flag initially caught our eye because of the co-founders of developer Night Street Games: Mac and Dan Reynolds, better known to the world as, respectively, the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons. But it turned out to be a pretty good shooter too: PC Gamer editor Tyler Wilde, who’s no…
The announcement of Destiny 2’s imminent end of live service development wasn’t entirely unexpected news, given Bungie’s well-documented struggles in recent years, but it’s an abrupt conclusion for a game series that’s now left with an uncertain future. Reportedly, Bungie hasn’t yet greenlit a project for a Destiny 3, meaning many of the setting’s ongoing…
In a recent video on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG developer Tim Cain shared his memories of the 1983 videogame industry crash. In particular, he emphasized that, although bad—like, really bad—he doesn’t believe the current employment and studio closure crisis matches the impact of the infamous ’80s collapse. Cain got his caveats out of the…
Four years ago, we declared that ingenious puzzle designer Zach Gage’s Knotwords might dethrone Wordle as our favorite daily word puzzle game. Well, here I am making the same claim again in 2026: Gage and his collaborators at the puzzle site Puzzmo have a new game out today, called Ribbit. Ribbit has something Wordle is…