Please help me. It was the Christmas of 1992. Mr Blobby was the funniest thing on television (according to your parents), and Whitney Houston had been tricked into singing a love song about everyone’s favourite sentient cardigan, Kevin Costner (I feel like I’m having a war flashback now). And me? Well, I was having a…
SimCity fans likely had a slightly better Christmas this week. An unreleased NES version has finally been unleashed onto the city-building enthusiast crowd. Many will be aware of the SNES SimCity variant, but did you know a similar NES version was also in the works? From what we know now, it was mostly complete too….
Ahh, new hardware smell. If you’ve recently come into possession of a new Nintendo Switch 2, first of all, congratulations! You’re in for a treat, since the Switch 2 not only has a rapidly growing library of games, but you can also play almost every game from the original Switch, too. But what the heck…
So here it is… And here we are once more! It’s Yule! Navidad! Xmas! Chrimbo! Rudolphtide! Grinchtingle! Erm… Richard Curtistime? Hmm. Merry Christmas, everyone. It’s been a big year for Nintendo fans and the wider gaming industry, with new hardware, a load of new games, even more new versions of old games, plus plenty of…
I CAN let you do that, Star Fox! Remember the Star Fox 64 recompilation project Starship? It launched at the close of 2024 and was developed by Sonic Dreamcaster / Alejandro Javier Asenjo Nitti and Lywx, and brought the classic N64 title to PC and beyond. Sonic Dreamcaster is back with a second recompilation project…
Original story: It’s the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, Steam is down. It’s unclear what’s going on, but at a little before 2 pm ET on a Wednesday, we’re guessing this not routine maintenance. Steam appears to be completely gone: The…
We’re so back, baby. If you don’t already know about the schism between Story of Seasons and Harvest Moon, read up on it! But TL;DR, Story of Seasons is the OG – the original farming game series that sparked thousands of copycats hoping to carve out a slice of that cosy game pie. And who…
What’s been your favourite new game this year? You can read all about our choices right here, with our full Game of the Year Awards 2025 list, but I’ve got one more for you. Importantly, this one isn’t quite so subjective as most ‘best of’ collections because it reflects something that’s really important in PC…
Arkane revealed Blade at The Game Awards 2023, PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield lost his gourd, and not a whole lot has happened since then. The silence has gone on long enough to make PCG’s Fraser Brown nervous: Its no-show at Xbox Games Showcase this summer “makes me wonder if there have been some…
Arkane revealed Blade at The Game Awards 2023, PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield lost his gourd, and not a whole lot has happened since then. The silence has gone on long enough to make PCG’s Fraser Brown nervous: Its no-show at Xbox Games Showcase this summer “makes me wonder if there have been some…