There are a lot of ways to get laid off in the games industry—make a good game, make a bad game, start making a game that isn’t exciting. Start making a game that your boss actively loves and get told to jog on, anyway. Your boss wears a hat. You know, normal and healthy stuff….
Summer’s a’coming and that means the internet tube is about to extrude hundreds of videogame “world premiere” announcements in a variety of highly curated showcases—yes, PC Gaming Show included. So that you don’t have to wander through June saying “wait, that was today?” every time your group chat starts dropping hot new trailers, I’ve got…
And it’s very soon. Weeks of speculation on when The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be available on digital storefronts can be laid to rest today, as Universal has announced that the blockbuster animated sequel will be available on VOD on 19th May 2026 in the US. Not only that, Nintendo and Illumination’s sequel —…
Strike! For the longest time, I was convinced that Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 was the peak of the twin-stick arcade genre. It took what the original XBLA game did so well and perfected the formula, delivering an experience that was easy to grasp yet difficult to master. Imagine my surprise, then, to discover that…
As you should all know by now, the PC Gaming Show returns June 7. And if you didn’t know before reading that sentence, now you do—glad we’re all caught up. We’ve got a fantastic lineup of games on the way for you, and that means we need an even more fantastic lineup of hosts to…
3D printing is a fascinating hobby and one that has real-life applications. The idea of being able to build something and print it in your home is a DIYer’s dream. And that’s where the user-friendly 3D printing company Bambu Lab comes in. However, when an update made them less user-friendly, a controversy began brewing, which…
These past few days, I’ve been testing Forza Horizon 6 across various gaming PCs, monitor resolutions, settings, and whatnot. Overall, everything is peachy—the game looks and runs very well, even on older hardware, and you don’t have to lean on upscaling or frame generation to get a decent frame rate. But there’s one setting that…
“My goal is to express myself in a creative way.”. Stardew Valley is pure pixel art paradise. You can live the life you want to, decorate your farm how you want, fall in love with whoever your heart desires (within some limits). And, for creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone, it’s been his creative passion project for…
It’s been five years since Xbox Game Studios launched Forza Horizon 5, and now it’s back again, and in Forza Horizon 6, you’ll be burning rubber, smashing through fences, and generally causing four-wheeled mayhem in and around Tokyo, Japan. The Forza Horizon games have all been very much ‘arcade driving’ in nature, and number six…
Speeding through Shibuya Crossing in a souped up kei truck, Babymetal blaring out of the stereo, it’s easy to fall in love with the fantasy that Forza Horizon is selling. Recognisable locations stitched together across a large open world, a huge number of cars picked from multiple eras and disciplines, and a seemingly endless suite…