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Ever since a study theorized that around 87 percent of videogames are not playable without finding a physical copy or nabbing a digital one via piracy or an archive, I stopped feigning shock when a game gets delisted. Games with licensed characters or music have an especially rough time staying on digital storefronts: Star Trek:…
Final Fantasy 14 isn’t the only Final Fantasy-related MMO. Its ancient ancestor, Final Fantasy 11, which released all the way back in 2002 before World of Warcraft reshaped the landscape for massively multiplayer games, is still trucking along. It’s not exactly bustling next to the likes of FF14, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, but it…
Final Fantasy 14 isn’t the only Final Fantasy-related MMO. Its ancient ancestor, Final Fantasy 11, which released all the way back in 2002 before World of Warcraft reshaped the landscape for massively multiplayer games, is still trucking along. It’s not exactly bustling next to the likes of FF14, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, but it…
Steam Controllers are the new hotness in hardware, but actually getting your hands on one is easier said than done. Before it launched, Valve said it had “knobs” at the ready to get pads in hands as soon as possible, but the controllers sold out in barely a day, leaving plenty of folks waiting in…
Steam Controllers are the new hotness in hardware, but actually getting your hands on one is easier said than done. Before it launched, Valve said it had “knobs” at the ready to get pads in hands as soon as possible, but the controllers sold out in barely a day, leaving plenty of folks waiting in…
I’ve heard rumours. Whispers of an underground rave for the ages, deep within the bowels of one of GTA Online‘s myriad entertainment venues, away from the prying eyes of the LSPD. The question is: where? As a child of the ’90s, I was a touch too young for the techno scene that swept the UK…
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’m…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
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. Well, you all seemed to take last week’s pixelated nightmare of a quiz in your stride—lots of high marks all…
MercurySteam, the developer behind Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and the Switch exclusive Metroid Dread, has announced layoffs in the same week its latest game Blades of Fire launches on Steam. “There’s no easy way to share this kind of news, but today we must communicate that MercurySteam has initiated a workforce adjustment process,” the studio…