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In an email statement to Japanese gaming site Denfaminico Gamer, FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki indicated that the studio has unannounced new projects in the works, while largely demurring from making a comment about recent investor drama at FromSoft’s parent company, Kadokawa. I’ve relied on machine translation to parse Denfaminico’s article and Miyazaki’s email response. The…

Spore is the greatest game that never was. Clear as day, I remember the wonder the pitch instilled in me as a young’un. It was to be a true simulation like The Sims, not just of daily life, but of the history of all life—life as everything from a unicellular amoeba to a spacefaring alien…

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…

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Cave Story+ review – PC Gamer issue #236 (UK, February 2012) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and newly taken screenshots. By Chris Donlan (Image credit: Studio Pixel, Nicalis) Over on a Cave Story messageboard,…

This article contains spoilers for Mina the Hollower The fact that Mina the Hollower has a secret ending is not, in itself, remarkable. Yacht Club Games’ fathomless, Zelda-inspired action-adventure is exactly the kind of game that would have a secret ending, riven with mysteries and surprises and optional paths as it is. What makes it…

I’m a big fan of management sims, and I think Frontier’s Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster series are some of the best modern examples you can play. Not the best—that award goes to last year’s brilliant Two Point Museum, though there’s a good chance the recently announced Planet Zoo 2 could steal the crown back…

Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Latency testing a 320 Hz monitor, trying to climb up CS2 Premier ranks, and looking into information theory. If you’ve been on this planet as long as I have, you might remember the sentiment that your eyes can’t see above 60 fps. At least,…

Before I explain to you why Scarlet Deer Inn is one of my most anticipated games of this year, I urge you to download the demo on Steam and play it for yourself. It’s hard to describe why I’m so excited by it without spoiling the very specific moment I realised it had serious juice,…

Sony’s surprise decision to reverse its strategy of porting singleplayer PlayStation games to PC has been scrutinized plenty. Bluepoint Games’ head of technology suggested it was likely because Sony’s more worried about Valve than about Xbox, while our own Morgan Park pointed out that Sony is only robbing us of maybe four half-decent games. Alinea…

Last year we were extremely stoked to learn about the development of Blizzard in Baator, a fan project to expand our beloved CRPG fave Planescape: Torment with new story, cinematics, music, characters (including a couple of recruitable companions), and locations (including the Frozen Wastes of Cania) It’s finally here, with act one available now. As…