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When I recently spoke to Stellar Jockeys lead artist Jack Monahan and lead designer Hugh Monahan about Brigador Killers, a big focus for me was approachability versus depth. Most of my favorite games are super-crusty and complex RPGs or immersive sims, and the studios that made them—Troika, Looking Glass, Obsidian, to name a few—often found…
I’ve been playing videogames since my Dad was convinced my tiny baby hands were strong enough to grip a Mega Drive controller for more than five seconds. I’m sure he was just trying to convince my mum that the CD add-on was worth the insane amount of money—it definitely wasn’t, as I’m told it broke…
If what Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier says is true and making an indie game is like buying a lottery ticket, Meccha Chameleon has hit the jackpot. It seems uncontestable as the friendslop hit of the year now, with over 15 million copies sold in less than a month. Developer lemorion_1224 thanked players for all the…
Last week, Marvel Rivals made the headlines for a familiar reason: one of its new skins is on the bleeding edge of horny superhero costume design. But in a refreshing change of pace, it was the boys’ turn this time around—Captain America got a summer swimsuit skin with proportions so absurd they’d make a Gears…
Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. Larian didn’t want to make Baldur’s Gate 4, BioWare veteran James Ohlen didn’t want…
Do you know what makes Warhammer 40k so special? It’s not just the Space Marines. No, it’s the setting’s sense of mystery. Even after burying my head in hundreds of Black Library novels, there’s still plenty I don’t know about its vast and enigmatic universe, and even more I’ve simply forgotten. No matter how hard…
Sul sul! If you’ve ever spent extended time with The Sims, don’t pretend like you don’t know what I’m saying—we’ve all been there. It’s never enough to open a game in the series for a quick session. You’ve got to spend hours micromanaging households, building new homes, and coordinating fancy ‘fits. More quizzes! (Image credit:…
In 2025, Commodore was bought by retro YouTuber Chris “Peri Fractic” Simpson, who re-assembled some key execs and went into the hardware business. The main result so far has been the Commodore 64 Ultimate, the slimline 64C, and a line of merch including, er, a backpack holster? Until last month, that is, when Commodore unveiled…
As spotted by Japan’s IT Media News, a paper presented at Purdue University’s MFS Cultural AI Conference called AI Fiction in the Wild performed a fascinating study of half a million anonymous English-language ChatGPT-user conversations using WildChat, and found some real oddities. Well, one in particular. The study’s purpose was to analyze the significant number…
Anytime you’re talking about the hottest game on Steam, there’s an evergreen unspoken caveat: ‘after Counter-Strike, of course.’ CS2 is unquestionably Steam’s killer app—it has well over a million concurrent players as I write this according to SteamDB, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. But don’t count out the game it once absorbed…