PC Gaming
Talk to a Path of Exile player and they’ll tell you they’re still a new player after 3,000 hours. By all accounts, PoE is the most action RPG you can find. It has over a decade of systems layered on top of each other, a web of complexity that you’d probably only understand if you…
If there’s one thing I know about human nature, it’s that we have a universal affection for a giant, derelict megastructure. Who among us, when presented a hauntingly massive brutalist shape, isn’t possessed by a profound, inchoate yearning to clamber all over it like a sort of reverent bug? Fulfilling that fundamental drive is the…
(Image credit: Firaxis Games) Reinstall: Tim Edwards plays Sid Meier’s Railroads! and tracks his progress – PC Gamer #201 (UK, July 2009) I didn’t realise I enjoyed business. But business is competition. Competition is a game. And games, I think we can all agree, are awesome. That’s why I’ve fallen in love with the railroads….
As Steam has grown over the years, so has the Steam Community Market, the online marketplace where Steam users buy and sell in-game items and other digital stuff to one another. To accommodate that growth, Valve has kicked off a beta test for a major update to the market, designed to make it easier to…
A small group of protesters opposed to the Saudi Arabia-led takeover of Electronic Arts staged a “raid”—in the metaphorical MMO sense of players teaming up to confront a powerful boss—at EA headquarters yesterday, demonstrating in front of the Madden field at the center of the company’s campus before attempting to present a petition signed by…
“Press F to pay respects” is out and now it’s “Press A to run away,” which is the very first thing I do in vampire-themed farm sim Moonlight Peaks. Dracula is my not-so-dear dad and I’m ditching his castle and his dracul-onian rules to find space for myself at the family cottage in the countryside….
One of the bigger showings at The Game Awards 2025 was the surprise reveal of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a successor to the beloved Knights of the Old Republic series being developed under the leadership of original KotOR director Casey Hudson at a new studio staffed with other BioWare veterans. A year…
Last year, solo developer Brian—operating as developer Burgee Media—released Erenshor in early access on Steam to offer the MMO experience he was denied in his EverQuest years by a shoddy internet connection that made group play impossible. It’s a fully simulated, singleplayer MMORPG, with dozens of quests, zones, and computer-controlled “simplayers” who’ll group up, join…
Just as you think you’ve made it through a tense episode of Directive 8020, you hit a puzzle that requires a key code to progress. Whether you’ve decided to send a distress signal or a warning to Earth in episode 7, you’ll still need to find the serial number for the probe. It’s not exactly…
In its latest earnings call, Sony included a corporate strategy for the future of the brand, and as you might be able to expect from any figurehead talking to investors, there’s a lot of talk about AI. As noted by GamesIndustry.biz, Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki believes “AI will make it easier to take on more…