PC Gaming
Arcade gaming has created some of the most immediately recognisable and iconic hardware in the videogame scene. Nothing quite spells old school charm quite like an arcade machine complete with a full complement of tactile buttons and switches. With arcade style fighting games still being huge in the tournament scene, these have continued to evolve…
A rather sensational YouTube video appears to have set off a mild Steam review bombing directed at the Borderlands series. In March, Borderlands YouTuber Hellfire posted a video called “Take Two Spies on Borderlands Players,” and in it they highlight the differences between the game’s original end-user licensing agreements and the new one Take-Two applied…
Survival horror dungeon crawler Labyrinth of the Demon King is neck-and-neck with Avowed and Oblivion Remastered as my personal game of the year so far, which I absolutely did not expect when I loaded it up on my Steam Deck before a flight (I ended up playing it all five hours). But even more surprising…
I’m not much of a driving enthusiast, so I steered clear of Saber Interactive’s Mudrunner in 2017 and flaked out playing on Snowrunner in 2020. I like games where you do simulated jobs, though, and that’s what got me interested in RoadCraft, Saber’s new sim where industrial zones have been devastated by natural disasters and…
I remember how little time it took—just a few hours, really—for me to realize that The Witcher 3 was treating quests differently than any other RPG I’d played. In so many games, particularly ones released before The Witcher 3 in 2015, there’s a clear distinction in complexity and production value between the main quest and…
Last week, users on Reddit and ResetEra noticed that the GitHub library of DIY developer Lyall had been completely erased, with all links resulting in a 404 error. Lyall’s work included ultra widescreen patches for major games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and more. I have reached out to Lyall and GitHub…
Most modern RPGs still can’t match what The Witcher 3 did 10 years ago. It’s a huge game with almost no filler, cool monsters to fight, and sidequests that don’t feel like sidequests. It’s a tremendous achievement that a lot of us at PC Gamer remember fondly and will be reminiscing about this week for…
Last week, Epic was forced to deploy a hotfix to prevent Fortnite players from tricking its newly-added AI-powered Darth Vader from swearing and saying slurs with James Earl Jones’s voice. Today, AI Vader is the source of yet another controversy: SAG-AFTRA has filed unfair labor practice charges against Epic Games, alleging that the Fortnite publisher’s…
Even though Diablo 4 is much harder this season, a clever player has proven that you can get surprisingly far without using a single attack. I wouldn’t quite call it a pacifist run because it involves an entire army of wolves chewing through monsters, but it’s as close as you can get to a build…
Ten years! How many times in the last decade have we fetched that frying pan, whistled for Roach to give us a lift, sliced drowners in half, and used our Witcher senses to track a blood trail to a monster’s lair, only to find a tragic story at the end of what seemed like a…