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The original Sinking City was a touch too ambitious for its own good, spreading its supernatural horror mystery across an open world that left it feeling thin. When I played a preview build of the sequel earlier this year, it seemed more focused, the kind of survival horror game with room for exploration within its…
Asymmetrical PvP is all the rage these days, especially among licensed horror games for some reason—a new 3v1 Saw game just got revealed yesterday—but what if I want to pick up my knife and carve up some innocent people without the social pressures of online competition? I never thought I’d say this, but Michael Myers…
Exodus, the sci-fi action RPG in development at Archetype Entertainment, dropped an extended gameplay video today at the Future Games Show. It delivers the most up-close look at the game yet—and for better or worse, it’s not shaking the allegations that it looks a lot like Mass Effect. The hero in Exodus is Jun Aslan,…
At the Future Games Show today, Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galante talked about making more Vampire Survivors spin-offs—noting the success of Vampire Crawlers as a motivator—which he’s calling “Survivatons.” It’s a “stupid” name that is “short for survive-a-ton,” the masked Poncle head said in the interview. We can expect a Survivaton to be like Vampire…
Gothic is no walk in the park, and the remake didn’t move the needle on that too much—PC Gamer weekend editor Jody Macgregor called it “an RPG for people who think Daggerfall was the last good Bethesda game” in his review. One thing the remake did overhaul was the lockpicking system, though players are still…
Wardogs, we learned from the new trailer that dropped during today’s Future Games Show, is not a battle royale. It is also not an extraction shooter. So… what is it? The video does eventually get to that part: It’s an “all-out warfare” FPS for up to 100 players. The trailer looks pretty straightforward as these…
Another month goes by, another highly-anticipated survival game is poised for a big launch. But Solarpunk, which has over 1.2 million wishlists on Steam, has issued a warning to players before they buy it on June 8: make sure you know what you’re actually getting. “Is Solarpunk for you?” developer Cyberwave asked in a post…
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. As…
In a video blog published today, ArenaNet said that Guild Wars 3 won’t mean the end of development for Guild Wars 2. It and even GW1 will be getting new updates “for the foreseeable future.” “We are not replacing your favorite games. We’ll be supporting them,” said ArenaNet head Colin Johanson in the video. “We…
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Guild Wars 2 review – PC Gamer issue #245 (UK, November 2012) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and newly taken screenshots. By Chris Thursten (Image credit: ArenaNet) Players gather on the staircase leading down…