PC Gaming
New Blood’s comic book golden age noir detective immersive sim shooter, Fallen Aces, just got a beefy new update: Its second episode, Shadow of Death, is playable right now, while the usually $15 game is on sale for $12 until August 8. I’m kind of allergic to playing games in early access, so I haven’t…
As part of an interview in the latest issue of GameInformer (spotted via GamesRadar), Capcom producer Masachika Kawata outlined the resurgent Japanese publisher’s approach to Resident Evil: Quality and quantity, with remakes bolstering the process and helping fund the development of more adventurous projects. According to Kawata, Capcom would like Resident Evil to be a…
We’re still in the dark with regards to a GTA 6 PC release date, but the neon-filtered pre-order screen for Rockstar’s next blockbuster on my PS5 looks too good to be true. I’ve racked up thousands of hours in GTA Online on PC over the last decade, but in the space between its arrival on…
First reported by Tom’s Hardware, it’s come to light that, not only are the four “Backward Compatibility on PC” original Xbox games released last week running on a double layer of Xbox console emulation, but savvy independent developers have already used those emulators to run other Xbox games on PC. Developer Nathan on X, “The…
From the archives: This story originally ran in PC Gamer #321 (UK, Sep. 2018). The review appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation. It’s a damn crime that no game ripped off Red Faction: Guerrilla’s Geo-mod destruction feature. You take a hammer and you use it to smash out a…
I wasn’t expecting Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida to directly call out World of Warcraft during a media Q&A at the MMO’s Berlin Fan Festival, but that’s exactly what happened. When asked about how the team plans to modernise Final Fantasy 14’s housing system—one which is regularly criticised for a lack of…
Remember Chort? He’s a sub-boss in one of Final Fantasy 14’s newest dungeons—a magnificent large-and-in-charge lad who rolls up into a ball and charges around the arena like a giant, fleshy Sonic the Hedgehog. I couldn’t stop laughing the first time I fought him, and I wasn’t the only person to immediately fall in love…
In a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, prolific actor J.K. Simmons dove into his relationship with the games he’s acted in. While not much of a gamer himself, the script for Portal 2 (where Simmons voiced Aperture founder Cave Johnson) seems to have left its mark on the actor. “Tom Britney from…
Like it or loathe it—and for the record, I am firmly in the latter camp–generative AI has continued to seep into every aspect of game development. What felt like the odd shovelware AI thumbnail here or generated texture there has transformed into “developers” parading around entirely vibe-coded videogames as if it’s something to be celebrated,…
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, a game with a title that feels like it ought to have a colon or an em dash somewhere in there, is finally here and it’s selling like whatever the nautical equivalent of hotcakes is. Hardtack, I guess. Not only did it sell 2 million copies in a single day,…