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Our first glimpse of Alex Garland’s upcoming Elden Ring movie might be in a TikTok video shot by a lucky fan in the UK. Not only is it unmistakably a near-exact recreation of the ruined churches from the game, there’s evidence that it’s being built in a popular filming location. Throxtv, an Elden Ring fan…
Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Lance McDonald has unveiled his latest discovery from deep in the bowels of Elden Ring, a WIP base game cutscene featuring DLC antagonist Miquella the Kind, who remains one of the most enigmatic characters in any FromSoft game. The cut scene (cut cutscene?) shows Miquella planting a sapling Haligtree—the endgame dungeon where…
Generative AI has wormed its way into all sorts of high-profile games, but plenty of developers have taken a hard stance against the tech. Digital Extremes has just joined the chorus of anti-AI game developers, with community director Megan Everett telling GameSpot she’s “very passionate about not having any of that shit.” “We are a…
I don’t envy any showrunners currently working on a videogame adaptation, which have been the new hotness since Fallout and The Last of Us hit the big time. On one side, you’ve got the general TV audience who may be skeptical of what videogames can bring to the table, and on the other, you’ve got…
Some mods are utterly transformative: Tweaks to the baseline experience that feel like they were always there, or standalone campaigns worthy of their own retail release. I’m not talking about either of those today. I’m talking about Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3. Last October, Nexus user Pope74220—presumably not the actual Bishop of Rome and…
Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Checking out free experiences like indie horror Sato Killing Time Chat.exe and cyberpunk match-three narrative game D14L-ogue. Before joining the hardware team here, I spent a significant chunk of my early career writing for Official PlayStation Magazine UK—and not even I am excited for…
I played MindsEye, and it’s bad. Developer Build a Rocket Boy says the game has come a long way since its launch last year, and while it might be less worse, it’s still not good. Yet I recently spent a couple weeks playing it from start to finish, and despite everything—despite it being bad in…
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. Final…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
There’s a new subscription service on the block: Indie Pass, which promises access to “a curated catalog of games from indie developers” for $6.99/month. Indie Pass is set to launch on April 13 with 70 games, most of which are unfamiliar to me—they come from the catalog of publisher indie.io, the company behind the service,…