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According to Alinea Analytics (via Eurogamer), Death Stranding 2: On the Beach sold 425,000 copies in its first week on PC. Add that to the 1.6 million it racked up on PlayStation 5, and that brings Death Stranding 2 over two million copies sold so far. Which is nothing on the 20 million players director…
Does a tactics game need a story? Does it even need to look good? Greg Foertsch, creative director on the upcoming XCOM-like Star Wars: Zero Company, certainly thinks so. The former XCOM dev dove into his thoughts on the genre in a recent conversation with PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield. While it might seem…
It’s no secret that layoffs often upend lives, but a particular pain point for workers in the United States is that it’s exceedingly common to only have health insurance through your employer. If a sudden layoff blindsides you, your coverage goes with your income. So it went with Mike Prinke, a technical writer who worked…
Crimson Desert has been fielding all sorts of opinions, though PCG features producer Mollie Taylor scored it a very respectable 80% in her review and it’s certainly proven popular. If you’re among the new wave of Crimson Desert-heads, you’ll want to check out the newest update—it’s positively stuffed with new doodads and welcome changes. The…
Less than two years ago, Surgent Studios was on the brink. Its debut project, the afrofuturist metroidvania Tales of Kenzera: Zau, reviewed well but underperformed commercially. In July 2024, Surgent laid off around a dozen employees. Three months later, it put its entire team on notice for redundancy. It’s a trajectory that’s all too familiar…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was a big hit last year and took home PC Gamer’s GOTY award, but developer Warhorse has had a strange week when it comes to AI. Game director Daniel Vávra took to X to defend DLSS 5 last Monday, and just yesterday, a thread was posted to the Kingdom Come subreddit…
I do a lot of prattling on about how videogame music is a core component of design. Its exclusion is like baking a cake without any sugar or sweetener. Sure, you can still eat it, but it’s not going to taste anywhere near as good without that syrupy twang. Something I don’t prattle too much…
It’s that time of year where everyone says they’re going to sort out the boxes and bags of stuff that have been thrown into storage, and yes, I’m among the crowd who is desperately trying to do the same. But half the fun of deciding to do this is finding things I’ve simply forgotten I…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” “Starting to be able to use a PC was one…
AI is coming to take my job, so I’d better start looking for a new one. Luckily, there are a ton of job simulators on Steam, and I’m going to play as many as I can until I find my next career. This week’s job: Zoo Life Simulator, an early access game about managing a…