PC Gaming
Anytime you’re talking about the hottest game on Steam, there’s an evergreen unspoken caveat: ‘after Counter-Strike, of course.’ CS2 is unquestionably Steam’s killer app—it has well over a million concurrent players as I write this according to SteamDB, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. But don’t count out the game it once absorbed…
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…
A new Fallout 4 mod, Double Feature, is the fourth collaboration by modders Kinggath and co. with Elder Scrolls icon Wes Johnson—the man behind characters like Molag Bal, Sheogorath, and a whole lot more—as well as Fallout actors Jan Johns and Leer Leary. It’s part of Kinggath’s annual modding for charity project, which led to…
At the bidding of BioWare’s bosses, David Gaider created the world of Thedas, the setting of Dragon Age. And lo, it was beautiful, for a time. But he left the company after an abortive spell on Anthem, and today he’s working on a new RPG. “You play a crew of rogues in an airship that…
Andy Edser, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been: Testing the Steam Machine, and trying to get my head around its price tag. Also, I’ve suddenly found myself surrounded by refreshed gaming laptops. A nice problem to have, ey? I like handheld gaming PCs. Note that I’ve carefully used the word “like,” rather…
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. World…
Epic Games has reached a proposed settlement with a former contractor who it accused in March of being notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN. The agreement will see the defendant permanently barred from “possessing, accessing, using, or disclosing any of Epic’s confidential or trade secret information,” or helping anyone else do the same. Epic filed the action…
Ahead of Carcass Clad’s reveal at last month’s PC Gaming Show, I had the chance to speak to Wrong Organ devs Jeffrey Tomec and Dave van Egdom about the studio’s follow-up to its breakout hit, Mouthwashing. Carcass Clad is a very different sort of game, but with familiar themes and atmosphere. The bulk of our…
XA couple weeks after its early access launch, things are going mostly pretty well for the steampunk-mechs-in-the-desert game Sand: Raiders of Sophie. An update that rolled out on July 2 caused some surprise headaches and had to be rolled back, which isn’t great, but on the brighter side the game looks to be a legitimate…
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is a “tactical fleet simulator,” which basically means it’s a sci-fi strategy game with real-time combat set in the cold black void of (Tim Curry voice) space. It’s quite well regarded—PC Gamer magazine gave it an 83% review score in April 2005, according to Metacritic—but, as you can tell by that…