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Need to know What is it? Lovecraftian horror through the eyes of a penguin.Release date October 16, 2026Expect to pay $15 / £13Developer Origame DigitalPublisher Fellow TravellerReviewed on RX 9070 XT, Core i5 12600K, 32 GB RAM, Steam DeckMultiplayer NoSteam Deck VerifiedLink Steam Penguin Colony is a work of cosmic horror that I would recommend…
Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) For my column this week I was going to write about climbing all over monsters in Dragon Dogma 2’s chilly Dark Arisen expansion, but then EA decided to finally murder BioWare after years of slowly poisoning it. So sadly I am pivoting to this eulogy. It’s hard to discuss BioWare’s…
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…
Fans of Deus Ex, Dishonored and Gloomwood like to roll the words ‘immersive sim’ around their mouths as often as possible, savouring the fond associations with first-person drawer-rifling and guilt-ridden murder. Yet there’s something like consensus emerging among the makers of these games: it’s really hard to sell an immersive sim while calling it by…
It seems like there’s a new slightly-humorous-for-its-incongruity collab between game devs every other week at this point, and the latest in this sacred lineage is a team-up between Super Meat Boy 3D and Mouse: P.I. For Hire. The latter game’s titular mouse detective has been squished into a cube-like shape and sent to navigate a…
The Japan Actors Union, an org consisting of around 2,600 actors and voice actors, recently announced a series of measures to protect the rights of performers in the industry with regard to generative AI (reported in English via Automaton Media). It’s been a hot topic both in Japan and here in the west, with Leon…
Cozy games on Google The past five years of search demand on Google for cozy games, relaxing games, and casual games.Google Trends Interestingly, the resurgence of “casual games” is even more pronounced at a worldwide view.Google Trends First let’s check back in on the same Google Search data I pulled in 2023 to compare how…
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…
Well, here’s a headscratcher. Paolo Pedercini, developer of Future? No Thanks! recently admitted to using generative AI in his ecosocialist satire while also referring to the technology as “a technofascist, anti-human and anti-art project.” Now, the developer has removed several AI generated voice lines from the game, following a backlash to his use of the…
The death of BioWare has provoked a whole lot of tributes, memorialisation, and plain old nostalgia as all sorts of people come together to remember the bangers the erstwhile king of RPGs put out in its prime. CD Projekt Red, imsim founding father Warren Spector, and we here at PCG have all been trading BioWare…