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I’m not sure why there hasn’t been a business simulator where you could live up the glamorous, extremely vicious, exploitative, and horrible life of a movie studio owner in Old Hollywood. At least until now, that is, as Weappy Studio has announced Hollywood Animal for release in February 2025 as an early access game where…
Isometric apocalypse sequel Underrail 2: Infusion is setting up to tee off in the coming years, and we’ve now got a first look at indie dev Stygian Software’s sequel to their first RPG. The new footage from an early alpha build is about 20 minutes showing off the new movement and combat systems developed for…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. To paraphrase an absolute belter from Andrew W.K., we here at PC Gamer do what we like and like what we do. Some may call us needlessly picky for it, but I…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I’ve looked at a lot of new PC gaming tech this year. Looking at my Steam Replay listing, far more than I’ve consistently played new games, that’s for sure. From the RTX…
2024 has been a strange one. If you look at what actually launched this year, it’s a perfectly decent roster of games: Helldivers 2, Balatro, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Shadow of the Erdtree, Sins of a Solar Empire 2, Stalker 2, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Path of Exile 2. Lots of good…
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone acknowledged earlier this year that his long-awaited next game, Haunted Chocolatier, started “getting dusty on the shelf” while he worked on Stardew Valley’s 1.6 patch. As much as I’m looking forward to his ghosts and ganache life sim, I don’t think there are many among us who’d fault Barone for…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. I don’t have a ton of…
Thanks to the power of democracy, Helldivers 2 has been named our best multiplayer game of the year. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Morgan Park, Staff Writer: When Helldivers 2 comes up in conversation years from now, people will probably bring up its genius approach to live service…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. As the protagonist of Dragon’s Dogma…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I’m forever espousing the benefits of a good microphone. It’s one of those things that you don’t think you need until you try one for yourself, or hear an awful one over…