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I knew something had to give, but I never realized just how fatigued I was with Final Fantasy 14’s current state until I walked out of the Anaheim Convention Center last month after Fan Fest. Years of rigid adherence to aging systems and its predictable patch structure were finally catching up to me. My favorite…
Surprise, surprise. Our quizzes on the RPG that swept awards shows all through 2023 (and even into 2024) continue to be some of our most popular. Baldur’s Gate 3 really left an impression on everyone, and even after finishing up our quiz on the final act, I’m already thinking about how I’ll revisit the series…
As part of a talk highlighted in the 2026 GDC Trends Report, Playstack head of discovery Patrick Johnson explained how the indie publisher got in on the ground floor with PCG’s 2024 game of the year, Balatro. There’s no shortcut or sexy secret, though, just putting in boring work with a dose of good old-fashioned…
Back in January, Terraria finally received its gargantuan 1.4.5 patch. Three years in the making, 1.4.5 was supposed to be the final update for the long-running, massively successful survival-crafting game. But it turns out that developer Re-Logic is terrible at making final updates, having committed to at least one further major patch in the future…
If you’ve played Pragmata, there’s a slight chance you’ve noticed it resembles an action game from the Xbox 360/PS3 era. By ‘slight chance’, I mean the connection has been made by anyone who has looked at Capcom’s third-person shooter for more than five seconds. Yet while this may have been considered an insult a decade…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Welcome back to FOV 90, the best and only FPS column at PC Gamer. I’ve…
Myst is the game best known for driving adoption of the CD-ROM drive, but as a Halloween-obsessed kid in the ’90s, The 7th Guest was where it was at for me. The 1993 puzzle-adventure game was, like Myst, one of the first games that required a CD-ROM drive—but unlike Myst, sometimes your mouse cursor was…
At the end of 2025, a guy who had been playing notorious space MMO, spreadsheet-in-disguise, and corporate espionage sim EVE Online for just six months basically got a $7,000 ship out of nowhere. After a brief, agonizing period in which he might have been lowballed or otherwise thwarted like a Coen Brothers character sitting on…
Here’s a nice little bit of trivia to carry you into your weekend: Amidst all the hullabaloo about the surprise Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past that was announced earlier this week, CD Projekt also revealed that Geralt’s big(gest) adventure has now surpassed 65 million copies sold. “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which recently…
One of my favorite genres of film isn’t a real genre, though if it was it’d be called “survivalone.” It’s when one person winds up in a dangerous environment and pretty much spends the whole movie alone trying to escape it. In this genre there’s very little talking or exposition, you only know as much…