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What do you get when you fuse the ultimate half-paying-attention time-waster with the act of collecting cards, somehow the most compulsive activity known to man, and then make it go really fast? You get a game seemingly grown in a lab to be the ultimate time killer. Vampire Crawlers is Wolverine for your social calendar….
The cuts at Ubisoft continued today with the layoffs of 40 people from the company’s Toronto studio. First reported by MobileSyrup, the layoffs are part of the ongoing restructuring of Ubisoft into “creative houses,” announced in January, a process that’s also included multiple game cancellations, studio closures, and other layoffs. “Following the recent announcement of the final phase of Ubisoft’s…
Sony has confirmed a Bloomberg report saying that Bluepoint Games, the Sony-owned studio known for its remasters of games including Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls, is being closed in March. The shutdown will reportedly result in roughly 70 people being put out of work. “Following a recent business review, the decision was made…
Last week, Tim Clark, PC Gamer’s resident Arc Raiders die-hard (seriously, he has 530 hours in-game), sat down and spoke with Embark Studios’ Virgil Watkins, design director, and Bence Pajor, audio director, ahead of the launch of its next major update, Shrouded Sky. In the 40 minutes we had, we asked the team all about…
Beyerdynamic is a highly respected name in the audio world, and for good reason. In fact, you’ll find the top spot in our best audiophile headphones for gaming guide is taken up by the Beyerdynamic MMX 330 Pro, a wired set that adds a microphone to the company’s tried and tested “great drivers, plush earpads”…
It’s fair to say that blueprints are one of, if not the most, divisive topics in the Arc Raiders community—and has been since launch. Finding blueprints is largely down to luck, leading to lots of frustration, which is only exacerbated by the fact that all that hard work is flushed down the drain if you…
The Internet Archive, the site responsible for running the handy archival tool, Wayback Machine, has reportedly seen sites such as Reddit, The New York Times, and The Guardian blocking it from getting access, due to concerns of AI scraping. Internet Archive director Mark Graham thinks “These concerns are understandable, but unfounded.” In a new blog…
It sure sounded like nails being driven into a coffin when the Highguard website took a dive late last week. It’s still up, but rather than the flashy splash screen and exhortation to ‘play now!’ it simply says, “Site unavailable,” along with an email link—not to Highguard developer Wildlight, but to website builder and host…
With all the processor news of late being focused on Intel’s new Panther Lake chips and its forthcoming Nova Lake monsters, it would be perfectly understandable if you’d completely forgotten about AMD and its next-gen Zen 6 architecture. If you have, then don’t worry, because one cryptic message from a well-known leaker suggests we’re in…
When I first sat down to play Horizon Zero Dawn, I was floored by how stunning it looked. Seeing the red grass sway in the breeze and the moonlight reflecting off the backs of deadly machines made me feel like I was truly living in Aloy’s world. Death Stranding also instantly wow’d me with its…