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When Cookie Clicker and Candy Box both released in quick succession in 2013, I remember them being received mostly as a joke, or else as an amusing parody of “watch numbers go up” RPG gameplay. Then something weird happened: all my colleagues became fixated on Cookie Clicker. So did I. Lots of people on the…
The early access RPG Entropy is a very different beast to its developers’ previous work. Dread Delusion was a shockingly good homage to first person RPGs like King’s Field or The Elder Scrolls, while this new game is distinctly JRPG-inflected, nailing a lot of the feel and intangibles of something like Final Fantasy 10 or…
One of the many things making this feel like a particularly dumb epoch to be living through is the way the US government has taken to using videogames as a tool for self-aggrandizement and disseminating its pro-war and anti-immigration messages. A bunch of people who usually argue politics should be kept out of videogames have…
Sometimes it’s nice to just find something cool and fun and free on the internet, and the Cartographia Imperialis is just that: A 3D galaxy map of the Warhammer 40K Milky Way you can peruse in your browser. It has the same simple, awe-inspiring majesty as Mass Effect’s take on the concept, and you can…
It already felt weird and wonderful to say that PC Gamer has reviewed Metal Gear Solid 4, a game for the personal computer. Now it gets even weirder: MGS4 mods are incoming, with TriggerHappy on YouTube already showing off a custom map in Kojima’s 2008 stealth-action classic. Back in 2021, modder Jayveer showed off a…
On September 5, Rebel Wolves took to Twitter on the official Blood of Dawnwalker account to announce that the dark vampire RPG had already surpassed one million copies sold just three days after its September 2 launch. “Thank you for playing, sharing, supporting, and being part of the community,” the developer wrote in its celebratory…
In a Gamescom interview with IGN, Saber CCO and former id Software dev Tim Willits said that the company’s upcoming Space Marine follow-up is not using generative AI in its development. The studio has otherwise been embracing the technology, which was at the heart of the recent Rideshare Stimulator controversy. “There is absolutely no generative…
AI in gamedev is about as hot as hot topics get—the tech is polarizing for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is its environmental impact. The data centers AI relies on come with grave heat and water use concerns at a time when our species’ ecological footprint is already leaning toward the…
You know, I do a lot of prattling about videogame music at this humble website PC Gamer dot com. It’s practically woven into the fabric of my very being at this point—hugely formative for me growing up, and now I carry little bits of it everywhere. I have half a dozen VGM playlists dedicated to…
Like a lot of survival games, Stalker 2 had a long journey from janky larva to playable, easily recommended butterfly. It’s tempting to say that these games ought to just stay under wraps until they’re done and relatively bug-free—but at Gamescom 2026, GSC Game World CEO and head of game direction Ievgen Grygorovych told PC…