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In 2016, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo announced a new venture called Bonfire Studios, made up of former Blizzard colleagues and ex-Nexon CEO Min Kim. Nine years down the road, he’s finally revealed the studio’s first project: A team-based PvP game called Arkheron. Pardo told VentureBeat that Arkheron has been in proper…
Alienware has been taking a run at the high-end peripheral market recently with its Pro line of gaming accessories. Following the Alienware Pro Wireless keyboard and Alienware Pro Wireless mouse, we now have the Alienware Pro Wireless gaming headset, presumably completing a line up of peripherals that Alienware hopes will tempt buyers away from other…
I didn’t expect to be spending today writing about a console, but here we are. The Nintendo Switch 2 is officially announced in a teasingly slow-to-start video, and hold up, did those Joy-Cons just start slipping and sliding around like the rodents we PC gamers are so used to? Yes, I believe they did. In…
Tekken 8 did some good things with its online matches: It introduced a best-of-three format which, while not mandatory, at least encourages folk to stick it out for a few games and get that true tournament feel. It also, however, did some not-so-good things. Introducing the best-of-three matches came at the sacrifice of the humble…
We’ve finally got our first official look at the Nintendo Switch 2, and the internet is very excited. Rightly so, I suppose, as the next-generation of Nintendo’s uber-popular handheld gaming console has been rumoured, speculated on, and pontificated about for some time. And while I hate to be the naysayer of the group (who am…
A slew of superb handheld gaming PCs have wrestled me away from using my Nintendo Switch in recent years. I appreciate the happy-go-lucky Nintendo console and its ability to continue to function relatively well with ancient hardware, but my Steam library is calling to me. There’s only room in my backpack for one handheld machine…
Warhammer videogames have been pretty hit-and-miss over the years, to put it mildly—but Saber Interactive’s Space Marine 2 was firmly on the ‘hit’ side of the fence last year, reaching a player count of 4.5 million a month after launch and drawing more interest to the world’s most grimdark sci-fi setting than ever. Unsurprisingly, Games…
World of Warcraft’s Plunderstorm is back for another go from January 14 to February 18. If you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain—Blizzard put a pirate Fortnite in their MMO. Why? Well, for the most part, the company’s making an attempt at branching out and evolving its existing game systems—having a…
The GTA 5 Liberty City Preservation Project (LCPP) was released this month after six years of work, recreating GTA 4’s unforgettable Liberty City within GTA 5’s game world. This was a seriously impressive piece of work, managing to bring over the entirety of Rockstar’s skewed New York and show it all off with GTA 5’s…
It’s judgement day for Charlemagne of the Roman Empire (not ‘Holy’ Roman Empire, I hasten to add, as leaders are no longer attached to their historical civilisations in Civilization 7). I’m playing the grand strategy game for PC Gamer’s forthcoming review—it’s out February 11—and after several millennia of strained diplomacy with Charlemagne, throughout which I’d…