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Rockstar is known for being very weird with its marketing and releases, telling us as little as feasibly possible. It can afford to, I suppose. We’re all gonna be tuned in and coughing up the cash for GTA 6 anyhow—and what a lot of cash it is. While GTA 6 is launching on November 19,…
From the archives: This story originally ran in PC Gamer (UK) #287. REINSTALL (Image credit: LucasFilm Games) Reinstall invites you to join us in revisiting PC gaming days gone by. Today, Richard revisits one of the greatest Star Wars stories ever told. What stands out most about Knights of the Old Republic II is that…
Grand Theft Auto 6—which you would be forgiven for thinking is a videogame, but is actually a civilisational event on par with man’s exile from Eden—got a big infodump today, ahead of its preorders kicking off. One smidge of that infodump? A treasure trove of new screenshots to market the game’s pricier Ultimate Edition, showing…
Well, gamers. It’s been months of rumours and analysts offering their thoughts on what Grand Theft Auto 6 was going to cost. The big $100 has been thrown around a bunch in that time, despite living in a world where normal videogames cost $70. In this morning’s meeting with a couple fellow PC Gamer writers,…
It’s easy for us, sitting in our chairs of critique and our long, weary experience with the live service wringer, to decry the model as something inherently toxic for the industry. And yet we participate in a society—I mean, er—still play them. And while monetisation’s gone far off the reservation in recent years, leaving us…
The GTA 6 pre-orders are going live soon, letting you pre-purchase your chosen edition of the game for when it launches in November. You might be wondering why there’s so much fuss around a pre-order, but since GTA 5, a GTA release has become a once-in-a-decade global phenomenon, even if it isn’t confirmed when we’ll…
While Vampire: The Masquerade is the obvious option when you want to play a TTRPG where you get to be a vampire, the problem is you need a full table of pretend bloodsuckers to make it work. If you’re the only wannabe vampire in your group and everyone else would rather be a more typical…
OD is Hideo Kojima’s return to horror, and while I’d like to say it’s cloaked in mystery we actually know a fair bit about it: it’s co-written with Jordan Peele of Get Out fame, and stars Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and a posthumous Udo Kier. According to Kojima, early trailers may point to “a standard…
I love the look of Marathon, and I like shooters in general. But extraction shooters? Not so much. I’m not very good at them, for one thing, and the constant pressure to get out with your loot before the timer hits zero is a huge drag. So when Bungie said it was looking at PvE…
The ongoing regime change and reorganization at Xbox hasn’t given much cause for confidence in the state of its studios—particularly Arkane Lyon, which has stayed almost entirely out of the public eye since announcing Marvel’s Blade at the 2023 Game Awards. The studio was once again absent at this month’s Xbox Games Showcase, and the…