PC Gaming
I cover a lot of demos for PC Gamer, and some of them really stick with me. Divine Frequency has been a real lost Lenore among those memorable games: It was a rare shooter that managed to scare the living daylights out of me, while also being an amazingly satisfying action experience. I’ve been up…
Xanadu Next is a Diablo-esque JRPG originally developed by Nihon Falcom for Nokia N-Gage. Those bullet points were enough for me to grab it when Steam’s algorithm surfaced it for me last week as part of the ongoing Autumn sale. I wasn’t expecting it to be good, but I was definitely curious. Some background: Xanadu…
The plague of games industry layoffs and studio closures that seemed to explode in 2023 has yet to subside. Just about every week there’s news of some new restructuring, closure, or cancellation as the videogame industry, particularly in North America, is battered by global economic forces, corporate maneuvering, and private capital. Here’s the latest news…
THEN: NOW: WHAT? Vice City and Leonida, the fictional city and state that serve as the setting for Grand Theft Auto 6, are largely based on Miami and the state of Florida, and Rockstar and publisher Take-Two Interactive are moving heavy and hard to leverage that real-life inspiration to promote GTA 6 as its console…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. La Rochefoucauld once wrote,…
Which graphical effect will be crowned the worst in games? It’s down to the final two, and no one—no one—could’ve guessed the two effects that made it into the final round. It’s a huge surprise. This vote could go either way (lol). Get your votes in to decide once and for all which effect should…
Fun, thematic videogame recipes are not new. Suggesting dangerous and potentially lethal ingredients, however? Well, Love and Deepspace might just be the first game to make such a bold move. Yes, Infold’s hunky dating gacha recently posted to X with a handful of fun cocktails themed around the male suitors you can romance. Something worth…
RuneScape developer Jagex descended upon Birmingham (the British one, not the Alabama one) over the weekend with its annual RuneFest. As part of its RuneScape keynote, it showed off a trailer for its upcoming Dragon Slayer 2 quest which, er, featured a player character with six fingers and a bizarre sneaker-like sole on their very…
Embark is doing some monumental spring cleaning in the lead up to its major Arc Raiders‘ update Frozen Trail. There’s been an overhaul to its anticheat approach, the news of a potential PvE test, and a change to loot hotspots. But amid all of this, we’re also getting a rework to one of Speranza’s most…
Despite the immense volume of similarities between Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft, the team working on the upcoming collab rulebook knows that you can’t translate everything 1:1. Half of the MMO is about fighting the same bosses over and over until you finally get a good piece of loot. The grind isn’t made…