PC Gaming

Thanks to user DamnInteresting on Hacker News, I’ve found my latest rabbit hole obsession on the Internet Archive: A significant portion of the English back catalogue of Byte Magazine, the granddaddy of personal computing periodicals, stretching all the way back to 1975. If you’re unfamiliar with Byte, the magazine basically grew up alongside personal computing….

I know what’s got you down. “Oh, it’s nothing,” I hear you lament. “I just want to play 2002 real-time tactics superhero RPG Freedom Force, but I don’t have access to the PC Gamer character skins exclusive to the June 2002 demo disc!” I think I speak for everyone when I say we have all…

When I spoke to Christoffer Bodegård, developer of the running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb (which uses a modified form of D&D 5th Edition rules), I had to ask: Why a Cleric? The ubiquitous fantasy holy healers never feel like protagonist material to me⁠—I’d much rather be a sneaky little Dick-Ass Rogue. There was…

Windrose, the latest survival-crafter to take Steam by storm, started selling like hot cakes the moment it launched—or, to be era-appropriate, like salt pork and bug-infested hardtack. It’s continued to rake in the doubloons since launch, and in less than a week, has “plundered” the 1 million copies sold milestone. The team at Kraken Express…

Pro skatin’ with Tony Hawk wouldn’t have felt half as cool without tracks like Motorhead’s Ace of Spades, and I fear I wouldn’t have cried as much as I did at the end of Life is Strange if not for Foals’ Spanish Sahara. Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where…

Videogames love pitting players against the moon or otherwise convincing them it’s a big problem, and while I loved Pragmata, it only saddled me with more lunar trauma. David Menkin, the actor who played protagonist Hugh, has always loved the big grey rock, but as he mentioned in an interview with Polygon, he had to…

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, first encountered PC…

Airborne Kingdom was one of the early pioneers of what I’ve dubbed the “weird city builder” trend, one that takes the genre out of its realistic, SimCity-esque roots and plonks it on the back of a dinosaur or in a world populated by beavers. In Airborne Kingdom’s case, the gimmick was building a flying city,…

There’s a lot I could rattle on about when it comes to Red Dead Redemption 2, but one of the features that really stuck out to me when I first played was Arthur’s journal. It’s pretty easy to ignore for the vast majority of the game, but when you stop to flick through the pages,…

Whether you think Dark Souls 2 is FromSoftware’s worst Souls game or its best (as many diehard fans believe) it’s undoubtedly the game that had the roughest development in the series. The sequel went through a mid-development reboot that resulted in a complete story overhaul, as well as the various level design quirks evident in…