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When the HMS Escapist sank everyone worth a damn swam away to form a YouTube channel called Second Wind, where Yahtzee Croshaw’s video series Zero Punctuation continued under the name Fully Ramblomatic. It’s not exactly the same—the people have glasses now—but it’s continuing the essential work of being rude about videogames on the internet. Back…
They say that art is never finished, only abandoned—but that doesn’t seem to be the case for Yoko Taro, creator of Nier and Drakengard, who you might recognize by the round, smiley Emil mask he wears. According to a report from Denfaminicogamer (via IGN), Taro said at the Tokyo French Institute last month that he’s…
I remember being a kid and wishing I had shoes that lit up. I know now that I was a fool. If I festooned myself with garish lights, how would I scavenge for supplies in a frozen wasteland without being spotted by strangers who may or may not kill me before I can use my…
Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. Most videogame RPGs are selling a power fantasy—the idea that you are competent, clever…
I was stuck in elo hell for a good four years, then I entered elo purgatory for another five years, and now I’m apparently in elo heaven, but for some reason it still feels like elo hell. I guess that’s just part and parcel of playing online competitive multiplayer games. While I’d never want to…
In the age of near photorealism, it takes a lot for a game’s visuals to impress me. As cramming yet more pixels into a videogame character’s face provides diminishing returns, standing out from the crowd is increasingly about how creative developers get in applying that power. All that said, I was genuinely mesmerised by the…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature 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?” SungWon Cho got into PC gaming through…
One of the many ways AI will (supposedly) revolutionise the games industry in facilitating highly reactive NPCs via LLM-powered chatbots. Yet so far, only a handful of games like Where Winds Meet have attempted to implement the tech, and the results have been less than spectacular. But there might also be another reason why relatively…
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
Typical, isn’t it? You wait ages for new information on a Chris Roberts-directed space combat sim, and then two lots come along at once. Less than 24 hours after Cloud Imperium Games surprise-released a glossy trailer for Star Citizen‘s single-player spinoff Squadron 42, it now appears that Roberts’ 1994 classic Wing Commander 3 is getting…