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As translated to English by Automaton, Japanese gaming website 4Gamer has published a feature on the late Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and the neo-Ninja Gaiden games. 4Gamer interviewed some of the developer’s collaborators, unearthing some surprising stories from the colorful developer’s life. In addition to his ultraviolent and occasionally terminally horny games,…

When it was announced that medieval cemetery management sim Graveyard Keeper was getting a sequel this week, the reveal attracted some uneasy comments on social media. Players thought the new key art had some of the uncanny hallmarks associated with generative AI, and it pushed some fans to scrutinize things further. “The promo art looks…

As reported by The Cybersec Guru, Rockstar Games has suffered a security breach of indeterminate scope by the group ShinyHunters. ShinyHunters has threatened to release the data if Rockstar does not pay a ransom, while the company has confirmed the validity of the claim in a statement to Cybersec Guru and Kotaku: “We can confirm…

The Steam Deck seems like a lovely machine for tackling retro games, since they tend not to guzzle storage space. That doesn’t mean their Steam versions are always deck verified, though—if you’ve hit this wall trying to replay Capcom classics like Dino Crisis or the OG Resident Evil games, you’ll be pleased to hear better…

Dungeon Master 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. At the end of 2024, I resigned myself to the fact that BioWare was no longer capable,…

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. I don’t know what compels me to keep forcing you all to confront the ugly history of videogame movies in…

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I wish I could play the third person, Nintendo 64-exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, but on my PC and in first person”? What’s that? You don’t think anybody has thought that before in the history of humankind? Well, I can assure you that at least four people have,…

Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying out some seriously fast gaming monitors, including a 600 Hz TN panel. My Counter-Strike gaming has never been so buttery smooth. Over the past year, I’ve found myself falling head over heels for a couple of different competitive gaming mice for vastly different…

Rockstar Games’ cancelled open world game Agent is one of the more mysterious elements of the Grand Theft Auto 6 developer’s history. Originally revealed back in 2007, Agent was a relatively high-profile project for years, but never showed much beyond the odd bit of concept art, eventually vanishing from Rockstar’s website in 2021. More information…