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For the first time since switching to an annual expansion cycle, Guild Wars 2’s next release will introduce a new set of elite specializations for each of the game’s nine classes—or professions, as they’re called in-game. Elite specs are a pretty big deal—making fundamental changes to how a profession plays. New traits, utility skills and…
Terminally Online This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. My credentials? Well, I’ve…
A fresh week deserves a smooth start, so let us help you make Monday’s Wordle as easy as you like. Doing OK so far? That’s great news, just make sure you keep our October 6 (1570) hints and clues ready in case you need them—they can help at any point between a clean board and…
It’s hard out there for a Civ-like. Civilization 7 may have been divisive, but the bones of its competitors can still be seen poking out of the ground. Millennia, a Civ-like developed by C Prompt Games and published by Paradox last year just received a final update before being consigned to sink into the lone…
For years, the developers of Final Fantasy have fretted that a big audience will no longer show up for turn-based games: that to make a flashy, expensive RPG these days, it’s all about the action. Perhaps that’s true when you need a game to sell in the tens of millions, but within the same period…
Nintendo has released an official response after rumors spread online last week that it was lobbying against generative AI with the Japanese government, as reported by Video Games Chronicle. Nintendo stated in a post on X (formerly Twitter): “Contrary to recent discussions on the internet, Nintendo has not had any contact with the Japanese government…
40-year games industry veteran Rebecca Heineman has started a GoFundMe to help deal with an aggressive cancer diagnosis, one whose costs are only partially covered by private insurance. Heineman’s career extends back to the days of Space Invaders, with credits on at least 71 games including The Bard’s Tale 3 and early ports of Doom…
A month after launch, Cronos: The New Dawn now has a native Linux build, with devs Bloober Team announcing in a post on Steam, “Today, we’ve released a native build of the game for Steam’s handheld console, which means even better performance on this platform. Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!” Cronos: The New…
“Valve added a bunch of new community maps to Counter-Strike 2 on October 2nd,” SteamDB wrote in an October 4 BlueSky post, “and now one of the maps, Transit, has been removed due to potential copyright issues and one of the entity names having a gamer word.” Attached was a picture of a distinctively-shaped building…
I’ve never been a big JRPG person except for Persona, but I fell head over heels for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel port that came to PC back in 2017. I can’t even remember the exact circumstances that led me to put 50 hours into a game I’d never heard of before,…