PC Gaming
Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Checking out free experiences like indie horror Sato Killing Time Chat.exe and cyberpunk match-three narrative game D14L-ogue. Before joining the hardware team here, I spent a significant chunk of my early career writing for Official PlayStation Magazine UK—and not even I am excited for…
I played MindsEye, and it’s bad. Developer Build a Rocket Boy says the game has come a long way since its launch last year, and while it might be less worse, it’s still not good. Yet I recently spent a couple weeks playing it from start to finish, and despite everything—despite it being bad in…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO 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. Final…
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…
There’s a new subscription service on the block: Indie Pass, which promises access to “a curated catalog of games from indie developers” for $6.99/month. Indie Pass is set to launch on April 13 with 70 games, most of which are unfamiliar to me—they come from the catalog of publisher indie.io, the company behind the service,…
One might wonder, given the endless selection of good videogames out there: Why play a bad one? But let me turn that idea around on you. Given the endless selection of good videogames out there, what’s more enticing than one you’ve never heard of? Maybe it’s bad, but has one fascinating idea. Maybe it has…
If you could type a series of sentences into a computer and have it generate a videogame for you, would you? Well, you can—kind of. Tesana is one of a few companies promising that we can all make games simply by typing prompts into a generative AI system. In tandem with third-party AI services like…
Slay the Spire 2 is getting badges—not the ones you get on Steam, but not entirely different, either. In the notes for a new beta patch, developer Mega Crit said badges are a bit like achievements, in that they let you know about the cool things you accomplished during your run. “Badges may appear at…
As was recently spotted by Kotaku, Esquire Singapore published a feature in March all about live-action One Piece actor Mackenyu Arata called “Mackenyu in Resonance.” It includes what writer Joy Ling calls “an unprecedented interview for both parties,” which isn’t so much an interview as it is a transcript from an AI chat bot masquerading…
RTS games generally aren’t my thing, mostly because I’m not very good at them. But I loved the original Homeworld: Enemy AI was too easily exploited (although for me, that’s a feature, not a bug) but the setting and presentation were magnificent—more than enough to make it one of the most unforgettable games I’ve ever…