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Once thought far too cheesy to bring with us into the modern gaming era, FMV has been enjoying a bit of a renaissance over the last decade, thanks to games like Her Story and Alan Wake. If you’re not familiar, it stands for full-motion video—in other words, it’s when live-action filmed sequences are used in…
This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to the brand new mecha game from Piranha Games, MechWarrior 5: Clans. This new entry in the long-running MechWarrior series promises to be the most explosive and narratively engaging yet, and we deliver never-before-seen images as well as authoritative developer insight. In addition, while we’re talking big stompy…
The Starfield community’s ships are giving me some heavy Spore flashbacks. In case that’s a game you missed, 2008’s Spore was a funky little space-sim with several minigames stacked onto its back-end. While it fell short of Maxis’ lofty promises, I still have fond memories of its creature creator—which people used to make anything other…
Tech Tales This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 385 in June 2023, as part of our Tech Tales series. Every month we talk about the ups and downs of PC hardware, with a look back on our own history with the hobby. It’s 7pm on a hazy June evening in my atrocious…
At the start of the year, Crystal Dynamics announced that Marvel’s Avengers would be delisted. Following a release that publisher Square Enix called “disappointing”, the live-service spandex-em-up was put on life support, with a final update in March and a subsequent patch in April. As of September 30 it won’t be available to buy on…
Kickstart a week of NYT Connections with a guaranteed win: all you have to do is sneak a cheeky peek at today’s answers and then bask in your speedy victory. If you prefer to keep things honest but can’t quite find the link between words, take a look at the hints for the September 18…
When game engine company Unity announced a change to its pricing plan last week, the response from developers was overwhelmingly negative. The change would mean developers would be charged an increasing fee as they crossed set thresholds every time their games were installed. It was called, among plenty of other things, “an astonishing scumbag move”….
You’ll find plenty of Wordle tips below, ranging from general advice to a clue written specifically for today’s game. If that doesn’t work out then don’t worry, because the answer for the September 18 (821) puzzle is never more than a quick click away. It took until the very last line, but I got there…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up…
VR studio MyDearest is best known for branching narrative games like Tokyo Chronos and Altdeus. Its next game is a bit of a departure then, being a three-on-three multiplayer punchyshoot where you can use super-gauntlets to send people into orbit. Brazen Blaze sounds kind of like a cross between Super Smash Bros. and a hero…