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Animator Bo Mathorne, creator of the 2011 animated short, Backwater Gospel, has revealed a new game project alongside developer Thomas Mygind: Skarven, a crunchy, lo-fi (but not too lo-fi) FPS inspired by narrative-heavy late ’90s/early aughts shooters like Half-Life. Skarven’s first trailer is all mood and light on action. The player approaches a lonely country…

While Rockstar takes its time polishing GTA 6 into a neon sunbeam, one hobbyist modder has apparently decided to just make their own Grand Theft Multiverse instead. FV Mods, who evidently runs on a diet of caffeine and pure willpower, has now released a trilogy of giant map add-ons for GTA 5—effectively turning San Andreas…

Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! So after months of living exclusively out of my Liked Songs folder and Spotify…

In the time it took to write and publish last week’s Character Select about the Very Cool x Minecraft collaboration, almost the entire thing sold out. Fewer than 10 pieces are currently listed on the website, and an even smaller number of each size, if any at all. So while I wait for my precious…

As someone who’s spent an excessive amount of time micromanaging entire civilizations, the industrious little rodents of Whiskerwood have to be the cutest critters I’ve ever lorded over. The adorable cat-and-mouse city builder puts you in charge of a fledgling mouse colony filled with hardworking, skilled laborers who don’t seem to know they’re the only…

Three Fields Entertainment, developers of Dangerous Golf, Danger Zone, and most recently the Burnout-meets-Trackmania mashup Wreckreation, has announced that it has put its entire staff on notice of redundancy, as the studio explained it “will not see revenue from game sales for the foreseeable future.” In a statement posted to X, Three Fields’ CEO Fiona…

Extreme sports sim Descenders Next looked primed to be an impressive follow-up to Ragesquid’s 2019 hit, taking the fundamentals which made Descenders’ downhill biking such a thrill and applying them to snowboarding and mountain-boarding. PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott took it for a spin last year and came away delighted, stating the sequel” adopts all of…

World War 1 survival horror Conscript was one of the bigger surprises of last year, with its unvarnished depiction of a French soldier’s journey through the battle of Verdun thoroughly impressing reviewer Alexander Chatziioannou. “Every aspect of the game feels meticulously crafted to convey the absurdity and depravity of war,” he wrote in his Conscript…

The recent history of real-time strategy has been more dark age than golden era, but there have been a few bright spots over the last decade. One of those is Northgard, a Viking-themed RTS that was released in 2018. Built on traditional strategy foundations, Northgard added novel ideas like game-altering weather systems and a region-based…