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Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Sea of Thieves (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) Developer: RareYear: 2018 I like pirate survival game Windrose a lot, but playing it mostly just made me pine for my favorite pirate game of all time: Sea of Thieves. It’s been…
Destiny 2 is over. Marathon is great but not doing numbers. What is FPS institution Bungie to do? According to our very attractive and informed readers, whom we love and value in a normal way, it’s Destiny 3 by a country mile. I included a poll on the matter in our story a few days…
Earlier this month, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter altered its guidelines with regard to adult content. Where before it only prohibited “pornographic” and illegal content, it changed to be more restrictive and almost comically detailed, banning everything from “implied sex acts” to “MILF/DILF” content. Tuesday, the company reverted this change, saying—you guessed it—it was under pressure from…
We’ve been going back through the PC Gamer vault looking for stories to revisit, reassess, or just have an honest “weren’t we naive?” chuckle about, and few have ticked all three boxes as much as our February 2012 “Armchair Designer” column, “Ten things we want to see in Elder Scrolls 6.” It was a scant…
Diablo continues to be a huge deal, and I’m not just talking about the latest entry, even if it is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game ever. Millions of people went straight back to Diablo 3, and as the series’ lead producer Matthew Cederquist told Polygon in a recent interview, Diablo’s 26-year-old sophomore release is still surprisingly active….
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. It’s 4 am and I am sitting in front of my PC, the monitor perched on a…
I love Wingspan, a birding-themed board game with a humdinger of a digital adaptation, but the hardest part about pitching it to board game skeptics is that they’re rarely tantalized by the theme. “Why would I play a game about identifying God’s most illustrious creations,” they whinge. “I want to play games about exciting things,…
More than team fights, more than shrewd theorycrafting, and more than map awareness, MOBAs are ultimately games about scaling: get more money than the other guys, and once you’ve got a power spike to leverage, dunk on them as hard as you can. That means the hardest part of these games is catching up. Each…
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. Terminally…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature 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…