WoW came back from the brink because Blizzard ran it like a live service game—but now that same tactic’s threatening everything

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. World…

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Most MMOs have so many expansions, it’s hard to keep track of them all—can you tell our clever fakes from the real ones?

I don’t envy the people who have to come up with MMO expansion names—firstly, you need to make sure its acronym isn’t some kind of rude word (shoutout to FF14’s Endwalker making me call my favourite MMO “ew” for two years). But you also need to encapsulate that expansion’s shtick. More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian…

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Menace’s first major early access update overhauls its least interesting faction and jettisons its reviled promotion tax system: ‘We have done away with it’

While still very much at the ‘early’ stage of early access, Menace is by all accounts an excellent take on turn-based tactics. Wannabe space mercenary Jonathan Bolding was effusive in his praise of its approach to the genre when he deployed into its sci-fi universe in March. “I can’t stress enough how much fun Menace’s…

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With Silent Hill 2’s source code still MIA, a dedicated fan has decided to restore the game’s CGI renders: ‘Takayoshi’ Sato’s work was incredible for its time’

We already have a modern version of Silent Hill 2 thanks to Bloober Team’s excellent 2024 remake. But I wouldn’t say no to a remastered version of the original game as well. Since Bloober Team’s overhaul makes significant changes to elements like mechanics, perspective, and how the story is told, there remains plenty of reason…

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The Alice: Madness Returns dev team ‘made history,’ American McGee says: It was ‘the first team ever to tell EA *** and (kinda) get away with it’

Alice creator American McGee has been in something of a chatty mood lately. Just a couple days after relating a tale about how he drew inspiration from a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2 at id, he shared another story about Alice: Madness Returns, offering a fun glimpse into game dev financing,…

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