PC Gaming
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…
Adventure game royalty Broken Sword is the latest videogame to get a movie adaptation, with a film being co-developed by series creators Revolution Software and producer Story Kitchen, which has worked on numerous videogame adaptations for screen, including the (generally liked) Sonic the Hedgehog films and Amazon’s upcoming Life is Strange TV show. Reported by…
James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Playing Luna Abyss and Zero Parades for Dead Spies, instead of stepping out into all the rain we’re getting this British Summer. As strange as it is to say, I often feel like I’m forced to use the Xbox Controller whenever I turn on…
If you’re a fan of city-builders, Life Below should already be on your radar. It’s a very different take on the art of metropolis construction that swaps out the tenements and skyscrapers of your standard SimCity-likes for constructing glittering coral reefs as you attempt to revive collapsing marine ecosystems. It looks utterly beautiful, is developed…
While there’s a lot of speculation about when, if ever, Star Citizen will actually be finished, Cloud Imperium Games’ massively ambitious space sim has been in a steadily-growing playable alpha for a long time. And if you want to check out how far along the game is without investing hundreds of dollars in virtual spaceships,…
I love a good game about skulking through the shadows, but it isn’t an activity I get to do much in virtual worlds anymore. Even within the already sparse genre of stealth games, most modern sneak ’em ups are based around lines of sight rather than levels of light. I always figured this was because…
There were certainly signs that Destiny 2’s best days were behind it, but this week’s announcement that the shooter will no longer receive content updates still came as a shock. The first-person shooter has been evolving for nearly a decade, and among the players devastated by the news are content creators who’ve built careers and…
The CTF shooter Last Flag initially caught our eye because of the co-founders of developer Night Street Games: Mac and Dan Reynolds, better known to the world as, respectively, the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons. But it turned out to be a pretty good shooter too: PC Gamer editor Tyler Wilde, who’s no…
The announcement of Destiny 2’s imminent end of live service development wasn’t entirely unexpected news, given Bungie’s well-documented struggles in recent years, but it’s an abrupt conclusion for a game series that’s now left with an uncertain future. Reportedly, Bungie hasn’t yet greenlit a project for a Destiny 3, meaning many of the setting’s ongoing…
In a recent video on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG developer Tim Cain shared his memories of the 1983 videogame industry crash. In particular, he emphasized that, although bad—like, really bad—he doesn’t believe the current employment and studio closure crisis matches the impact of the infamous ’80s collapse. Cain got his caveats out of the…