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While not as important as crafting staples like acorn shells or weed stems, gathering a small supply of flower petals in Grounded 2 can still prove useful later on for armor upgrades and decor. Like most resources in the game’s dense grass and dark caves, petals aren’t hard to gather once you know what to…
I enjoyed my share of Twisted Metal as a kid, but I never loved Twisted Metal—and I think it’s because the drivers were corny. I know a lot of people love Sweet Tooth, but I just wanted to experience cars shooting and exploding each other without any clown-related distractions. Fumes understands me. In the early…
PC Gamer’s resident Call of Duty officer Morgan Park had some thoughts when Call of Duty HQ debuted in 2023, and I’m just going to let him speak for himself here: “Call of Duty’s new stupid launcher is a data management nightmare, and it may get worse with Modern Warfare 3.” No, come on Morgan,…
The International Game Developers Association, a non-profit industry group that aims to “support and empower game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers,” has weighed into the controversy over the delisting of NSFW games on Steam and Itch.io, calling for “greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated and actioned…
The Edge of Fate marks a landmark shift for Destiny 2. It’s both the launch of a new saga—an attempt to hook players into a bold new direction for the game’s story—and a massive change to Destiny’s most fundamental progression systems. Seasons are gone. Loot has been overhauled. The very structure of the activities you…
We’re in a golden age for incredibly weird games from Eastern Europe. There’s Indika, the one where you play a nun who chats with Satan. There’s Militsioner, the one where you explore a town presided over by a 100-story-tall cop. There’s HROT, the FPS about socialist Czechoslovakia. And now there’s One-Eyed Likho, a horror/puzzle game…
Game director “Soulframe” Liang accidentally started his career by making free games in RPG Maker and releasing them online. Two decades later, he’s making one of the highest profile upcoming games in China, the “kungfupunk” actioner Phantom Blade Zero. I recently flew to Beijing to spend a few hours with the game and have come…
I think unboxing experiences are a little overrated. While it’s nice to open your new purchase and find a level of care and attention paid to the packaging that makes every component feel like a rare gem, I don’t really mind if a product comes in a default, easy-to-recycle cardboard container. It makes me feel…
Data security in this day and age was already a joke. Besides one accurately guessed password putting a 158-year old company out of business, hackers keep finding zero-day flaws in Chrome like it’s going out of fashion. Speaking of, the latest data security punchline involves a zero-day flaw in Lovense, an app designed to remotely…
If the last decade has taught us anything, it’s that live service game development is the industry’s equivalent of high stakes gambling, where publishers ante up millions of dollars in the hopes that their game might hit the jackpot of becoming a lifestyle like Fortnite and Roblox. But as we’ve seen from countless failed launches,…