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Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I have not been able to stop thinking about Big Walk since I finished the game alongside…
I lobbied to make Promise Mascot Agency the best cozy game in our 2025 Game of the Year awards, which means I’m only (checks calendar) a little late in getting it added to my list of best cozy games this week. I adore its silly story and open world exploration and got to thinking about…
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
We all hoped that Inzoi would be the competitor to The Sims 4 that the life sim genre has needed for years. Thus far, though, things haven’t quite panned out that way. Life sim expert Mollie Taylor described Inzoi’s early access version as a “shallow imitation” of The Sims, while the game’s own director Hyungjin…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Ashly Burch’s first encounter with PC gaming…
Nighthawks, the long-in-development vampire RPG due to be released later this month, is the latest game to run afoul of Steam’s increasingly stringent rules regarding adult content. According to publisher Wadjet Eye Games, the game has been labelled ‘Adults Only’—causing it to be removed from Steam search and outright delisted in certain countries like Germany—despite…
I’ve played just about every damn iteration of Crazy Taxi there is. My first exposure to it was the PlayStation 2 EyeToy version included in Sega Superstars, which involved me wildly gesticulating and yelling in order to get Axel’s attention. Yes, for some reason you are the passenger in the EyeToy version of Crazy Taxi….
Amnesia: The Bunker is without a doubt the most frightening horror game I’ve played this decade. Its terrifying tale of being chased through a crumbling French bunker by a monster has the darkest, thickest, most unnerving atmosphere of any horror game I’ve played since Alien: Isolation. It’s so intense that it’s hard to imagine anyone…
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and screenshots. By Garry Whitta Beneath a Steel Sky review – PC Gamer #1 (UK, December 1993) It’s here at last. After two years in development and more column…
Reactions to the StarCraft trailer shown at BlizzCon this year seem pretty universal. Initial excitement, immediately deflated when the words “STARCRAFT RETURNS 2030” appeared at the end. (The fact it’s going to be an “open world shooter” didn’t help.) The surprise announcement of Diablo 5 coming in 2029 seems odd too. There were 11 years…