PC Gaming
If Straftat ever has no fans, that means PC Gamer is dead. We named the throwback arena shooter the best FPS of 2024, and its lump-faced, cigarette-smoking combatants have only risen in our estimation with every return we’ve made to its countless brutalist combat dreamscapes. Today, Straftat ascends to an even higher tier of peerlessness,…
A few weeks after delaying the unexpected Cyberpunk 2077 2.3 update out of its planned June 26 launch, it looks like a release is getting closer—and could be very close indeed, as some sites are reporting the patch will drop on July 17. At the very least, we’ll find out tomorrow—July 16—what’s coming in the…
Helldivers with a flair for the dramatic (or psychotic) got good news yesterday when Arrowhead announced that, “thanks to some groundbreaking military research into pointier flag tips,” the CQC-1 One True Flag melee weapon in Helldivers 2 “can now be proudly planted directly into enemies—dead or alive.” Arrowhead described the heraldric upgrade as “absolute democracy”…
Sometimes all you can do is take a struggling project back to the drawing board. Unfortunately for Dead Island 2 publisher Deep Silver, that’s a decision that meant adding eight years and millions of dollars to the sequel’s development time (via GamesIndustry.biz). In a talk at British game dev conference Develop:Brighton, former Deep Silver head…
Reports of job losses at Intel are reaching critical mass. In the past week, layoffs totalling around 4,000 people are reported to have hit Intel sites across California, Oregon, Texas and Arizona. As bad as these losses are, according to Intel’s own plans for the company they could just be the beginning. It started last…
All parents of Minecraft-obsessed children have learned a new song by heart this year. “LA-LA-LA-LAVA CHI-CHI-CHI-CHICKEN” booms Jack Black from the treacherous Alexa for the thirtieth time that day, and I quietly put my head in my hands and weep. The 34-second earworm Lava Chicken is the shortest song ever to crack the Billboard top…
The Edge of Fate kicks off the next era of Destiny 2 with a trippy campaign premise all about the Nine, and that’s going to be further expanded upon once the The Desert Perpetual release time rolls around. From the brief glimpse we’ve had so far, it looks to give us more of a look…
Iron Galaxy, the studio that made the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake, says it is investigating how an amusing, some might say slightly edgy, reference to Guitar Hero and developer Neversoft ended up in the game. It also committed to removing the image in question, even though players are now asking the…
Sometimes in this job, my decisions are easy. I see a game called COP BASTARD has released a demo, of course I download and play that demo. Simple. The question, then, is whether there’s anything to it beyond a very good name. The answer: sort of? (Image credit: Targim) Set in ’90s Japan, but seemingly…
If you needed further evidence we live in a dystopia an editor would chuck out for being too on-the-nose, try this: per sources spoken to by MobileGamer.biz, laid-off staff at social-game dev King (as in Activision Blizzard King) are being replaced by AI. The AI they helped build, in fact. If you can cast your…