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The poor servers trying to keep up with the influx of players logging into Arc Raiders are starting to buckle. Many players, including PC Gamer’s own Morgan Park, are reporting matchmaking errors and queue times just as the extraction shooter hit just over 330,000 concurrent players on Steam. Considering it’s on consoles and other storefronts…
It’s official: It’s totally fair game to blame your graphics settings when you get sniped out of nowhere in Arc Raiders. You can blame it on the bushes that failed to hide your position against players who have found out that your graphics settings can be a slight competitive advantage. It wasn’t that you were…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG 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. Alright,…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! You’ve collected every coin. Done every side quest. Spoken to every single NPC. S-ranked…
Cosplay is still a bit of an unknown world to me, but it’s one I’d love to be more involved with. I’ve only ever cosplayed once, really—aside from the odd Halloween costume which I know doesn’t really count—but that doesn’t mean I don’t try to stay as in the loop as possible. I’ve always been…
Eggs! They’re the new gaming craze, baby. Forget roguelikes, or friendslop, or rogue friends, or sloplikes, eggs are the hottest they’ve been in the virtual realm since the days of Tamagotchi. Just how hot, you ask? Well, there are three egg-themed games launching within a week of each other. Which isn’t that many in the…
I practically heard the monkey’s paw curling a finger when Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow was revealed back in June. Here after more than a decade, was an honest-to-god new Thief game, one that brings back Stephen Russell to lend his gravelly tones to Garrett. “But you don’t get to play as him”, the antique…
Remedy Entertainment’s woes continue with FBC: Firebreak. The cooperative shooter proved a disappointment when it released in June, launching in an anaemic state, lacking basic features like in-game voice chat and a tutorial, and generally seeming like a compromised vision despite a few novel ideas. Its first major update, Breakpoint, went some way to addressing…
Remember Agent? After first mentioning it in 2007, Rockstar formally announced it in 2009—an espionage game in an open world, GTA meets James Bond, with all the cars-turning-into-submarines gadgetry that implies. After bouncing between different Rockstar studios for a while, Agent vanished off the radar, with its death finally being confirmed in 2021. In a…
Doom level designer Sandy Petersen has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to explain the closure of Ensemble Studios, where he worked in the 2000s. According to Petersen, Ensemble and its in-development Halo MMO were scuttled by Xbox boss Don Mattrick to protect a short-term, profit-based bonus he was elligible to receive. “In 2008, Ensemble Studios…