PC Gaming
Before billionaires decided they’d quite like to transform Mars into a tax haven, the red planet was pretty cool. The disgustingly youthful among you might not even remember its heyday. It really peaked in 1996, when Tim Burton and Jonathan Gems created Mars Attacks!, a B-movie pastiche based on the ancient TCG. OK, maybe I’m…
Quake and Quake 2 are, famously, very different shooters. The original is a dark gothic fantasy with a side of HP Lovecraft, while the latter leans hard into industrial sci-fi. I’ve always thought of them as entirely separate stories, but Quake 2’s latest official episodes—the Machine Games-developed Call of The Machine—explicitly connects the two, with…
As someone who grew up when true cooperative games were vanishingly rare, the sheer number of games that allow you to play with pals at your side these days is astonishing. Every other game seems to support larking around for up to four people. And in the increasingly unlikely event that a game doesn’t have…
Listening to the soundtrack of atmospheric soulslike Lies of P when it was released, I realised something—wait a second, I know a lot of these songs. Why do I know a lot of these songs? The game just came out! It’s not like developer Neowiz was licensing chart-topping pop tunes to include in its soundtrack….
ohemia Interactive is in no rush to release Arma 4—the latest in its long line of hugely detailed military simulators—but when you have a game as successful as Arma 3 on your hands, you can afford to take your time. BI’s biggest and best milsim to date has kept players satisfied for more than a…
While not as flashy as Star Citizen or as popular as No Man’s Sky, X4: Foundations is one of the most comprehensive space sims you can play today. Representing a return to form after the failed experiment that was X: Rebirth, X4 continues the series tradition of offering a preposterously detailed simulation of space—featuring trading,…
The September 14 (1548) Wordle clues can give you word-finding guidance whenever you need them—the first row, the last row, any row between, any time you like. Team them up with today’s hints for an additional boost to your puzzling, or cut straight to the part where you win with a scoot down the page…
There’s one more bit of PC-relevant news to come out of Nintendo’s latest blunderbuss of Mario guff, following the Hades 2 release date and Danganronpa 2×2 announcement. It’s that Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly is getting a remake, and it’ll be available on PC next year. “This title has undergone a complete overhaul,” the Steam…
Nintendo Directs don’t often have much of interest to PC gamers, though this September’s scattershot barrage of Switch 2 trailers did include the news that Hades 2 is about to leave early access. Which is nice. Buried in the avalanche of Zelda nonsense was something else of potential interest to us, however. Something called Danganronpa…
A couple of months ago, Techland pushed back the release of first-person zombie kicker Dying Light: The Beast by four weeks “to allow for extra polishing work”. I guess that work took less time than they expected, but only slightly less time. After moving the launch back to September 19, it’s now been moved forward…