“The deals they were offering just made absolutely no sense to me to go do this”. When Ron Gilbert revealed his upcoming rogue-like RPG Death By Scrolling at Gamescom Opening Night Live earlier this year, we have to say we were a little confused. Prior to the announcement, the Monkey Island creator had previously teased…
As much as a good battery life is going to be a high priority when it comes to buying a wireless gaming mouse, sometimes the need to nestle your rodent neatly in its own dock and go “aww look, it’s sleeping” will quickly knock battery life off the top of that list. And while gaming…
The vast majority of new games released for the humble PC are published with a list of what hardware is required to run it and another list of ‘recommended’ specs. However, the breadth and depth of this information vary enormously, but not so in the case of the forthcoming voxel-based sandbox Hytale. Its system requirements…
Pop quiz, hotshot: what was the headline on this article when you clicked on it? Was it classic PC Gamer style—witty, insightful, with the rare power of capturing the essence of a story with neither artifice nor evasion, and unintentionally but unmistakably implying the incredible mental powers and physical beauty of the writer? Or did…
And a little less for another… How on earth is it that time of year again already? It feels as though we can still sense the tight elastic of our tiny Kirby swimming trunks digging into our fresh summer sunburn, and yet here comes Rolling Stone with its Best of 2025 list, because it’s nearly…
Today, December 3 – Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) held the PlayStation Partner Awards Japan/Asia to celebrate some of the best PlayStation 5 titles that debuted through the year, made by creators in Japan and Asia. Read on for a rundown of all the games that received awards at this event. For the 2025 PlayStation Partner…
OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and one of the most iconic figures in the indy computing scene, says the bad rep of the Windows operating system for crashes and bugs is not down to bad code. It’s down to bad hardware. “I’m…
A launch day special. Eight years on from its big reveal, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond finally arrives on Switch 1 & 2 tomorrow. To make sure that things are in tip-top condition, Nintendo has today released the launch day update, boosting things up to ver. 1.1.0 and adding a bunch of day-one features to boot….
Well that’s not suspicious at all! 11th March 2025 marked the 30th anniversary of Chrono Trigger. Square Enix marked the occasion by announcing that “various projects” would be coming our way over the next year, but so far, those projects have been limited to character popularity polls and planned orchestral concerts. Importantly, that’s not the…
The document is believed to belong to Sakaguchi’s 1984 ADV ‘The Death Trap’. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the legendary creator of Final Fantasy, has been doing some “decluttering” recently and has come across something pretty fascinating in the process: his first-ever written video game proposal. As a result, he has since taken to Twitter/X to share the…