2024 continues to be an awful year for employees of the game industry, as another three studios have reportedly laid off employees this week. People Can Fly, the developer of games including Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and Outriders, has confirmed that “layoffs have happened,” while a Kotaku report says Destroy All Humans! studio Black Forest Games and…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the horniest games of all time and, you know what, that’s just how we like it here at PC Gamer (well, some of us). To play Larian’s fantasy RPG masterpiece and not bump uglies with at least something is probably this game’s true hero run, as there are quite…
Spot the difference. Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup In Bellabel Park got released this week and if you’re curious to see how it compares to the original game on the Switch, this video might be of interest. YouTube channel ‘ElAnalistaDeBits’ has released a side-by-side graphics comparison. This showcases the…
Hi all! Excited to share first details on PlayStation’s next State of Play, which will air Tuesday, September 24 at 1:00pm Pacific Time / 4:00pm Eastern TIme. We’re preparing a pretty hefty show, weighing in at around 20 minutes and sporting a fresh new look. And we’ll have some great news to share with you,…
Riding the small and curvy tech fads After learning about HP’s Pavilion Mini and Stream Mini desktop PCs yesterday, we gave Online Managing Editor and Video Guru Jimmy Thang a special mission — seek out HP’s booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and film the company’s products. It didn’t take him long to sniff…
When Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone announced back in April that his life-consuming farm-life sim would be getting another update, he described 1.6 as “mostly changes for modders (which will make it easier & more powerful to mod)”, saying the number of new additions would be “much less than 1.5.” He’s got Haunted Chocolatier to…
Harder, better, faster, stronger. When it comes to remaking and re-releasing a game, it’s easy to assume every publisher out there is plundering its back catalogue to refurbish and resell treasured games to a nostalgia-laced audience happy to pay for the comfort of childhood classics brought up to date on their current consoles. However, looking…
“I use AI to write code faster”. If you owned a 3DS, then you’ll be aware of just how amazing StreetPass was (and still is, if you’re truly dedicated). Having a portable system that could wirelessly communicate with other users while you’re out and about was a genuine joy, and to this day, I’m staggered…
The official SEGA Forever Twitter has announced that SEGA AGES G-LOC Air Battle is now available on the Nintendo Switch. If you don’t know what the game is, it’s a combat flight simulator arcade game that released in 1990 for arcades, the Master System, Game Gear, and SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive. It’s a spin-off of SEGA’s…
Multiple notable groups, including Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and numerous others have come together to pressure the UK government to stop “[undermining] the open internet.” In a joint statement, 19 organisations (listed below) wrote that “the open Internet is a global public resource that has long since become foundational to the…