Remember those beige computer speakers everyone used to have on their desks? It used to be normal to play PC games with speakers, before we got obsessed with positional audio and wanted headsets with microphones so we could yell at each other over TeamSpeak. But you don’t have to shrink your aural experience when you’re…
The creators of Blue & Blood—an ambitious total conversion mod reimagining GTA: San Andreas from the perspective of the LSPD’s notorious CRASH unit—have confirmed they’re developing a brand-new indie game inspired by a strange but intriguing mix of multi-genre-spanning titles. While chatting about the nuts and bolts of their in-development Grand Theft Auto project, modders-turned…
“In my opinion, there was no chance of failing”. Sega and Nintendo were fierce hardware rivals for much of the ’80s and ’90s, with the latter usually being more commercially successful than the former. One contest that Nintendo won relatively comfortably was in the handheld arena. Its Game Boy portable launched in 1989 and sold…
Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter when it released in 1998, what with its top shelf storytelling and novel puzzles. But who needs any of that crap? What if there was a game that turned the clock back just like, a year or two—same alien menace, some of the same innovations, but it plays a hell…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO 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. Every…
You might not know this, but that alarmingly good Paper Mario-inspired RPG, The Stick of Truth, and its sequel, The Fractured But Whole? As it turns out, those are based on what’s referred to as a “television program” called South Park. It might not be a videogame, but mercifully for my attention span, it does…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. When I say Arc Raiders, the first things that probably pop into your mind are arcs and raiding. But a…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is Mario Kart’s far more chaotic, perpetually drunk uncle, but it’s also perhaps the closest we’ll ever get to Nintendo’s flagship racer on our humble PCs. It’s gimmicky and goofy as all hell. Rings fly as I crash and careen into other racers, dodging items takes far more knack than holding a…
Although MindsEye only released five months ago, it somehow feels like a century since it burst forward from the starting line, smacked its head off the first hurdle and was driven away comatose in an ambulance that then exploded. Build A Rocket Boy’s third-person action adventure/reconstituted metaverse was plainly unfinished when it stumbled onto Steam,…