IGN’s Nintendo Podcast, which is titled Nintendo Voice Chat, may have revealed one of the two Wii U ports which Emily Rogers said were arriving on the Nintendo Switch in the near future. Judging from what was said by Peer Schneider, who is the co-founder of IGN, it sounds like Pikmin 3 will be one…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to test your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Ahh, Valentine’s Day. A celebration of love and an excuse to eat a mountain of adorable little heart-shaped chocolates regardless of…
As reported by Automaton, a survey conducted by the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) during June and July found that 51% of Japanese game companies are using AI in some capacity. The survey responses came from CESA member companies, which include the likes of Capcom, Level-5, Square Enix, Sega, and many more spanning major developers…
Leave the shell. Take the banana. The latest UK Charts are in and the newly-released Mafia: The Old Country finds itself at the top of the pile, knocking Mario Kart World off its pedestal and into second place. Elsewhere, Tales of the Shire has also performed admirably to land at number 8, despite some rather…
Here’s the thing: people don’t talk enough about Pillars of Eternity. It’s all ‘New Vegas’ this and ‘KOTOR 2’ that. Those games are incredible, sure, but Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is an all-time classic of a CRPG, if you ask me, while PoE1 is a damn good revival of the genre that deserves a…
As reported by Bloomberg, it’s been revealed that CD Projekt used AI to replicate the voice of the late Miłogost Reczek, who voiced Night City’s most reliable ripper doc, Viktor Vektor, in the base game’s Polish localisation back in 2020. Reczek built an extensive portfolio during his career, dubbing both games and movies in roles…
I am unreasonably excited for Streets of Rogue 2, the follow-up to 2019’s best immersive sim in which you could play a vampire, hacker, gorilla or bartender, which means I’ve been eagerly devouring information about it ever since it was announced in October last year. Lucky for me, then, that developer Matt Dabrowski is kicking…
Rogue chatbots resorting to blackmail and pondering consciousness? It has to be clickbait, right? Actually, no. One of the leading organisations in LLMs or large language models, Anthropic, has published a safety report covering its latest model, Claude Opus 4, and one of the more eye-popping subsections is titled, “Opportunistic blackmail” and explains how the…
I’ve always admired people who make their own costumes. Even when it’s for something as simple as a Halloween party, if someone’s gone an extra step to create something from scratch specifically for their costume, it just shows that little bit of extra creativity and dedication. That’s something I tend to lack. A lot of…
If you were hoping that Baldur’s Gate 3’s arrival on Xbox would herald its inclusion on Game Pass for prospective console and PC players, it looks like you’re out of luck. Larian’s impressive RPG will continue to only be available if you’re willing to shell out—but I promise you it’s worth it. In my Baldur’s…