Designed the Master System, Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast. Hideki Sato, the legendary hardware designer behind Sega’s most popular consoles, has passed away. He was 75. Sato joined Sega in 1971, and was first involved with the company’s arcade business. He would find fame within the firm’s domestic hardware division, designing the SG-1000, Master System, Mega…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! As I noted in our review, Mewgenics has a very particular tone—and frankly, it…
Head to Johto. On 27th February, Pokémon turns 30, and in honour of this momentous anniversary, we’re running a series of polls leading up to the big day, asking you to vote for your favourite Pokémon from each generation. The nine winners will then go head-to-head in a final poll at the end of the…
I visited the Monster Hunter bar in Tokyo last year and was amazed at the detail of some of the props and recreated armour sets around the entire place. But nothing in that bar impressed me as much as the fact someone is creating an entire, lifesize Seikret as a cosplay. Character Select Welcome to…
It’s a testament to the quality and inventiveness of Absolum that it stood out as strongly as it did when it released in October last year, a month that also brought us Battlefield 6, Bloodlines 2, and a little game called Arc Raiders. Absolum’s roguelite twist on a classic beat ’em up format was exactly…
Adding a rearview mirror to a first-person shooter might sound like a daft gimmick, but as PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield discovered three years ago, the defining mechanic of Hellscreen is anything but: “You have a mini, lower-res screen in the upper quadrant of your view at all times, and can blow it up and shrink…
But how do they fare in a straight-up head-to-head? Escape from Ever After is the heir apparent to the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door throne. Sleepy Castle Studio released it on 23rd January to all major platforms with a simple promise – deliver Paper Mario fans the game they’ve been clamouring for ever since Nintendo…
Who cares for The Last Caretaker? Channel 37, that’s who! The Finnish developer— cofounded by the creators of the Trials series—has been diligently maintaining its oddball survival sim since it splashed into Steam early access last year. The game, which sees you play as a robot tasked with saving the human race by artificially growing…
Space Channel 5! PaRappa the Rapper! Minecraft on Saturn! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Space Channel 5! PaRappa the Rapper! Minecraft on…
Epic Games may have since left the BSP-carved valleys of Unreal in favour of the cartoonish hills of Fortnite, but at least it hasn’t locked the series that put the company on the map deep in a digital vault somewhere. In the last few years, it has given permission for the Internet Archive to assume…