PlayStation Blogcast 191: Fave of the Year

PlayStation Blogcast 191: Fave of the Year

Happy New Year! The crew is fresh faced and ready to greet another year of sweet, sweet PlayStation games. Today, we pick our personal favorites from 2015 (Expansions included!) before we formally roll out the Game of the Year winners next week. Consider this an appetizer! Enjoy the show. Subscribe via iTunes or RSS, or…

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Despite ‘Mixed’ Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history

The latest game in the long-running Anno strategy city builder series has had a great launch week—depending on where you’re standing, at least. Anno 117: Pax Romana, which released on November 12, has been met with “Mixed” reviews on Steam and has been the target of complaints about the use of AI to create in-game…

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PC Gamer’s biggest hardware stories of 2024: Elon Musk, the rise and rise of AI, brilliant builds, the humbling of big tech giants, orb pondering aplenty, and much more

Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It’s been one more full revolution around the sun and—guess what—we’re back here again. As we survey a year of ups and downs, it’d be impossible to recount every beat. Instead, we’ve…

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Battlefield 6 players hit server queues as it rockets to over 500k Steam concurrents just 25 minutes after launch

War is hell. Also, war is irresistible. That’s if Battlefield 6’s launch concurrents, which smashed past GTA 5, Among Us, Starfield, and other heavy-hitters to become the 20th most-played game in SteamDB’s records about, uh, 25 minutes after launching. As I write this, the game sits at a current and all-time peak of 521,000 concurrent…

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