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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 you might be sick of hearing me parrot by now: videogames are nothing…

If you’ve ever trundled around on the back of a Warthog in the original Halo, you’ll remember the way its tires seemed to melt into noisy blur as they got going. Turns out, there’s no actual blur effect being applied—the game just swaps out a normal tire texture with one that looks hazy whenever the…

In the most welcome of news, you can now play the original Grand Theft Auto—the 1997 top-down, chaos-in-a-shoebox crime simulator that started it all—on modern PCs and Steam Decks without cursing at your screen and tearing your hair out. As a long-suffering bald man, I’m not sure I can confidently pin my lack of follicle…

The skating game revival of the last few years has been an unexpected, but welcome surprise. Vicarious Visions’ remaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 heralded a new wave of aspiring skate sims, ranging from the ultra-authentic Session: Skate Sim to the abstract brilliance of Skate Story, with EA’s online playground Skate landing somewhere between…

Terraria‘s long-awaited 1.4.5 update finally arrived in January, digging up a treasure trove of new features like an overhauled crafting interface, a new world seed, updated visuals, crossover items with Palworld and Dead Cells, and a vast array of new objects, mobs, and secrets to discover. It’s gone down a storm with Terraria’ community, but…

We’ve known that Timberborn has been approaching the end of its early access journey for some time, but developer Mechanistry had yet to pin down a specific 1.0 launch date for its popular beaver-themed city builder. Now though, as the developer gnaws through the last few items on its to-do list, it has formally revealed…