Gamer Fridge

In terms of complexity, anxiety, and sheer turbidity, launching a videogame seems roughly equivalent to planning a land war on Mars. It’s a constant, 5D chess game with thousands of players and no clear ruleset, where definite victories become humiliating defeats—and vice versa—according to no obvious ruleset. But at least one thing is clear: you’re…

We’ve got a fresh clue for today’s Wordle Win your first Wordle of the week as fast and easily as you like with our help. Even in a single row if you feel like it—today’s answer is only a click away if the idea of filling your first row with green letters appeals to you….

13 solid years ago, when PC Gamer global editor-in-chief Phil Savage was still grinding away as a lowly news guy, Crytek—which had purchased and rebranded Free Radical Design a few years earlier—gave a group of modders the official okay to make a “TimeSplitters CryEngine mod.” And like so many such projects, it floundered, popping up…

Given Remedy’s preoccupation with looping stories in Alan Wake 2, it feels particularly fitting that the game now has a New Game Plus mode. Just as Alan himself is trapped experiencing the same events over and over, now you too can pretend you’re in the Dark Place by turning the year’s best horror game into…

It’s time for an introduction Wow, has it been nine years already? Happily (or sadly, to some of my critics), this isn’t another article bidding Maximum PC readers a fond farewell—we’ve had too many of those over the past several years. Instead, it’s a “thank you” note to those of you who’ve stuck around to…