I feel a little bad for Monster Hunter Wilds, a game I spent a very enjoyable 60-odd hours in, which is nonetheless currently tanking a severe “Overwhelmingly Negative” recent review rating on Steam. The problems are twofold: Firstly, the game hasn’t quite hit the same gameplay loop as past games, trading out (from what I’ve…
There is no better feeling in this world than completing little tasks. I swear I could’ve been a worker ant in a previous life with how much I enjoy ferrying something from point A to point B. I wouldn’t say it’s the trait that I have the most pride in, but I know myself well…
Today’s fantabulous PC Gaming Show 2025 featured a new trailer from Abyssus, which it says here is a “brinepunk roguelite.” You what now? It turns out that this means wielding “powerful brine-powered weapons” that, as seen in the new trailer, can be tinkered with and refitted with ominous-sounding “ancient technologies” to make ’em shoot good….
The supremely ugly situation of politics these days has put me off most forms of political pop culture. I don’t want to watch movies about fictional presidents, I don’t want to watch TV shows about the government, and I sure as heck don’t want to play games about political wheeling and dealing. At least until…
Devolver Digital and our friends at Croteam are excited to announce that the award-winning, philosophical first-person puzzler The Talos Principle will arrive on PS4 October 13th with the debut of The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition! This definitive version contains the original puzzler in all of its glory and the ambitious expansion The Talos Principle: Road…
8Bitdo Ultimate 2.4G | Hall Effect | Wireless | Charging dock | $49.99 $34.99 at Amazon (save $15) A premium controller that is somehow half the price of a PS5 DualSense right now. Assuming you like the ergonomics that most closely resemble a Switch Pro controller, you’ll find a lot to love here: large face…
Super Turrican (1993) & its Director’s Cut on a single cartridge. Factor 5’s famous run-and-gun shooter Super Turrican is being reissued on the Super Famicom in Japan in late July 2026, as recently revealed by the Japanese publisher, Columbus Circle. The rerelease was announced earlier today across Columbus Circle’s social media accounts and will reportedly…
Worth fighting for. This review was originally published in March 2015. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy Advance library. While Fire Emblem is a franchise with a long history in Japan, its track record in the West is far more condensed; in…
I was largely nonplussed by Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, particularly its relentless barrage of identikit fantasy action games that I struggled to tell apart. But one game stood out like a rat-powered computer in an elven glade, and that was Ontos, Frictional Games’ latest horror adventure/existential crisis generator. The Gamescom trailer was a barrage of…
If you’re set to give a university commencement address in the near future—and I know some of you are—here’s a PC Gamer tip: don’t hype up AI. Turns out modern grads just don’t want to hear your paeans to LLMs, whether you’re the real estate exec who got heckles for calling AI “the next industrial…