Mafia: The Old Country's Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one

Mafia: The Old Country’s Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one

While the Mafia series has always been more about telling a linear story than letting players explore fully-realised open worlds (with the possible exception of Mafia 3) Mafia: The Old Country was even more linear than most. Its story ushered players through its slice of Sicilian countryside in a rather impatient manner, and while its…

Read More

PS5 Pro owners will soon get an improved PSSR AI upscaler, while PC gamers with RDNA 2 and 3 GPUs are still praying for AMD to add official support for FSR 4

You might not be fully aware of this, but PC gamers with RDNA-based GPUs in their graphics cards share quite a lot in common with anyone who has a PlayStation 5 or PS5 Pro. That’s because there are quite a few architectural features common to both. However, while only RDNA 4 users officially get FSR…

Read More

Until Dawn’s 5-step Formula for Successful Scares

Admission: I’m a bona-fide horror nut. I love it. Can’t get enough. You name it, I’ll watch it: past-their-sell-by-date franchise sequels, grotty Eastern European video nasties, creepy found-footage indies, cliché-ridden teen slashers, and everything in between. So, PS4-exclusive interactive horror Until Dawn is right up my alley. Duly, last month I sat down with Jez…

Read More

Discussion time: Most big MMOs are seasonal now—do you prefer it that way, or do you loathe the FOMO checklist?

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. One…

Read More

Review: The Lord Of The Rings: War In The North – Legacy Edition (Switch 2) – A Middling Return To Middle-Earth

Orcs and trolls galore. In today’s world of expiring rights deals and IP constantly changing hands, it’s an unfortunate reality that many licensed games are doomed to forever languish in the gaming world of yesteryear. That’s what makes moments like the return of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game or the remastered SpongeBob SquarePants:…

Read More