In the interest of complete transparency, it must be expressly understood that my adoration for The Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) knows no bounds. THE @!#?@! MAKING OF THE ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD 8-BIT How i learned to @!#?@! love the nerd Created by YouTuber and video game aficionado James Rolfe, the AVGN name is…
Though the memory crisis has proven to be a thorn in the side of most major businesses, the scarcity has led to a lot of interest in manufacturer SK hynix. It seems companies are lining up at its doors in search of contracts, and the world’s second-largest memory maker is unable to meet demand. As…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Hard to believe, but Fallout Season 2 starts next week! That sounds like the perfect excuse to brush up on…
“They had an early draft of a Resident Evil movie from Romero, but it was not good”. Over the years, the Resident Evil series has inspired a large number of films, and even a Netflix TV show, with the latest news being that the series is set for another adaptation from Zach Cregger (the director…
“The Mega Drive is my favourite console of all time”. The Mega Drive / Genesis certainly hasn’t been short of new software recently, which is remarkable for the console that saw its debut all the way back in 1988. However, few modern projects for Sega’s 16-bit system have generated the frenzied level of interest that…
We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: thank you to all the players in the PlayStation Nation who were the first to play our Call of Duty: Black Ops III Multiplayer Beta! Preparing for the Beta required a lot of work — basically, it was a launch-before-the-launch — but we all knew that it…
Legacy carts could be put back into production, hints Blaze CEO. The Evercade ecosystem is one of the most appealing of any in the modern retro-gaming space, thanks to its wide-ranging selection of cartridges, each packed with classic titles. However, Evercade maker Blaze has to deal with the realities of physical distribution and software licensing,…
Last week, we asked you to share portraits of Deacon St. John from Days Gone Remastered using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Evo_Pixel shares Deacon standing holding a shotgun MdeavorVP shares a side profile of Deacon with a red light flare blackcatvp Deacon seated on his motorcycle robsbakk shares Deacon wielding a shotgun…
You could say it’s off to a good start, then. The Switch 2 is off to an amazing start all over the world, but in Japan, its success has been especially remarkable; it’s already the fastest-selling console in the nation’s history, outperforming even the mighty PS2. With 947,931 consoles sold at launch, the Switch 2…
Since the series’ earliest days on the humble MSX, one of the big inspirations behind Metal Gear has been John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. Protagonist Solid Snake gets his callsign from Kurt Russell’s character Snake Plissken (a link that would later be solidified when Snake uses the codename Plisken in MGS2), as well as…