I liked Doom: The Dark Ages when it arrived last year, but I really ought to have loved it. The first two Dooms of id’s modern trilogy are generationally great FPS campaigns with unmatched action, memorable guns, and late-game fights that will grind your teeth down to the gums. They successfully reestablished Doom around speed,…
First reported by Japanese site GameWatch and translated by Automaton, Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto revealed a surprising demand placed on Silent Hill f’s scenario (or story) team: Read a ton of books. Okamoto spoke in a lecture at Japan’s CEDEC 2026—that’s “CESA Developer’s Conference” longwise, or “Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association Developer’s Conference” extra longwise….
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Ted, and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the Vatican pirated Football…
Konami’s 2D action-exploration game arrives this October. Earlier this month, Konami announced Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse would be launching for the original Switch at the same time as other versions on 15th October 2026. Now, Konami’s Castlevania website has revealed a little more information about this particular build, confirming the Switch version will run at 30fps….
Final Fantasy is very much a theme park for the series. It regularly references other games or weaves their themes into the very fabric of Eorzea and beyond. Occasionally, it straight-up implants entire characters or plots. Despite all that, it’s done surprisingly very little with the series’ golden goose: Final Fantasy 7. Sure, there’s the…
A CRPG in the vein of Baldur’s Gate without a bird’s-eye view camera sure sounds wrong, but it feels so right. If you’re looking for something a little more Dragon Age and less Divinity for your next replay, Modder Relysia has gone and stuck an over-the-shoulder third-person camera in Baldur’s Gate 3, uploading it to…
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. This…
Pre-orders are now live. Earlier this year, Square Enix announced Final Fantasy XIV Online would be making its way to the Switch 2 in August. Now, in an update, it has confirmed its MMORPG will be launching for Nintendo’s new hybrid system on 4th August 2026. Adding to this is the news pre-orders are going…
“That was really a changing point at the company”. With the recent revelation of a new A Nightmare on Elm Street from Paramount Pictures, we felt it appropriate to examine the video games based on the property. There have been a few examples, including a cameo by Freddy Krueger in Mortal Kombat, and a DOS…
Jedi are a key ingredient in most Star Wars adventures, but a little bit of a Jedi also goes a long way. Put too many Jedi in your Star War and you end up with an Attack of the Clones or a post-New Game Enhancements Star Wars: Galaxies—the magic and mysticism of those berobed space…