After serving as a composer on the original Deus Ex, and contributing some voices, Alexander Brandon was made audio director on its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War. The second game in the series has long been divisive, and was Brandon’s first time as an audio director. As he told PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon in a…
“Thank you for playing”. Bethesda’s free-to-play mobile title The Elder Scrolls: Blades will be shutting down later this year across all platforms including the Switch eShop. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Mass Effect Legendary Edition’s photo mode was a constant temptation, pulling me away from dramatic moments to check how they’d look with vignetting turned off and maybe a filter. So I’m kind of glad I finished Resident Evil Requiem before its photo mode was patched in. Firing it up today, I lost a chunk of…
If Baldur’s Gate 3 is the game to recommend to your friends who aren’t into RPGs, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is the pinnacle of freaking out the normies. This game embraces and celebrates the stinky, crusty, CRPG weirdness Larian (understandably) left behind. Semi-permanent status ailments, save-or-die spells, fear effects that send your party running…
Greg Foertsch, creative director on the upcoming Star Wars Zero Company, gave his take on the resurgence of crustier PC gaming genres like RTS and turn-based tactics over the last decade in a recent interview with PCG associate editor Ted Litchfield. He also explained why he thinks there was such a long fallow period for…
It’s only Saturday afternoon, so there’s still time for you to be at your most disappointed this week. CRPG magnate Owlcat recently reiterated that its upcoming action RPG, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, is making use of generative AI in its development—though the studio is trying to assure players it’s not a big deal. As PR…
There’s a new Mechabellum season, which means I can get onto my tiny soapbox and beat my “PLAY MECHABELLUM” drum. Mechabellum is a 1v1 (and occasionally 2v2 or even 1v1v1v1) autobattler where you slap down giant mechs and then make them fight each other. It is probably one of the best strategy games I’ve ever…
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 and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Whenever I need a reminder of how long I’ve been impatiently waiting for the next mainline Elder Scrolls game, I think back to how excited I got when I first heard the premise for The Elder Scrolls: Blades. A dungeon crawling, town-building spinoff with roguelike and PvP modes? Count me in, right up until I…
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has suffered a legal defeat over children’s safety on its platforms.d. Last week, a New Mexico jury decided against the company in a lawsuit brought by state prosecutors after an undercover investigation by the state. As reported by the Associated Press, the trial went on for seven weeks, with…