8-player split-screen? C’mon. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe just recently joined Pikmin 3 Deluxe in receiving a rather tantalising free update to make it look much better when played on the Switch 2. If you’re curious to see just how much an improvement you can expect, our lovely video producer Alex has booted it up and…
Last month was filled with superhero spectacles, bonding with friends, and a few heavy hitters! Some big new releases included MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, Big Walk, Beast of Reincarnation, and Madden NFL 27. Which game was your favorite? How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where…
One of the significant differences between most historical Total Wars and the Warhammer games is that the factions aren’t comparable with nations. In Total War: Warhammer 40,000, the Space Marines and Astra Militarum, for instance, are effectively two branches of the same military. So when I was playing Total War 40k at Gamescom as the…
I played an hour of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn at Gamescom, and despite doing it in a sweltering room with a dev judging me for every death, I came away pretty impressed. It deserves to stand on its own merits, but unfortunately I am about to talk about Mass Effect quite a lot—it’s hard not…
SteamDB is an excellent resource—as someone who occasionally has to pull up a game’s concurrent numbers or pricing to make a point, I’d be lying if I said I haven’t used it in a professional capacity. What’s been more staggering is its status as a site run entirely on donations. Well, that’s ending soon. The…
Literary adaptations give us a direct way to step inside a story world. Playing through video games based on books lets us walk through settings we previously only imagined, giving control over movement, combat, dialogue, and sometimes the direction of the story itself. That added agency makes games especially interesting adaptations. You do not simply…
The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct is back September 20, and PC Gamer is happy to announce the fantastic Frankie Ward will be hosting, making it her second PC Gaming Show of the year. Frankie is a host and presenter with years of experience. She won presenter of the year at the 2018 inaugural UK…
And what we can do about it when we spot it. Breath of the Wild was one of my first video games after an unintentional gaming hiatus (#adulting, sigh). I was good at it—some of it, at least, things like exploring the map, completing side quests, and flurry rushing enemies. But getting the bonus treasure…
Those noses have never looked sharper. When Virtua Fighter smashed its way onto the arcade scene in 1993, it caused a helluva ruckus. Sega’s one-on-one fighter launched slap-bang in the middle of the fighting game explosion, with titles such as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Fatal Fury already gobbling up the quarters in arcade centres…
Persona 5 was so damn successful, it’s unsurprising that Atlus has spent the years since A) milking the hell out of it and B) using its incredibly stylish visuals as a template to remake the other two games in its modern trilogy. Persona 3 Reload was the first utilisation of that template, and now we’re…