PC Gamer’s resident Call of Duty officer Morgan Park had some thoughts when Call of Duty HQ debuted in 2023, and I’m just going to let him speak for himself here: “Call of Duty’s new stupid launcher is a data management nightmare, and it may get worse with Modern Warfare 3.” No, come on Morgan,…
Hideo Kojima sure has been thinking about death a lot lately. Though he’s a pretty spritely 62 years old, the Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator has made our pages recently for things like: talking about deciding to make Physint after a brush with death in 2020, making a game where you get old and…
Bit Reactor’s long-rumored Star wars tactics game, Zero Company, finally got a formal reveal last year, but we still didn’t know many details about this Clone Wars-era black ops story—until now. I got about 4.5 hours of hands-on time with Zero Company, plus several interviews with the dev team—you can read my full write up…
Last month, a game called Shrimp Game: Krill Confirmed launched on Steam. It’s a self-contained demo for the upcoming shrimp game, Shrimp Game, and as a game about shrimp it has all the features you’d expect: You can pilot one of 11 weaponized combat shrimp-forms, imbue them with a cocktail of violent elemental powers, and…
It’s been… kind of a weird year for games, all in all. We’ve had lots of amazing surprises: Dave the Diver surfaced out of nowhere to steal our hearts, Cyberpunk 2077 completed its redemption arc with a flourish, and of course Baldur’s Gate 3 smashed even our already sky high expectations. But it’s also been…
Blames Star Wars for poor performance thus far… Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot, has been answering questions during a recent general meeting about Star Wars Outlaws, which has struggled thus far to live up to expectations, with rather poor sales figures overall. Now, ask this writer and he’ll tell you that Star Wars Outlaws is a…
Alienware, Dell’s gaming sub-brand that will be celebrating its 30th birthday in October, has unveiled two rather lovely OLED gaming monitors that both feature LG’s tandem OLED tech delivering better than ever brightness. Most recently, our Jeremy was impressed by another tandem OLED from Alienware, and offers a breakdown of what it is in his…
Bring in the New Year with some speedrunning. If you’re looking for a way to fill in the hours between now and the New Year, why not jump on Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. Nintendo has just sent its final competition (and first one of 2025) live. The current challenges will test your skills in…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Alan Wake 2 appeared so late last year that you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was a 2024 launch. You’d also be forgiven for believing that its outstanding visual design and…
Infinity Ward got support from Digital Legends. Call of Duty is making its return to Nintendo platforms after 13 years this October, and Activision has revealed the developer who helped with the Switch 2 version of Modern Warfare 4. Infinity Ward called on Activision’s partners at Digital Legends. The Spanish-based studio, which started out as…