Amazon really confounded us all last month when, following the successful launch of 007 First Light, Amazon Gaming general manager Jeff Gattis mused that sequels would be “done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios.” Given that so many people—barring one uncontroversial and universally beloved PC Gamer writer—rather liked IOI’s Bond game, it was…
Despite being the most-hyped thing at Gamescom last year, topping Steam wishlists and raking in nearly 1.4 million concurrent players shortly after launch, Monster Hunter Wilds is struggling to pull in the sales even compared to its four-year-old predecessor. As reported by Eurogamer, Capcom published its most recent financial report earlier this week covering the…
Founded around 12 years ago in Germany, Thermal Grizzly has grown to become perhaps the name associated with cooling products for overclocked, high performance PC hardware. Co-partnered by Roman Hartung (aka der8auer), it’s never been one to shy away from trying all kinds of things to squeeze a little more from one’s gaming rig, and…
This month, descend into the criminal underworld of early 20th-century Sicily in Mafia: The Old Country, brave a deadly frontier filled with awe-inspiring machines in Horizon Forbidden West, or take on hordes of fungal enemies with an outrageous arsenal of futuristic weaponry in the fast-paced co-op action Mycopunk, releasing day one into October’s PlayStation Plus…
Fatality! In 1992, there were few games bigger than Midway’s fatality-fueled arcade fighting game Mortal Kombat, so it only made sense that someone would eventually take on the challenge of bringing the popular experience to consoles, in the pursuit of profits. The New York-based publisher Acclaim Entertainment would eventually accept this responsibility, teaming up with…
The official Japanese Pokemon account has tweeted that the first downloadable content pack for Pokemon Sword & Shield, which is titled Isle of Armor, will be arriving on Wednesday, 17th June. This is the first part of the Expansion Pass which includes two downloadable content packs, The Isle of Amor and The Crown Tundra. Now…
“I would have been shaking in my boots if I had known how significant it all was”. Nintendo is one of the most recognisable companies in the world today, and characters such as Mario and Donkey Kong are known to millions of people worldwide. However, had the company lost a vital court case back in…
Hello, everyone! Things move fast with Final Fantasy XIV, and we’ve already arrived at Patch 3.2, which will be hitting the servers of our critically acclaimed MMO in less than two weeks. More and more content is flowing into the game, but what’s great for our experienced players can be confusing for beginners, who may…
If the reams of art and lovelorn fanfiction are anything to go by, Baldur’s Gate 3’s romance system was one of its most successful parts. Keep, Larian, your remarkably complex imsim-y RPG gameplay; we just want to kiss vampires. But did you know that, in the fantasies of BG3’s writers, it would have been possible…
It’s my understanding that, for some reason, people keep making ARPGs. This befogs me. As a people, we really kind of hit the nail on the head with Diablo 1. Do we need more? More enemies? More loot? More graphics? Of course not. We only need more ways to play Diablo 1 on more and…