Atari brings the computer age home. Again! Welcome back to the Atari 8-bit world of computing! The powerful Atari 400 set a new standard of capability with its release in 1979, and along with its subsequent models, has been loved by gamers and computer enthusiasts for decades. Now Retro Games and Atari have collaborated to…
Grand Theft Auto 3’s Ghost City was my first proper experience of community discovery. I was too young to fully appreciate game-breaking in the likes of Super Mario and Alex Kidd, so the idea of flying the clipped-wing Dodo aircraft from the runway of Frances International Airport at a very specific angle in order to…
Terminally Online This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG 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. My credentials? Well, I’ve…
When you work in an industry as close-knit as independent VR game development, you often find yourself with the chance to collaborate with some very cool, very talented people. For Archiact, that opportunity came in the form of a partnership with E McNeill and his award-winning puzzle game, Darknet. Together, we’ll be bringing the hacker…
It may not hit for infinite damage, but this new necromancer build in Diablo 4 has infinite bullets, and that’s close enough. The whole build involves pressing a single button to fire off bone splinters in every direction. No enemy is safe from the barrage of projectiles that cover the entire screen and hit for…
More information has emerged today regarding Fire Emblem: Three Houses downloadable content Cindered Shadows. The DLC is due out on the Nintendo Switch eShop tomorrow as part of the Fire Emblem: Three Houses Season Pass. The DLC is estimated to be a meaty 8-10 hours long and more difficult than the base game. Here’s what…
When a big old tree talks, I listen. He said, “I have a task of great importance,” as soon as I opened my eyes, and who was I to turn him down? “Take this note to the King, it should be a short quest,” he instructed, and although there is no king in the playtest…
This is April 2, which means April Fool’s is over and we can put the whole thing behind us until 2027. Except, well, this was just now brought to my attention, and I must insist you bear witness to it. Because this is The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical. “Experience Warhammer like you’ve never…
Maika Monroe fans, unite. Capcom has released a new live-action short as part of its marketing campaign for Resident Evil Requiem, and it’s a banger. Starring Maika Monroe (It Follows, Longlegs) as a doting mother caught in the midst of the Raccoon City outbreak, the short effortlessly captures the frantic panic that ensues when the…
Secret weapon. Secret of Mana (or Seiken Densetsu 2, if you prefer) is one of those games that, when I think back to my first time playing it, felt like it arrived at a pivotal moment in my gaming history. That is because the day in early 1995 I bought a copy (pre-owned from a…