Secret Level This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 387 in August 2023, as part of our Secret Level series. Every month we talk to the unsung heroes of games development, and explore what makes their roles vital. Noah Lone (AKA somehumbleonion) studied computer science at college… and hated it. Until his final…
Prior to the release of Helldivers 2, soundtrack composer Wilbert Roget was considering moving on from writing orchestral music for games, he recently posted. The overwhelming community response to the soundtrack, however, has renewed his faith in orchestral composition for games. “Before Helldivers 2 came out I considered moving on from writing orchestral game music—it…
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix for the Nintendo Switch system will presumably be getting additional content fairly soon as SEGA has announced today that they will be hosting a special live stream event for the game on Wednesday, 17th June at 8pm JST. The event, which is titled Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix…
Greetings Warriors! We here on the For Honor community team are thrilled our game is taking part in this month’s PS Plus program, which will open the gates for hordes of new recruits to enter our unique battlefields. Your For Honor experience can be whatever you make of it, whether you want to spend your…
“The domestic video game market is clearly losing steam”. Last year, while working on a feature about the Making of Mario Artist: Paint Studio, we contacted the Japanese-to-English translator Liz Bushouse to help translate some materials related to the 64DD — Nintendo’s Japan-only peripheral for the N64 that allowed players to use 64MB magnetic disks…
Thanks to the interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin. Earlier this month, a bunch of source code for Infocom’s code-porting tools was finally preserved online, thanks to the efforts of influential interactive fiction designer and industry figure Andrew Plotkin (cheers Ars Technica for the spot!). This comes four years after the internet archivist Jason Scott published…
The PlayStation Store charts for August 2015 were owned by the launch of Madden NFL 16 on PS4, but we also saw the debuts of instant favorites like Until Dawn and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. You might be surprised to learn that Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist took the runner-up spot on the PS4…
Dive into a whimsical dungeon-crawling adventure with the help of your Snacks and comrades to overcome the evil Sultan Vinegar and his horde of enemies. But will the bothersome mechanics and lack of variety stop Level-5’s Snack World franchise from winning over Western audiences? Ask any of your gaming friends about developer Level-5 and you’ll…
Not a moment too soon, AMD has finally put a release date on the much anticipated Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs. They go on sale in March. Yeah, just March, no specific day in March has yet been indentified by AMD. Still, cue much rejoicing from gamers after a high-value graphics card, right?…