Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up…
Blood Typers was one of my favourite indie picks of last month. A clever fusion of classic Resident Evil and The Typing Of The Dead with a little bit of proximity chat co-op chaos for spice. But much as I liked it, something was missing—an ending. Despite not carrying any early access labelling, the game…
Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. Despite my experience with League of Legends (the videogame) being incredibly minimal, I’ve spent years in admiration…
In Skully, players will visit a lush island paradise virtually untouched by mankind. Sweeping vistas, active volcanoes, and expansive mountain ranges are in great abundance, though the sanctity of this peaceful place is at risk of being destroyed due to an ongoing familial conflict between the four elemental beings that oversee the island. Unable to…
The closure of BioWare and layoff of roughly 400 people at Electronic Arts is being rightly excoriated as an example of the corrosive effects of capital on pretty much everything good. But that same sort of thing happens, maybe more often than we’d like to think, on smaller scales, too. Case in point: Gamepires, creator…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it’s “mindblowing” that people aren’t more impressed with generative AI tools. “Jeez there so many cynics!” wrote Suleyman on X this week. “It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that…
I’ve been living on a beta version of Dune: Awakening’s Arrakis for the last couple weeks, and despite the game being just over a month away from launch, there were some pretty big limitations on how much I could settle into desert life. Only low-level crafting was available, and just three of the first map’s…
Biohazard The Stories was originally released back in 2004. A “lost” demo for a Japan-exclusive Resident Evil mobile game has been dumped online, by a group of feature phone preservationists. Biohazard: The Stories is an obscure piece of Resident Evil history that we’re assuming most Western fans of the series won’t be too familiar with…
PlayStation App lets you stay connected to your PlayStation 4 experience wherever you go, and today it is being updated with a completely new design, providing you with a more intuitive and smoother experience to stay connected to your friends and the games you love to play. A change you’ll notice when you boot up…
Have you played Silksong? No no no, I don’t mean that rank imitation that passes for Silksong today. I mean original Silksong, purestrain Silksong, pre-patch Silksong. Everyone knows Silksong’s patch one—the game’s “first major patch”—which hit yesterday, really just fouled it all up. It made things too easy. It turned our beloved Silksong into, well,…