Out today! D4Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE reissue of the PC-9801 version of Puyo Puyo is back on the Nintendo Switch eShop in Japan, a year after being removed from sale. The Japanese publisher originally reissued the Compile-developed puzzler last year, on August 28th, 2025, but quickly pulled it from sale for undisclosed reasons at the same time…
Arriving “later this summer” on Switch 2. The famous fictional spy James Bond will embark on a new mission later this month. Although it’s been shaken by a delay on the Switch 2, the latest round of previews for other platforms still has us excited. If you haven’t already seen it, we’ve got a full…
FromSoftserve on YouTube posted a preview of his upcoming Dark Souls 3 lighting engine mod on July 6, showcasing an in-depth look at DS3 re-imagined with vastly improved lighting and textures. FromSoftserve’s mod is built on top of the DS3LightingEngine, which allows for deep customization of light mechanics. DS3LightingEngine is also a work in progress,…
In news that will have you thanking your local deity of choice, in this the year 2025, retailers are listing a GPU at below MSRP. It’s probably not a card most PC gamers are after, but several RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPUs listings have been spotted where the card is actually cheaper than what the…
The beautiful, mysterious platformer Europa has been at the back of my mind ever since I saw one of its trailers, so I was excited to try its first public demo available on Steam. The game seems to offer a more meditative, relaxed take on the exploration-heavy 3D platformers of the ’90s, and I’m more…
For a very brief period before becoming PC Gamer’s weekend newshound, I wrote a newsletter dedicated to rounding up the best Steam demos of any given week. By far and away the best demo I played during those days was for a little game called Sektori. If you haven’t heard of Sektori, it’s a geometric…
In 1996, id Software smashed through to another dimension – in one sense of the word, pioneering first-person shooters in the third dimension with the release of Quake, and in another, hurtling players feet-first into Quake’s otherworldly realm – a place beyond our reality where kinetic combat and a moody eldritch setting took FPS players…
But he’ll always give Pikmin the spotlight. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie goes beyond the Mushroom Kingdom and introduces a whole new cast of characters. As we now know, there’ll also be some faces that aren’t even from this particular Nintendo universe. It’s led to discussion once again about a possible “Smash Bros.-style Nintendo Cinematic…
Mega-mod Skyblivion—the one that remakes The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the swish new Skyrim: Special Edition engine—is set to release in a matter of months after over a decade of work. The news around this has been, on the whole, quite positive. The trailers look good, its dungeons are meant to be better, and…
CES 2024 is starting to wrap up, and the big announcements have turned from a torrent into a trickle. What better time than now then, we thought, to have a look back at the themes of the show as a whole. Pretty easy this year we’ll admit, as unless you’ve been living under a particularly…