Break out the lute, because Manor Lords was our favourite city builder of the year. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Elie Gould, News Writer: Manor Lords came out at just the right time for me. Before landing on this medieval city builder/management game, I played quite a few…
Halloween is almost upon us, and if you’re looking for some suitably spooky videogame fun then allow me to direct your attention to Playable Archive, a free “micro psychological horror experience” from Darkstone Digital, the solo studio behind The Mortuary Assistant. As you might expect, given the title, Playable Archive bears a number of similarities…
On June 13, 2025, Israel launched surprise airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure. The initial strikes killed several Iranian nuclear scientists and high-ranking military officials, while the number of civilian casualties remain unconfirmed (estimates vary between 300-600 depending on the source), with many more hundreds injured. Iran vowed a “crushing response,” retaliating by firing…
Green Beans. Howdy, hoopers! Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl. Before we check up for this week’s one-on-one, let’s remind ourselves what went down last time. It was an East vs West battle, as we matched up two covers from the GameCube’s Tales of Symphonia. Alas, it was not a close one. The…
Asha Sharma’s elevation to CEO of Microsoft Gaming following Phil Spencer’s surprise retirement caused consternation among some gamers because, well, she’s not a gamer. Sharma only joined Microsoft in 2024 as president of its CoreAI product, and prior to that she was chief operating officer at Instacart and a vice president of product and engineering…
While we will get to choose the clan and gender of our player-character in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, it’s apparently not going to be a full “how many skill points do I want to put into Security” kind of character creation—a revelation that’s set a few fans on edge. Narrative director Ian Thomas…
New Line has screenwriters Ben Zazove and Evan Turner involved. The trend of using video games as the foundational basis for big-budget movies continues unabated. In recent years, we’ve seen films inspired by Mario, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and even Tetris, and now it’s the turn of Taito’s iconic 1978 shmup, Space Invaders. According to…
Here’s something you don’t see every day. A chance to play Destiny against a Grammy Award-winning band — Imagine Dragons! This special day is happening this Saturday, February 7th, from 12:00pm until 2:00pm Pacific Time. Connect to multiplayer at the appointed time and, if The Speaker smiles upon you, you’ll find yourself in an epic…
Former PC Gamer writers have gone on to do amazing things: Pen Star Wars movies, sell millions of extremely good videogames, and, maybe, save the internet? I exaggerate slightly, but tech writer Corbin Davenport released a tool last week called Just the Browser that offers the faintest glimmer of light in this AI abyss we…
Get your starting at $955 We first spied CyberPower PC’s funktastically designed Trinity gaming PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. Back then, Trinity was in the prototype stage, and all too often we’ve seen such things turn to vaporware. Not this time. CyberPower today announced that its Trinity PC…