Ben Porter, director at the consultancy firm NewZoo, is giving a GDC talk this week that picks out some highlights from the firm’s annual look at the state of the games industry. PC Gamer was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at his slides, and one of the takeaways is that PC gaming is…
I gotta hand this one to the suits: I thought gamers might find a $60 price tag on a rehash of a 13-year-old Assassin’s Creed game to be a bit much, and apparently I was wrong. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced sold more than two million copies in just one day, and has handily surpassed…
One of the hallmarks of the James Bond film franchise are its theme songs, which are typically performed by a big-name artist or band. That’s also true of IO Interactive’s upcoming Bond game 007 First Light, which has served up a surprise release of its own very Bond-like theme song, First Light, performed by popular…
The critically acclaimed RPG Disco Elysium is currently being developed for the Nintendo Switch system. The news was revealed today by Disco Elysium’s art director Aleksander Rostov on a BBC video game podcast titled, Game On. Here’s what was said: “This interview is, at this very moment, interrupting me from writing up design documentation for…
Arc Raiders is a live-service shooter, and you know what that means—skin discourse, hooray! In all seriousness, since everything became Fortnite, it’s been a real consideration. As PCG’s own Morgan Park put it in 2023, “Cosmetic Uglification is a viral affliction infecting the best shooters of our time”, and he’s not been proven wrong since….
A month after Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees, cancelled multiple game projects, and closed The Initiative, Avalanche Studios says work on its 1970s-themed smuggling sim Contraband—which was being developed in partnership with Xbox—has been halted. “Over the past several years, Avalanche Studios Group and Xbox Game Studios Publishing have collaborated on Contraband,” Avalanche wrote. “Active…
Category: Announcements March 11, 2026 From GDC: Building the Next Generation of Xbox Jason Ronald, Vice President of Next Generation, Xbox This is a summary of my Xbox Developer Summit keynote address, delivered March 11 at the 2026 Game Developer Conference Summary Our team is deep in development on our next generation Xbox console, Project Helix. We are pushing…
A new Tangrowth. We all need a little bit of lightness in the world at the moment, right? Pokémon Pokopia has been providing a lot of people that on Switch 2, but if you’re out and about in London between now and 30th September, there’s another way you can get some adorable Pokémon goodness in…
Light on your bonce, but definitely not a lightweight offering. With a little tweak in the G Hub software, the sound from these cans really sings. Couple that with an excellent microphone, and there are few bum notes here—save for the software. Key specs: 40 mm Pro-G Drivers | 20 Hz-20,000 Hz | Closed-back |…
Starting today, the Red Dead Online Beta is open to everyone who owns Red Dead Redemption 2 on PlayStation 4, jump in now to experience the vast and deeply detailed landscapes, cities, towns and habitats of Red Dead Redemption 2 in a new, living online world ready to be shared by multiple players. Built from…