Can you identify these iconic PC games from just a piece of concept art?

Can you identify these iconic PC games from just a piece of concept art?

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. There’s something magical about videogame concept art, isn’t there? Somehow it always looks better than the final product—more atmospheric, more…

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Embark CEO says ‘a real professional actor is better than AI’ after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans

Arc Raiders has proven to be a big hit and showed that the extraction shooter had legs for a more casual crowd, but like The Finals before it, it’s drawn negative attention for its use of AI voices. In a new interview, Embark CEO and Nexon executive chairman Patrick Söderlund told GamesIndustry.biz that the studio…

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‘Even though I threw out my back from overworking, I’m feeling high in spirits’: Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies in its first week

It can be tricky to pull off a sequel, especially when you’re talking about a sequel to one of the most celebrated deckbuilding roguelikes around. Slay the Spire 2 might be the result of a coin flip, but it sure seems to be resonating—a Steam community blog post from developer Mega Crit has served up…

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Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry director: ‘We redo too much stuff’

Do you remember Far Cry Primal? Ubisoft’s prehistoric spinoff was pitched as an intriguing departure from the formula, in which players would leave their jeeps and helicopters behind to embrace life at the dawn of the Mesolithic period. They would tread lightly between the Carpathian mountains, taking down saber-toothed cats as a club-wielding tribesman with…

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My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: ‘We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC’

Not everyone wants a black box desktop. Yes, a bit of RGB lighting certainly perks up the samey cuboid silhouette of a gaming rig, but what about those of us who want something with just a bit more personality? Something—dare I say it—a wee bit Extra? How about a 3D printed cathedral kit that magnetically…

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“That’s My Fault” – If This Elder Scrolls’ Dungeon Made You Want To “Tear Your Eyes Out”, Here’s Who To Blame

“That initial dungeon, the very first one you start the game in, that was mine.”. If you’ve ever attempted to play The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, you’ll know that it doesn’t exactly get off to the easiest of starts. Dumped into the tutorial dungeon, it’s not uncommon for players to round the first set of…

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The creator of Stephen’s Sausage Roll has released a new puzzle-platformer where you play as an egg, in the latest example of a developer fallen to the sunny side

Late last year, I wrote about a bizarre moment when game developers suddenly became obsessed with eggs for some reason. Then everybody pointed out all the games about eggs that I didn’t mention in the article, as if the goal was to create an exhaustive list of egg-based games and not observe a general trend….

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