Od’s Tower is being built as “a love-letter” to the freeware game Tower of the Sorcerer. A promising new indie game is currently in development for the PC that pays tribute to Tower of the Sorcerer (or Magic Tower as it is known in Japan) — an influential piece of freeware for the NEC PC-98…
All of us in the hardware team at PC Gamer love a good handheld gaming PC, be it a Valve Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally X, or an MSI Claw 8 AI. Whether you want long-life portable playability or outright performance, there’s something for everyone in the market. Nearly all of them use an AMD…
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: Stern Pinball’s Silverball: While Chicago might have the bean….we have the ball. Stern Pinball Cup: Compete against players worldwide in an exciting series of week-long pinball races. It’s not about…
“The last remaining *official* way to play SOR1 online with a friend”. Nintendo recently updated the Mega Drive / Genesis portion of its Nintendo Switch Online offering, bringing three new games: Streets of Rage, Super Thunder Blade, and ESWAT: City Under Siege. As spotted by Gaming Hell on BlueSky, the addition of Streets of Rage…
Thunderbird 4 vibes. The Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on experience is already in full swing, giving those lucky enough to attend the chance to play through a handful of new games coming to the system. As you might expect, Mario Kart World is one such title and, while seeing what the racer has to offer, fans…
With a whole three seconds of footage, this month’s Nintendo Direct put a new release window on Hollow Knight: Silksong: 2025. The game has blown past announced release windows before, of course, but this does feel a bit more concrete—brief though the appearance was, this was still Nintendo announcing the lineup for its brand new…
On Friday, the Trump administration exempted smartphones and a load of other computing related hardware from the monstrous 145% tariffs being applied to goods from China. But by Sunday, the President already seemed to be winding back on the winding back, explaining on Truth Social that there were no exemptions, it’s just those product classes…
Citizens from several Silicon Valley communities have been capturing videos of crosswalk buttons that appear to have been hacked in an unusual way. Rather than the usual messages warning about traffic safety, the buttons instead appear to play satirical messages from Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg soundalikes. One Zuckerberg-a-like infected crosswalk reportedly told would-be traffic…
There’s been a ton of updates for Marvel Rivals Season 2. Emma Frost is the new Vanguard, there are new team-up abilities, and there’s a new experimental feature to help ease performance issues. But it seems like there are more enhancements going around, as players have now fixated on Magik and Psylocke’s new costumes, which…
Blue Prince, a mind-bending mix of roguelike, deckbuilder, and puzzler—one where you draft the rooms of an enormous mansion and assemble them piece-by-piece, to be slotted together like riddle LEGO—has been claiming the minds of PC Gamer’s more intellectually inclined staff. I’ve yet to give it a go myself, but it really does seem like…