An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'

An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena ‘was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game’

Here at PCG towers, we’ve recently been sorting through some of our old treasure hoard of magazine issues, including interviews with many of the industry’s leading figures. One that recently jumped out to me was a 2008 interview with John Carmack, at which time he was still at id Software, around the launch of Quake…

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Shadow the Hedgehog is in the next Sonic movie and all I can think about now is which Hollywood tough guy will voice him

After literal decades of middling-to-terrible 3D Sonic games, it seemed like an actual honest-to-god miracle that the Sonic movie and its sequel were so successful. Both movies got largely positive reviews, were praised for the performances of Ben Schwartz as Sonic and Jim Carrey as Robotnik, and made $300 million and $400 million, respectively. I…

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MSI announces the ‘most powerful gaming laptop on the planet’ in the form of the 300 W RTX 5090 Raider 16 Max HX

The PC gaming industry is now essentially a repeating cycle of product announcements generating an excitable ‘ooh’ followed immediately by a sigh of recognition: this isn’t for me. Case in point is my reaction upon hearing about the “most powerful gaming laptop on the planet”—‘ooh!’—followed by the immediate dual recognition that this will be very…

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