When Telltale Games came to a messy end, it seemed like the end of the line for that particular style of episodic modern choice-and-consequence adventure game. In retrospect, Life is Strange looked like a blip, a one-hit wonder whose success wasn’t repeated by any of its spin-offs or follow-ups. No amount of editorials about why…
Papers, Please, first released in 2013, was among the vanguard of indie games that felt like they had something to say, turning the simple act of processing paperwork into a pointed commentary on the political brutality of immigration. It was set in a fictional Soviet-esque country in 1982, which creator Lucas Pope used to amplify…
Ready for another bleak application of generative AI? I’m not sure I am, but here we are with Gemini’s ‘Nano Banana’. Alright, alright, get it out of your system and let me explain. The aforementioned fun-size fruit is in fact the name of a major update to Gemini’s AI image generation capabilities. The update is…
We recently sat down for a PlayStation Underground play session through a segment of Trials of Mana — an exciting new action RPG that launches April 24. You might not be aware, but the game’s a full remake of a classic 1995 RPG that originally released exclusively in Japan — Seiken Densetsu 3. The new…
Making a move for mobile Intel last week had already given the heads up that it was rebranding its Atom processors into three performance tiers — Atom x3, Atom x5, and Atom x7. The Santa Clara chip maker didn’t provide any details at the time, leading us to speculate that the first new Atom parts…
Featuring music from Grant Kirkhope. Cast your mind back to November 2023. We reported on a pretty sweet new racing game simply titled Star Racer. Showcased on Kickstarter at the time, a Switch release was included as a stretch goal, and now it’s finally on the way. Launching Q3 2026 for the Switch, Star Racer…
A player has achieved the fastest-ever death in Portal thanks to some questionable physics and a cup. “I surprisingly got this pretty quickly,” says Pr0tal, “I am now the king of dying in Portal!” The previous record for the Death% speedrun had stood at 1.3 seconds but Pr0tal smashed this, managing to kill themselves in…
The game industry has suffered yet another round of layoffs, as Ubisoft confirms that it has cut 124 employees worldwide as part of an ongoing restructuring effort. The bulk of that number, 98 in total, were let go from Ubisoft’s business administrative services and IT in Canada, as well as the Hybride VFX studio in…
This month PC Gamer delivers world-exclusive access to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the stunning new dark fantasy RPG from Sandfall Interactive. For this special cover story, PC Gamer speaks directly with the game’s developers, gets a detailed insider look at the game in action, and delivers a feature covering everything you need to know about…
Despite the success of Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online hasn’t quite lived up to its potential since bolting from the bounds of beta in mid-2019. That’s not to say it isn’t a good game. With the right mix of players on any populated server, Rockstar’s multiplayer cowboy crime sim is still up there…