The original Crazy Taxi last appeared at AGDQ 2015. Over the weekend, a Crazy Taxi speedrunner performed with a live band at Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 as a creative to avoid copyright issues with the game’s licensed music (h/t: VGC). Crazy Taxi, as you may already know, is a game that debuted in the…
If I had a nickel for every time a recently-released live service third-person shooter gained hundreds of thousands of players at the start of the year, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice. As the headline suggests, Marvel Rivals is doing very well for itself—garnering a whopping…
It’s been 12 years since the announcement of Star Citizen, the ludicrously ambitious and equally ludicrously overfunded space MMO from developer Cloud Imperium Games and designer Chris Roberts. For some of that time there was a legitimate question of whether there was any kind of game there at all, but that spectre has long been…
Digital Foundry takes a look. The unofficial port of GTA 3 to Sega Dreamcast has caused quite a stir recently, and with good reason – it was considered by many to be an impossible job, but a dedicated team has managed to get the game up and running on the console – and the results…
Path of Exile 2 has been carving out a lovely little niche for itself, based on how many hours of monster-smashing my colleagues here at PC Gamer have been pumping into it. But it hasn’t come without its roadbumps—like, for example, a recent security breach that saw an estimated 66 (potentially more) accounts compromised. That’s…
When Marvel Rivals Season 1 launched last week, a whole host of updates came with it. There were new heroes and some much-needed nerfs and buffs, but there was also something else that went unmentioned in the patch notes: asset hash checking. This prevented client-side mods from working in Marvel Rivals. NetEase considers modding a…
Steam Deck’s OS is let loose, and it could change the handheld gaming market. Handheld gaming PCs like the AYANEO Flip DS can already run Steam, but only via the Windows-based OS they come pre-loaded with. It provides a less-than-ideal user experience when compared to native SteamOS Last week, Valve announced that it was expanding…
‘Fish’ was discovered on a coin-op division back-up tape. Last week, it was announced that a new, unreleased Atari 2600 prototype had recently been discovered on a VAX/VMS backup tape from Atari’s Coin-Op Division, and that better yet, it’s available now for anyone who wants to give it a go. The news was initially shared…
Credits include Master of Orion, Conquest of the New World and Castles II. Writer, board game designer and video game developer Alan Emrich has passed away at the age of 65, we’re sad to report. His death was reported on the ConsimWorld forums (thanks, Game Developer). During his career, Amrich penned multiple strategy guides, founded…
Can you believe that over one fifth of PC gaming monitors sold today are OLED panels? So, says no less an authority on the subject than LG. To be more precise, LG told YouTube channel HDTVTest that OLED now has 22% of the PC gaming monitor market. LG notes that market share has been achieved…