An “exclusive” pin set is up for grabs. Later this year in November, Nintendo is releasing an updated version of Square’s classic RPG Super Mario RPG. If you’re on the hunt for pre-order bonuses and happen to be located in North America, games retailer GameStop has now officially revealed what it will be offering in…
There’s a reason that we’re in 2026 and still see so few life sims on the market: they’re incredibly freakin’ hard to make. That’s not just me spouting my opinion, it’s something that the developers behind games like The Sims, Inzoi, and prematurely cancelled Life by You have said in the past. There are so…
Former Riot Games vice president Greg Street, who left the company in 2023 and launched a new NetEase-backed studio called Fantastic Pixel Castle, says the partnership with NetEase is coming to an end, and that the studio will likely close if a new publisher can’t be found. Street delivered the bad news in a message…
Ray tracing has been around a surprisingly long time in computer graphics. It was used to generate images in the 1960s, and by the ’80s new algorithms had been created including path tracing. Yet the “holy grail of rendering” remained a distant dream for early home machines like the ZX Spectrum. You need only look…
The Seagate Seven is a celebration of company’s 35 years in the industry Seagate earlier today announced what it says is the slimmest portable drive the world has ever seen. The Seagate Seven — called thus because of its 7mm depth — is as minimalistic as it is slim. Its unembellished steel enclosure, according the…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Preparing myself for the possibility of fighting Simon in Clair Obscur again. Last week I was: Recommending you go be cringe in World of Warcraft. It is 2019: Larian is announcing its new RPG, Baldur’s Gate 3. The studio releases a short, cinematic teaser…
When I started building my character, or Zoi, for the first time, Inzoi impressed me with the amount of customization at hand. I spent a lot longer than I like to admit meticulously crafting a Zoi that in reality, looked nothing like me. But I still felt proud of it. The amount of points you…
Last year we reported on a phenomenon that, frankly, left PC Gamer’s editorial team a little baffled. We were in one of our morning meetings when someone shared Banana, a free-to-play game available on Steam where you click on an image of a banana, but what was mind-blowing were the player counts. This was in…
Creative Assembly dropped a whole bunch of new information about Total War: Warhammer 40,000 at Gamescom this week, and yeah, this all sounds amazing. But what is it actually like to play? I got an extended look at a preview build yesterday, where I was able to spend an hour exploring a slice of the…
Just like the classics. Atari and developer Choice Provisions have provided a new update for Breakout Beyond on Switch. It’s good news for those who weren’t keen on the new landscape orientations – you can now play in TATE Mode! With the new update applied, all you need to do is head into the options,…