Death Howl’s demo is part of Steam Next fest—which meant, after a glowing recommendation from PCG’s Robin Valentine earlier this year, I was obligated to give it a try. Partially because I get paid a salary for this sort of thing, but also because I heard the words “soulslike deckbuilder” and thought nah, surely not….
The Spanish voice actors who voice the characters Revali and Zelda have apparently claimed that their voice acting work on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 has finished. The news emerged on a podcast which featured both Marcel Navarro and Nerea Alfonso. Nintendo hasn’t shown anything of the game since the Nintendo…
It’s hard to imagine Vampire Survivors-esque combat combined with city building, but Super Fantasy Kingdom has saved my imagination some work by mashing these two very distinct genres together. If you haven’t seen it before, this top-down city survival game is a little like Kingdom: Two Crowns, The Bonfire 2, or more recently, Thronefall—your classic…
Tabletop arcade toys were all the rage in the early ’80s. Coleco was well known for its tabletop machines (Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.), but slightly lesser known were those by Parker Brothers. In 1983 they released this version of Q*bert by Gottlieb. Jon found this one on a road trip into South Georgia, and…
Do you know how long it’s been since we first saw the advent of the humble gaming mouse? 26 years. That’s when Razer first introduced its odd-looking Boomslang for us all to see. Back in a world of ball mice and PS/2 connections, of Microsoft IntelliMouse designs and cruddy free deskpads, the very concept of…
Hi there, Xbox Insiders! Passages I hope this Community Update finds you as well as all those emails, meeting invites, and “let’s start the year strong” messages you marked all as read have in your Inbox. We’re only a week into 2024 and so much has happened already. We saw a real-life “Getting Over It”…
Hatsune Miku’s voyage through space has finally come to an end after 15 long years. The Japanese space probe Akatsuki has officially ceased operations, as reported by Automaton. The probe was originally launched on May 21, 2010, after famously being decorated with some 13,000 Hatsune Miku drawings and messages submitted by fans. The Japan Aerospace…
Over the past year, we’ve had the privilege of connecting with talented game developers from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through the PlayStation MENA Hero Project. This initiative was launched with a simple goal: to identify and support original voices and empower creators from emerging regions to tell their stories through games….
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. It’s been a relatively quiet year for new gaming CPUs, as AMD and Intel launched the bulk of their latest processors back in 2024. Ryzen 9000-series chips first appeared in the summer,…
A fool and his money are easily parted. If you value the human spirit’s boundless creativity and resourcefulness, then the tiresome trend of Generative AI is probably getting on your nerves right now. Sure, AI has its uses – it’s already helping us gain enhanced understanding of the worlds of science and medicine, for example…