Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good…
Putting to bed decades of information. Rare footage of a promotional crossover between Sega’s Dreamcast classic Space Channel 5 and the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards has appeared online, definitively bringing an end to decades of misinformation. Back in 2000, several outlets, including IGN and Gamespot, reported that Ulala, the pink-haired reporter and protagonist of…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2023, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. I’m not a big fan of scary…
Two months ago, the internet gathered around and informally crowned Marvel Rivals as the new popular hero shooter of note. I’m having lots of fun with it, but its rule-breaking heroes and experimental abilities have kept a question nagging in my noggin: Why isn’t Overwatch 2 trying anything like this? Well, now it is. In…
It’s kind of amazing how Vermintide 2, Fatshark’s medieval-fantasy pest control sim from 2018, continues to be neck-and-neck in popularity with its far more recent 40k successor Darktide. A big part of that is that there just seems to be a lot more scope within its design for super-fun updates. Case in point: you can…
Arrives February 6th. Hamster has announced it will be bringing Namco’s isometric platformer Märchen Maze to the Nintendo Switch and PS4 later this week, marking its first official release in the West (thanks Famitsu!). Originally released in Japanese arcades back in 1988 on the System 1 arcade board, Märchen Maze serves as a (very) loose…
The official Enter/Exit the Gungeon Twitter has announced that the Exit the Gungeon: Hello to Arms update is coming this Friday to multiple platforms, including the Nintendo Switch. Dodge Roll, the game’s developers, say that the update will have “new guns and items, a new Arsenal Mode, new Shop Hubs, and Glocktopus”. Exit the Gungeon…
Another blast from the past appears to be returning. The classic cartoon character Felix the Cat is seemingly making a video game comeback, according to a new rating that’s popped up on the ESRB. The Felix the Cat game for Switch and multiple other platforms is described as a “collection of action platformers” where players…
If there’s a recent game-dev story I’m ravenous to hear more about, it’s this: what the hell happened with Hardsuit Labs’ version of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2? If you can cast your mind back to the heady days of 2019, you might remember the game’s initial announcement, when Paradox got Brian Mitsoda—writer on…
A teenager from South Dakota has changed his plea to guilty over threatening messages sent to developers at Epic Games in relation to Fortnite (thanks, Gamespot). Jayden Griffin, who is 19 years of age, was indicted by a grand jury in December 2024 over electronic communications sent to Epic Games staff between October 24, 2024,…