Rockstar’s been embroiled for some time in a legal dispute after firing 30 unionised workers in the UK, which has, naturally, been seen as union-busting behaviour by those impacted. The workers, who are part of The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), have been making solid progress. In June of this year, it was…
The movie North Korea supposedly didn’t want you to see Despite the efforts of hackers who were apparently ticked off with Sony Pictures Entertainment over The Interview, a far-fetched comedy in which the CIA enlists the help of TV personalities played by Seth Rogan and James Francos to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, millions…
Pre-orders open now! The London-based record label Data Discs announced over the weekend that it is releasing the soundtrack for Sonic Team’s 1996 Sega Saturn classic NiGHTS into Dreams for the first time ever on vinyl. This physical release is newly remastered and resequenced, features a glow-in-the-dark outer sleeve, and will come with liner notes…
Often at the centre of a wholesome life-sim is a small business, where life slows down and you can enjoy the simple life while integrating yourself with a charming, tight knit community. Cafés and coffee shops symbolise the pinnacle of cosiness, and Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim looks to be a warm hug against the bitter…
There’s always room for one more good one. In 2019, a small French studio called Hibernian Workshop released a game called Dark Devotion, a promising 2D soulslike that was met with mixed reviews, but managed to garner a passionate fanbase. A couple of years later, the team returned with a Kickstarter pitch for a new…
The nonstop celebratory rave that kicked off in Arc Raiders this week when players discovered rare blueprints were suddenly dropping everywhere has, unfortunately, been broken up by the loot police. Embark issued a hotfix today that lowered blueprint drop rates from where they were at the beginning of the Cold Snap update, but it’s not…
Turn-based strategy game Rising Lords will release on January 18, 2024 after nearly three years in Early Access. The hybrid of PC turn-based strategy with more traditional board game and card game design focuses around strategically expanding a medieval fiefdom’s economy while raising armies to defend yourself against—or conquer—your neighbors. Writing in the magazine back…
While I spent much of 2025 obsessed with Blue Prince, PC Gamer’s ‘best design’ GOTY award winner, it wasn’t the only killer puzzle game to release near the beginning of last year. The Roottrees are Dead, a game mostly spent sitting at a computer (yours, and also a virtual one) sussing out what happened to…
You asked for it, they listened With just 15 days left and only $210 pledged so far towards its $50,000 goal on Kickstarter, we don’t know if One Technology’s Phantom One system will gain enough momentum to be successfully funded, but give credit to the team behind the project. When we first reported about the…
Today at GDC, San Francisco’s annual summit of games industry professionals, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo delivered this year’s keynote address, sharing a lessons learned from a game development career spanning from his days as lead designer on Starcraft: Brood War and Warcraft 3 to founding his own studio at Bonfire, developers of…