Released in 1994 by Atari Games, Primal Rage emerged during one of the most competitive eras in arcade gaming history. Fighting games dominated arcades in the early-to-mid 1990s, fueled by the massive success of titles like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II. Into this crowded arena stepped a bold and unusual contender, one that replaced…
The story of video games is often told as the successive rise of computers and consoles from famous names like Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Microsoft. But beyond this familiar tale, there’s a whole world of weird and wonderful gaming machines that seldom get talked about. Curious Video Game Machines reveals the fascinating stories behind…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here. Okay, I…
Rust is, famously, an unforgiving affair, a survival game where someone murdering you and stealing everything you own is also known as ‘Tuesday’. But Facepunch’s open-world cruelty simulator does have at least one merciful bone in its emaciated, battle-scarred body. In 2021, Facepunch added a softcore mode, which mitigates some of the vanilla game’s brutality…
Overwatch Stadium is a lawless place, an alternate reality to bog-standard Overwatch which the light of god does not touch. But brace yourself, because it’s about to get even more cursed with the two new additions of Ramattra and the dreaded Jetpack Cat. I actually enjoy playing Stadium. I appreciate its chaos and somewhat ridiculous…
In a not-so-alternate alternate timeline, actor Matt Ryan may well have ended up playing a growling, sweaty pirate on Black Sails, the improbably stellar 2014 TV series prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island. He would’ve been a good fit for it. But in this reality, he instead ended up playing the lead…
Andrzej Sapkowski’s got a new Witcher book on the way, which means he’s out and about being his usual scorchingly, wonderfully honest self on the interview circuit. Most recently, he’s been at Vienna Comic Con, where he chatted with Austrian gaming website Cerealkillerz about writing (don’t do it), videogames (he doesn’t play them), and the…
Greetings Operators. The team at Ubisoft wanted to drop an update regarding Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege on the PlayStation 5. Please read on, enjoy, and get ready to breach into next generation. – Tim Turi Hello PlayStation community, we at Ubisoft are super excited today to be able to bring you the latest details…
Frost Giant has announced that Stormgate‘s getting a fully-revamped campaign for its 1.0 release. The overhaul will touch every aspect of the campaign, from characters and voices to mission structure and how you manage your army. “For 1.0, we have re-written the entire narrative structure of the campaign, are recording all-new dialogue, have scripted a…
There are a scant 108 days to go until The Last of Us Part II releases on May 29! We are thrilled to say that we’ve entered the final stretch of production and are putting the finishing touches on The Last of Us Part II as you read this. The end of development puts us…