Less than a week after Frostpunk 2 won Best Sim/Strategy Game award at The Game Awards, developer 11 bit studios has ended development on a game known internally as Project 8, and laid off a number of employees. Project 8 had been in development since 2018, according to a statement released on December 17 (via…
Is anyone surprised? We’re just one day away from the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie — which introduces Shadow the Hedgehog to the blockbuster franchise — hitting cinemas worldwide. But Variety is reporting that Paramount Pictures has already greenlighted a fourth film. Shocked? Nope, not us. According to the report, the movie is aiming for…
The Steam end-of-year review always throws up some interesting numbers, and with 2024’s stats now out, it prompts some interesting reflections on how we game, both individually and en masse. On a personal level, it turns out I’ve played about 50% fewer games on Steam than last year (I blame Game Pass, emulation, and my…
With a physical edition to boot. If you’re a fan of Undertale, then chances are you may have heard of OFF, even if you’ve yet to actually play it. Creator Toby Fox often cites the RPG as a huge influence on Undertale, and now the 2008 cult hit is making its way to the Switch….
In 2017, Battle Chef Brigade was the kind of indie hit that’s increasingly rare on the packed Steam store of 2024. The fascinating and novel combination of brawler and match-three puzzler didn’t sell millions upon millions of copies or make its way onto many Game of the Year lists like this year’s Balatro, but it…
Sony has increased its stake in FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa to 10%, becoming the largest shareholder in the business, while the two corporations have entered into a “strategic capital and business alliance” according to a joint press release. It had been rumored for several weeks that Sony was in talks to fully acquire Kadokawa and…
Here at PC Gamer we’re all busy sharing our Steam Replays with each other in Slack, comparing how many games we’ve played, how many ‘cheevos we’ve earned, and how many of us have the word ‘Dwarf’ in our spider graphs—which is at least five of us. The Dwarf genre had a strong 2024! It’s fun…
The Forever Winter is one of the few extraction shooters I’ve clicked with—a post-apocalyptic warzone where you play as insignificant scavengers scurrying across desolate battlefields, trying to find loot while soldiers, cyborgs and building-sized machines duke it out all around you. It’s tough, intense, and keeps on impressing me with its exceptional art design and…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means: The 2024 Steam Winter Sale has begun. This is the big one—well, one of them, anyway—with deals galore on literally thousands of games, and plenty of Steam stuff to pick up including free stickers for browsing your Discovery Queue (nine of…
I admit it: I’m a coward. The first time I fired up Path of Exile 1, accidentally tabbing over to its sprawling passive skill tree filled me with an instinctual dread, like I was coming face to face with some ancestral human enemy. How could my frail, mortal mind ever hope to make sense of…