Once thought far too cheesy to bring with us into the modern gaming era, FMV has been enjoying a bit of a renaissance over the last decade, thanks to games like Her Story and Alan Wake. If you’re not familiar, it stands for full-motion video—in other words, it’s when live-action filmed sequences are used in…
Testing the Switch’s might. NetherRealm Studios has been on a real hot streak with the Mortal Kombat franchise ever since it dropped its first game, the sublime Mortal Kombat 9, all the way back in 2011. The studio has always focused on bringing a top-notch narrative experience to the table, supported by a laundry list…
The ultimate Ultima. One of the most famous Western RPG series of the ’80s and ’90s, Ultima is a franchise which means a great deal to players of a certain age. Since the release of the first game on the Apple II in 1981, millions of adventurers all over the world have been captivated by…
The best Atari Jaguar emulator just got even better. Ever since releasing the Atari Jaguar emulator BigPEmu last December, the programmer Rich Whitehouse has been hard at work adding a bunch of new features to the software to improve its capabilities. This includes introducing Jaguar CD support in V1.05, VR compatibility in V1.07, and networking…
This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to the brand new mecha game from Piranha Games, MechWarrior 5: Clans. This new entry in the long-running MechWarrior series promises to be the most explosive and narratively engaging yet, and we deliver never-before-seen images as well as authoritative developer insight. In addition, while we’re talking big stompy…
Bitmap Books’ latest arrives this October. Bitmap Books has just revealed its next project, and it’s likely to be of interest to horror gaming fans. Ants To Zombies: Six Decades Of Video Game Horror “delves into the remarkable and long history of games that terrify and delight in equal measure,” according to the publisher. Read…
The Starfield community’s ships are giving me some heavy Spore flashbacks. In case that’s a game you missed, 2008’s Spore was a funky little space-sim with several minigames stacked onto its back-end. While it fell short of Maxis’ lofty promises, I still have fond memories of its creature creator—which people used to make anything other…
Tech Tales This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 385 in June 2023, as part of our Tech Tales series. Every month we talk about the ups and downs of PC hardware, with a look back on our own history with the hobby. It’s 7pm on a hazy June evening in my atrocious…
Slither Wing and Iron Moth up for grabs. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are getting yet another 5-star Tera Raid event later this month, taking place from September 22nd to September 24th. There are two version-specific Pokémon up for grabs during the event: Scarlet players can grab Slither Wing, while Violet players will be hunting for…
And you can help! Over the last decade or so, there have been a lot of new localizations of games that were previously unavailable and unreleased in the West. So much so, that it can be a little hard to keep tabs on them all. That’s why a Twitter user named Baust528 (who is also…