Category: ID@Xbox April 16, 2026 Building the Greens of our Dreams: The Story Behind Under Par Golf Architect Elisa Farinetti, Co-Founder of Broken Arms Games At Broken Arms Games, the mission has always centered on the “how” and “why” of simulation. The studio was founded on the premise of transforming complex real-world systems—from the delicate…
OpenAI’s business model is, at bottom, pretty simple. Sam Altman gets up on a stage somewhere, burbles a few lines about how AI is going to radically upend society and cure cancer, and then shareholders fall over themselves in a frenzied rush to thrust money upon this economic miracle-to-be. OpenAI sells subscriptions to users, sure,…
Take ’em down. Despite some notable concerns around pricing for the Switch 2, folks are nevertheless anxious about the impact that scalping may have on the upcoming console launch. Scalpers have been a plague on recent console releases, buying systems at their RRP before flogging them online at severely inflated values; a practice made exponentially…
When The Super Mario Bros. Movie came out in 2023, it was an instant hit, much to the pleasure of both fans and Nintendo. A Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel was expected, but apart from confirming its existence, Nintendo and animation studio Illumination have been notably silent. Now, it seems, we have a potential title…
Long live the floppy! I still own several 3.5-inch floppies and even some 5.25-inch disks. They’re mostly game installs for old school adventure titles, but in my basement they sit, these boxed up relics of a bygone era. After seeing what a modder did with this old floppy disks, I’m tempted to dig them out…
Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much. I’m ten hours into Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC…
Éalú, from first time developers Beyond the Bark, starts with a strong premise: You are a mechanical mouse looking to escape a mysterious labyrinth. But its presentation is what really blows the doors down: Nearly everything is made out of wood, and rendered in full-on, stop-motion animation. Not real models keyframed to sprites either, such…
It’ll be back (there, you happy?!). Reef Entertainment has announced that Terminator 2D: NO FATE has been delayed again on all consoles, with the game now scheduled to launch on 12th December 2025. The company states that all components for the physical editions have now arrived (which is what prompted the first delay, if you…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. I play far too many games with a competitive ranked mode. I’m not sure why I subject myself to the…
Earlier this week at E3 we announced that PlayStation VR will officially launch in North America on October 13. But we know many of you have been asking – ‘When can I try PlayStation VR out and see some of the great games to come?’ Well, tomorrow and Saturday (June 17 and 18), we’re going…