Lovely-Looking Cinematic Adventure Sequel 'Planet Of Lana II' Gets A 10-Minute Gameplay Vid

Lovely-Looking Cinematic Adventure Sequel ‘Planet Of Lana II’ Gets A 10-Minute Gameplay Vid

Coming to Switch consoles this year. Wishfully Studios’ sublime debut, Planet of Lana, brought some top-notch puzzle/platforming action to Switch back in April 2024. Indeed, we went so far as to give this beautiful-looking cinematic adventure a rather splendid 8/10 back at launch. Now, its Swedish dev, alongside publisher Thunderful Games (now majority owned by…

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Learn more than you ever wanted to know about the weird world of Santa games on Steam in our Christmas quiz!

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. It’s Christmas, and as custom dictates, I’ve got a present for you! Once you’re done singing carols, roasting chestnuts, kissing…

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Warhorse reveals Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have killed 5.4 million enemies while drunk, and I’m just surprised that number isn’t higher because Drinking is the best skill

It’s been a full 365 days since Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 came out, and to celebrate the occasion, Warhorse is partaking in the time-honored game dev tradition of sharing peculiar or funny stats about how people played it. The infographic, painted in the RPG’s signature medieval gothic art style, starts with a big number: our…

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Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that’s technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today’s software that we expect to see it in browsers and basic text editors, and on just about every computing device. However, 50 years ago, it was a significant challenge to implement due to the paucity of memory that affected even the supercomputers of the era. The…

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