Dark Souls players spent months trying to figure out if the pendant that’s in your inventory when you start the game unlocked something secret. Even though it’s literally labeled “useless,” people were convinced there had to be more to it. It turned out to be just a joke, but you can’t blame anyone for being…
Baby Sonic is the cute creature of the moment and you can now catch him for a limited time in SEGA’s Sonic Forces and Sonic Dash. Both game are free to play but include micro transactions. You will be able to see Baby Sonic on the big screen when the Sonic the Hedgehog Movie opens…
Finding the Apostate Key location in Hollow Knight: Silksong is surprisingly difficult. For those who didn’t get kidnapped by The Slab‘s jailers earlier in the game, you’ll first encounter this area heading left out of the Choral Chambers in Act 2. The only thing is, most of the region is locked behind a door that…
After the popularity of Schedule 1, it was only a matter of time before another questionable simulator came to occupy everyone’s free time, and Cash Cleaner Simulator is here to do just that. Rather than crafting your own supply and handing it out around the town, as the name suggests you are responsible for checking,…
Grand Theft Auto 6 is still months away from launch, if not longer, but it’s already causing ripples in the games industry. Numerous major publishers are fretting over precisely when Rockstar’s latest crime epic will arrive, so they can schedule their games around its release and thus avoid the financial black hole they believe it…
Having a very big game that everyone loves feels like a blursed position to be in. On the one hand, cool! You made something and everyone likes it and thinks very fondly of it. On the other hand, oh no. Everyone likes this thing you made and now expect that level of greatness again and…
We and our council of games industry luminaries ranked Helldivers 2 highly in our 2023 Most Wanted list, which is a small point of pride. The buzz around Arrowhead’s 2024 co-op shooter wasn’t nothing before it came out, but it was getting a whole lot less mainstream attention before it became PlayStation’s fastest-selling game ever…
Bigger is always better in computing. Just maybe don’t try and tell that to the SFF guys with their Fractal Terras and neat cable routing. But in these terms the 18-inch gaming laptop is a desktop replacement beast; it’s the largest form of laptop and a crazy idea that pushes against the idea of a…
Uphill battle Several weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled a pair of SDKs intended to make it relatively easy for iOS and Android developers to port their apps over to Windows 10 (for mobile devices). Called Project Islandwood (iOS) and Project Astoria (Android), Microsoft envisioned its toolkits transforming Windows from an also-ran into the mobile space to…
In 2021 PCG reported on a singular scientific experiment: rats named Carmack and Romero had been taught how to ‘play’ Doom. I use the inverted commas because, cute and cool as it was, the question of whether the rats were really playing Doom in any meaningful way, or just running on a ball for some…