Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. I’m going to level with you,…
The ever-spiralling cost of computing components is not exactly news. But the big question is how much longer this will all continue. Unfortunately, a new interview by the BBC with TSMC, the company that manufactures so many of the chips that go into our PCs, suggests there’s plenty more to come. TSMC’s Chief Financial Officer,…
The Like a Dragon (previously known as Yakuza) series has been a mainstay of Steam Decks and budget rigs thanks to solid compatibility and the Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii system requirements are no different. Shiver me timbers! Over on the Pirate Yakuza Steam page right now (via RPG Site), you can spot…
Off the start line. Nintendo has today announced that F-Zero will be heading back to the Switch in the form of a 99-player battle royale as F-Zero 99 speeds onto the Nintendo Switch Online library today. This will only be available for owners of an active NSO membership, but it seems like a pretty good…
I was there 30 years ago…. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in October. Enjoy! If you’re reading this on October 11th 2024, then 30 years ago today Final Fantasy 3…
“Will you be the Miracle Boy you’ve been waiting for?”. SamSoft’s Wonder Boy-inspired Miracle Boy in Dragon Land is now available to download for 15.00€. Described by the modern-day version of Zzap! as “a true masterpiece”, this homebrew ST title is heavily influenced by Wonder Boy in Monster World / Wonder Boy V: Monster World…
Playtonic will share another “major update” next week. Yooka-Replaylee is due out on the Switch 2 this year, and appears it will be getting a proper physical release on Nintendo’s new platform. A new listing has popped up on the Canadian website Video Games Plus, and according to the description, the “full game will be…
It looks like another bad day for Roblox: The US Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism has launched an investigation into child safety on the platform, saying the company “appears to prioritize revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children.” A letter (via Kotaku) sent to Roblox CEO David…
OpenAI has rolled back its latest version of ChatGPT just 48 hours after release. The reason? Not a murderous LLM rampage, the impending demise of humanity or anything to do with AI overlords. Turns out, GPT-4o was agreeable to the point of ridiculousness. Or to use OpenAI supremo Sam Altman’s words, GPT-4o, “glazes too much.”…
Larian Studios might have blown everyone away with Baldur’s Gate 3, but the colossal success of its fantasy RPG didn’t come out of nowhere. BG3 was built on the shoulders of Larian’s previous game, Divinity: Original Sin 2, a fantastic RPG in its own right, and one you can currently grab for a fraction of…