In December, Twitch relaxed its rules to allow for “artistic depictions of nudity” in streams—things like “content that ‘deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region,’”—as long as it was labelled as containing “sexual themes.” Two days later, following “community concern,” it chickened out and walked the changes back: “Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional…
About This Episode Four decades ago, just when video games seemed to be the next big thing, the bottom dropped out. Compounding problems like market confusion, consumer confidence, and game quality to name just a few, nearly demolished a seemingly unstoppable new industry. They ultimately made a comeback, but the future looked bleak when the…
Scratch that nostalgia itch with these Switch neo-classics. Updated with Gravity Circuit and Chico and the Magic Orchards DX. Enjoy! Ah, nostalgia — it’s a tricksy thing. How many times have we gone back to revisit a treasured classic only to find that modern games have spoiled it for us? For all the brilliant aspects…
Game prices may increase, too. An analyst has predicted that Nintendo’s next console will be an iterative evolution on the current Switch and will cost $400 at launch. Oh, and it’s apparently also coming this year. Speaking via a predictions round-up over on GamesIndustry.biz, Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games,…
Over three decades have passed since Tetris made its debut on the NES in 1989. Since then, a holy grail has lied just out of reach—the “true killscreen”. Now, a young prodigy has managed to reach it: after 34 entire years, a flesh-and-blood person has finally beaten Tetris. Some explanations are in order: a killscreen…
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…
There’s a new Samsung Odyssey G8 monitor in town. Yup, it’s OLED. Nope, it’s different from the Odyssey OLED G8 Samsung already sells. This one is a 32-inch 4K beast running at fully 240Hz. Quite distinct, then, from the existing Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 34-inch ultrawide with 3,440 by 1,440 pixels or the Samsung Odyssey…
Another Code! Prince of Persia! Turnip Boy! Goodness, is it really 2024 already? Yep, hard to believe, yet here we are. As we enter the seventh year of the Switch’s life cycle, a lot of eyes (including ours) are inevitably drifting toward a potential new hardware announcement in the coming months. With many of Nintendo’s…
Happy New Year folk, welcome to 2024! Hopefully your holiday season was filled with plenty of good food, festivities, and just the right amount of mandatory family interactions. Is it me, or did 2023 somehow fly by and also feel like the longest year ever? Regardless, we successfully battled our way through the months and…
“No thank you. Mission complete. Game over”. It’s hard to think of WipEout without also thinking about The Designers Republic, the Sheffield-based agency that built the franchise’s look and helped it become one of the trailblazers of the 32-bit era. What you may not realise is that The Designers Republic – which was founded in…