Control was one of the best games of 2019, which is high praise: that was the year Disco Elysium, Untitled Goose Game, and Sekiro released. We gave it our “Best Setting” award, because even though Control is pretty much a third-person shooter at heart, its presentation elevates it into something much more interesting. This is…
Do you still feel it? EA’s Need for Speed series is now 30 years old. The first game (full title: Road & Track Presents The Need For Speed) launched on 3DO on December 2nd, 1994, in Europe and December 13th in North America. It was later ported to PS1, Saturn and PC. Read the full…
Back in September, Nintendo announced that they were going to be ending production of the 3DS family of handheld consoles. Prior to the announcement, Nintendo had been very sporadic with their 3DS support. In the last couple of years, all Nintendo has been doing is the occasional firmware update. Well, that occasional firmware update has…
The game will “benefit” from the Switch 2 specs, though. We’re two days away from the release of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, Dotemu and The Game Kitchen’s gorgeous pixel art spin-off from the Ninja Gaiden series (which is experiencing something of a comeback lately). And ahead of the game’s launch, publisher Dotemu has some potentially disappointing…
I’ll be honest, I never really understood all the ardour for The Crew, but that’s no criticism. There are plenty of games (hello, Mafia 3) that I love to the absolute bafflement of my friends and loved ones, and I’d be very sad if they got taken away. So even if I don’t know what…
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox has finally made it to western regions. The game released on Playstation 4 in North America yesterday, and a brand new trailer has been released by publisher NIS America and developer Falcom to celebrate the launch. Europe’s getting the game on Playstation 4 on February 5th. As for a release on…
Follow these steps to avoid having licensed music removed from your YouTube videos If you’ve ever tried to legally inject a copyrighted song into your YouTube video (meaning you licensed it or otherwise own the song in question), you know it can be an exercise in frustration. It’s not that using music is difficult—the problem…
Want to fast travel in Stalker 2? The Zone is pretty vast, with a whole heap of locations to discover and explore, so it’s understandable that you might want to speed things up a little bit in your search for loot and noteworthy locales. Stalker 2’s fast travel requires you to find guide NPCs dotted…
The Winter Tour is already over in Nintendo’s hit mobile title, Mario Kart Tour. Now the action has moved on to London in England and it begins now. To highlight what is in store for players, Nintendo has produced a short commercial showing a rather spiffing Waluigi and Daisy. Have a watch of what’s new…
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. Much like the humble health bar, the reticle does not exist to be memorable. It’s the most utilitarian tool of…