The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Spirit Mancer, the inaugural release from Sunny Syrup Studio, is an ambitious game that flies a little too close to the sun. It’s a hack ‘n’ slash, an action platformer, an RPG, a monster catcher, and a deckbuilder, all rolled into one. If that sounds like…
Modern gaming PCs are relatively easy to build and use, but underneath that friendly exterior, they’re still incredibly complicated things. So when they start doing weird stuff like refusing to boot after being used for a while, it can be really hard to solve the issue. However, if your PC is doing precisely that and…
Surface Pro 3 starts at $699 for a limited time Maybe Microsoft is still scarred from having to take a $900 million charge on unsold Surface RT tablets a year and a half ago, or perhaps a refresh is around the bend. Either way, the Redmond outfit is trying its best to entice people to…
Something very odd is happening in the world of Red Dead Redemption 2, and I don’t know what’s going on but I do know this: It’s got a lot of players very excited about spiderwebs. The wheels started turning in December, when players discovered a weird spider symbol carved into a pole. Laying that symbol…
“He said to me, ‘Why don’t you just tell us to make porn?’”. We recently spoke to industry veteran Mike Fischer, who has worked at Namco, Xbox and Sega during a glittering career in the video game industry, and he has shone a light on the internal conflicts that took place within Sega when the…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. About…
While we will get to choose the clan and gender of our player-character in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, it’s apparently not going to be a full “how many skill points do I want to put into Security” kind of character creation—a revelation that’s set a few fans on edge. Narrative director Ian Thomas…
Last week, we asked you to join the hunt and share rapturous moments from Monster Hunter Wilds using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: shimo_ps shares their hunter and Palico sitting atop their Seikret. Tomkat_XII shares a view of the desert. youhaveawhat shares a forest view. laya_photo shares Gemma in front of a forge…
Ahead of the new Emotional Rescue update, Disney Dreamlight Valley has announced that some significant changes are being made to its current Star Path format. As detailed on the Disney Dreamlight Valley blog, these changes are being made to help make the Star Path feel more accessible for every player, regardless of where they are…
Deck-building, dungeons and death. Oh my! Wales Interactive’s Into the Restless Ruins is upon us and, if you’ve not heard of this one until now, pay attention, because it’s very good. If you have been following along with the game’s progress so far, you’ll know that it’s a dungeon-crawler/roguelike with a superbly unique twist. The…