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. Ah,…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Ted, and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in…
I love lockpicking minigames, especially when representatively they’re as far away from the act of lockpicking as possible. While I admire the elegance of Bethesda’s bobby-pin/screwdriver system seen in Fallout 4, I’m much more interested in the weirder solutions like Splinter Cell‘s baffling pin-flicking system, or Gothic Remake‘s absurdly elaborate sliding puzzle system. I love…
The memory crisis may be in full swing, taking numerous PC components with it, but the value of gaming monitors is one of a few hardware things that has actually improved over the last few years. In fact, their price-to-quality ratio is kind of outrageous right now, with even relatively recent QD-OLED screens going for…
From 1991 to 2000, the Nintendo UK hotline answered millions of calls from players. Before the internet became widespread, if you were stuck on a video game and needed help, you had a few different options available to you. But arguably, one of the quickest was to call up a video game hotline. As you…
Every new Rockstar game is more simulation-heavy than the last, and Grand Theft Auto 6 aims to bring players closer to real-life in a variety of ways. One of these is the addition of vehicle refuelling, which will require players to stop off at gas stations (or petrol stations if you’re a Brit like me)…
It’s strange to think about in hindsight, but Left 4 Dead 2 was a controversial game in the run-up to its release in November 2009—just one year after the original Left 4 Dead laid the foundations for today’s enormous cooperative gaming scene. Indeed, it was that rapid turnaround, combined with the fact that the first…
The one and Oni. Ah, the weekend! With the working week behind us, it’s finally time to put our feet up and tuck into some games. It was a reasonably quiet one in the world of Nintendo this week, but a Sony State of Play brought some announcements our way. Final Fantasy VII Revelation finally…
Revolving Ocelot. While there are many instances of video game box art being altered from territory to territory – typically to give Kirby ANGRY EYES or to stick a gun in somebody’s hand – the case of Konami’s 1998 masterpiece Metal Gear Solid has been something of an outlier. While the Japanese and North American…
“The delay has proven immensely beneficial”. After being delayed to “allow time for performance adjustments“, Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition finally arrived on the Switch 2 last month. So, was it worth the wait? Digital Foundry has now taken a look and confirms the delay has been “immensely beneficial to the quality of the final release”….