From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #326 (UK, January 2019). Something I miss when I play digital games is the tactile side of play. It’s why videogames and board games coexist in my life so beautifully. One allows for complexity beyond what a pen-and-paper can track, and the other offers tokens…
Though clearly a fan of GoldenEye 007 herself, Alyse Knorr has a surprisingly functional depiction of the Bond Team at Rare in the late nineties. Her Boss Fight book, centered as it is around the working environment of the developers, provides a compelling argument that GoldenEye 007 may well have been the last major…
One of the special pleasures in any medieval game is getting to field a trebuchet. In an era where warfare was largely a contest of who can keep people swinging their unfriendliest sticks around the longest before they get hungry enough to leave, there’s a sort of giddiness that comes with being the guy who’s…
Summary Built in collaboration with pro skater Sterre Meijer. The fresh perspective of Goon Squad‘s retro arcade skating experience. How Sterre’s experience and passion helped shape gameplay and authenticity. I’m Dieter from Headup, and together with Goon Squad we created Skatesterre, an arcade skateboarding game that takes you back to the golden era of the…
Nightdive’s System Shock remake is great. PC Gamer immsim guy Joshua Wolens gave it an 80% review score, and we later chose it as the Best Remake of 2023 in our annual Game of the Year awards. Three years down the road, Nightdive is following it up with System Shock VR, a VR game being…
Are you someone who spends almost as much time creating your characters as you do playing them in an RPG? Love obsessing over the details of your avatar’s facial features, browsing the menu of noses, eyes, ears, and facial hair for ages? Think you’re good enough that you could make your character look so much…
In a few months, Nintendo will release a shiny remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Switch 2. Given its reputation as one of Nintendo’s crown jewels, I imagine it will be remarkably faithful to the original, but with new graphics, some tweaks to the controls, and a few other modern…
Marcus Lehto is known to some as the “father of Master Chief,” and for good reason: He was the art director on Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001, and its two direct sequels. The look of Halo is kind of his thing, in other words, and he has some issues with how the new Halo: Campaign…
Less than two months after the release of its latest game, Unhinged, Netflix is closing developer Night School Studios, as well as its Moonloot studio in Helsinki. Netflix confirmed the closures, first reported by Game File, in a statement provided to PC Gamer. “Games continue to be an opportunity for us to expand the variety…
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