Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who left the company and the videogame industry at the end of 2023 following its acquisition by Microsoft, is back in the game. Skydance, the company formed by Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, has added Kotick to its board, where he will serve as an independent director. In…
Japan’s NEC PC-98 series of personal computers, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, were home to hundreds of adventure games and visual novels with absolutely impeccable pixel art. It was a whole vibe—sometimes cute, sometimes incredibly detailed with a very limited color palette, and very (very) often pornographic. Very few of these games were ever…
Nivalis Nights is overwhelming. Intentionally, I suspect, to give me the immersive experience of living in a hyper-capitalist megacity hellscape. It has no map because Nivalis is canonically unmappable, only a HUD compass where my 20+ active quest markers all scuttle over each other, nearly as crowded as the alleyways of its layered, neon city…
If you want to make money in World of Warcraft, well… I cannot rightly say that we at PC Gamer are any good at it, based on the evidence given to us—but we are at least inventing new ways of money-making. And isn’t invention the mother of necessity? Or was it the other way around?…
Even though I was way too new (and low level) to understand how PvP worked in World of Warcraft’s early days, I knew by osmosis that it was made for tryhards. WoW PvP was not only a massive grind, but a competition against other grinders for a unique title that no normal person would even…
What’s going on? EA released Skate (stylized “skate.”) in early access in 2025: an online, free-to-play reboot of the popular skateboarding series A new fan-made “modding platform” called ReSkate makes Skate playable offline ReSkate also adds support for private servers, custom maps, and other mods ReSkate had been downloaded 350K times as of Tuesday The…
Hello everyone! I’m Takeshi Yamanaka, Producer of MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls. Today, we’re excited to reveal the gameplay trailer for Phoenix Cyclops, the first DLC character included in the Year 1 Pass for MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls. Arriving on November 2, Phoenix Cyclops (voiced by Ray Chase) brings a unique fighting style that combines a…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. The diary of my…
Skyscraper maker. Cities: Skylines launched in pretty rough shape on Switch back in 2018. It has been a long wait in the years since for an improved experience on our beloved Nintendo hybrids, and later this month, it sounds like we’re getting it. Cities: Skylines – Expanded Edition is set to launch on Switch 2…
We still don’t have a PC launch date for Grand Theft Auto 6, or even official confirmation that it’s ever going to come our way, even though we all know it is. But for one brief shining moment, fans on PC had hope that maybe they’d be able to backdoor their way into the cool…