As it did to many in my generation, Pokémon Snap left an indelible imprint on my childhood psyche. Even at a young, tender age, I admired the rarity of a game that celebrated the simple act of observing creatures in their natural habitat instead of attacking them on sight. I’m all for fighting fake creatures,…
XIt’s been a bad few days for Larian Studios and CEO Swen Vincke. Instead of basking in the glory of its first post-Baldur’s Gate 3 project, revealed at The Game Awards as Divinity, the studio has been dealing with the ugly aftermath of Vincke’s comments about the use of generative AI at Larian. In a…
The Forge is part Roblox RPG, part mining sim, and what’s an RPG without a little off-the-beaten-path questing? One of your first side gigs begins in Stonewake’s Cross, sending you on the hunt for a fellow explorer’s missing pet in the Tomo’s Lost Cat quest. Despite his weirdly perky demeanor, Tomo is pretty down about…
This year’s Steam Winter Sale has arrived, but don’t let the biggest game sale of the year stress you out when you’re already frazzled enough by the rest of your holiday shopping. We’ve picked through the mountains of games on Steam to find the deals you should actually care about. Below, we’ve highlighted Winter Sale…
Just one week after a new trailer for the upcoming Mass Effect-alike Exodus was unveiled at The Game Awards, a Bloomberg report says James Ohlen, the head of developer Archetype Entertainment, has stepped down. The change comes as part of what appears to be a shakeup of gaming efforts at Hasbro, which has brought in…
Well, that didn’t take long: Diablo 4 players have cooked up a completely automated build for the new paladin class that involves walking your dogs around while surrounded by a ring of fire. Never again will you need to burden yourself with pressing buttons once you get this build going as it’s powerful enough to…
After spending my life with a vague fear of fightsticks and button combos, I now have more reason than ever to finally learn how to play a fighting game: so I can someday be even a tenth as cool as Hisako Sakai, the 92-year-old Japanese woman who won the title of Tekken 8 champion during…
After spending my life with a vague fear of fightsticks and button combos, I now have more reason than ever to finally learn how to play a fighting game: so I can someday be even a tenth as cool as Hisako Sakai, the 92-year-old Japanese woman who won the title of Tekken 8 champion during…
In 2021 PCG reported on a singular scientific experiment: rats named Carmack and Romero had been taught how to ‘play’ Doom. I use the inverted commas because, cute and cool as it was, the question of whether the rats were really playing Doom in any meaningful way, or just running on a ball for some…
In 2021 PCG reported on a singular scientific experiment: rats named Carmack and Romero had been taught how to ‘play’ Doom. I use the inverted commas because, cute and cool as it was, the question of whether the rats were really playing Doom in any meaningful way, or just running on a ball for some…