“Get ready to Rip and Tear through your favorite games”. If you’ve been keeping tabs on the Sega retro community recently, you’ll be aware of fan-made efforts to produce a console that was announced and then cancelled back in the 1990s: the Sega Neptune. An all-in-one Mega Drive / Genesis and 32X, the Neptune was…
Give it enough time, and Vampire Survivors-likes (or ‘survivors’, which we here at PC Gamer are committed to making happen) will invent their way back to Diablo. We started with the sugary slot-machine loops of Vampire Survivors itself, progressed to the loot-driven meta-progression of Halls of Torment, which has all that stuff plus: activatable powers,…
“When you do the maths, we are completely out of cash in September”. “Currently, in our bank account, we have £2100 (around $2800). It’s not even enough to pay the rent for one month,” explains Joseph Redon, head of the Japanese Game Preservation Society. He’s describing the end of the non-profit organisation he set up…
Outside of cultivating the season’s most profitable veggies or endlessly fainting in the mines, a lot of the time you spend in Stardew Valley is working alongside its townspeople. You develop friendships and relationships with Pelican Town’s villagers over the years, but no matter how long you spend giving gifts and completing requests, Stardew doesn’t…
EA has laid off hundreds of employees—reportedly around 300 to 400—across its studios, including around 100 at Respawn Entertainment, developers of Titanfall and Apex Legends. Among the many developers left scrambling in an industry where this has become shockingly routine, one in particular leapt out. Heather Woodward, a now-former narrative designer at Respawn, was laid…
Stardew Valley’s fishing minigame gets a surprising amount of hate, whether it’s because of how annoying it is to find all the legendary fish or because fishing minigames are a dime a dozen nowadays. But I’ve always loved it as a way to break up my farming hyperfixation, and it sounds like Eric Barone, the…
QTE in the place to be. If you’ve been paying any attention whatsoever to upcoming and newly released games of late, you’ll no doubt already know all about Sandfall Interactive’s stunning Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Indeed, this very writer slapped a 10/10 score on the new RPG over at our sister siter Pure Xbox, so…
Mark your calendars. Hilltop, the localization lead on the fan translation of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, has teased “a special game announcement” at the next Wholesome Direct, taking place on Saturday, June 7th. The prolific fan translator and hacker didn’t specify exactly what this announcement would entail, only that it would offer a look at…
Fortnite’s come a long way since its days of being a slightly strange sandbox survival/tower defense hybrid. It’s held virtual concerts, let me gun down Godzilla as Hatsune Miku, and lest we forget the bizarre Star Wars event in 2019 where players were treated to an exclusive broadcast that was later referenced in Rise of…
A step in the right direction. In addition to the overall firmware update for the Switch, Nintendo has provided an update to the (now red) Switch eShop that is very welcome in one way, and perhaps not so welcome in another. To put it simply, changes applied to the ‘Charts’ and ‘Current Offers’ pages now…