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. World…
…plus some others, for good measure. As outlined in the first of what will be two pieces, my family and I recently returned to my homeland of South Africa. This was mainly to reconnect with my birthplace and see how much it had changed, but I also wanted to rediscover the video game, comic, and…
Every Day’s Great At Your Junes! Hello everyone, and great job on making it through another week! It’s felt like a bit of a quiet week in the world of Nintendo, despite the release of Rhythm Heaven Groove and a fairly meaty Splatoon Raiders Direct. Yet all eyes have been on Microsoft and Sony: the…
Growing the Mega IP with new initiatives. Capcom’s classic hero Mega Man will celebrate his 40th anniversary next year with a brand-new mainline release. As for the plans for this series beyond the latest game announcement, Capcom says it aims to continue to grow the IP by communicating its appeal to an “even broader audience”….
Epic Games has reached a proposed settlement with a former contractor who it accused in March of being notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN. The agreement will see the defendant permanently barred from “possessing, accessing, using, or disclosing any of Epic’s confidential or trade secret information,” or helping anyone else do the same. Epic filed the action…
Ahead of Carcass Clad’s reveal at last month’s PC Gaming Show, I had the chance to speak to Wrong Organ devs Jeffrey Tomec and Dave van Egdom about the studio’s follow-up to its breakout hit, Mouthwashing. Carcass Clad is a very different sort of game, but with familiar themes and atmosphere. The bulk of our…
XA couple weeks after its early access launch, things are going mostly pretty well for the steampunk-mechs-in-the-desert game Sand: Raiders of Sophie. An update that rolled out on July 2 caused some surprise headaches and had to be rolled back, which isn’t great, but on the brighter side the game looks to be a legitimate…
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is a “tactical fleet simulator,” which basically means it’s a sci-fi strategy game with real-time combat set in the cold black void of (Tim Curry voice) space. It’s quite well regarded—PC Gamer magazine gave it an 83% review score in April 2005, according to Metacritic—but, as you can tell by that…
Before Black Myth: Wukong or Phantom Blade: Zero, there was The Scroll of Taiwu, a Chinese indie game that attracted millions of players since it debuted in early access on Steam in 2018. Now, eight years later, it has hit 1.0, marking the end of a long journey that started before Chinese-developed games became all…
“MY WIFE WOULD DIVORCE ME ON THE SPOT”. Since Commodore International rose from the ashes of the once-great computer firm, we’ve seen the superb C64 Ultimate hit the market – an FPGA-based recreation of the iconic 8-bit home computer which ticked pretty much every box. However, it’s fair to say that the company’s follow-up product…