It’s totally free! It’s fair to say that 80’s classics The Legend of Zelda and The Tower of Druaga have influenced countless video games over the years. Zelda not only established the template for a series which has sold millions since its inception in 1986, but it has also inspired a host of imitators over…
Take a look at most modern PC gaming setups, and you’ll find some RGB lighting somewhere. Blazing LEDs and PC gaming have gone hand in hand for what feels like generations now, but I want to know where you stand—are you down with the RGB clown, or does the whole neon-lit endeavour make your stomach…
Derby ‘thrilled to welcome her home’. A statue of Lara Croft is set to be installed in Derby city centre, following a successful crowdfunding campaign to bring the iconic Tomb Raider hero home to the town that kicked off a global gaming phenomenon. The nine-foot fibreglass statue was originally installed at London’s Camden Market, where…
World of Warcraft: Forever has a new two-name system, given it’ll be taking place on one big megaserver—which has a few advantages, like making sure you can typically get your chosen first name without the sheer volume of players snapping it out from under you. Naturally, being a bunch of silly geezers, WoW players have…
We recently had a full archive of PC Gamer magazines digitised for us, covering the very inception of our illustrious 33 year-old publication right up to 2008. Some lucky human had to dig into the archive in the regularly flooded basement of PC Gamer towers and scan each and every page. I’ve been noodling around…
The port was first rumoured back in 1991 in the pages of Nintendo Power. Thanks to being an official Nintendo-branded magazine, Nintendo Power was well known in the ’80s and ’90s for featuring coverage of games well in advance of its competition. It’s true, a lot of these games would later grace the pages of…
World of Warcraft: Forever‘s beta has been utterly rammed with server issues—issues that I’m pleased to say were fixed in relatively short order, and one I certainly don’t resent anybody for. What does jump my eyebrows up my head is the fact that its developers are shocked that the game’s popular. For those not in…
Claws for thought. Both Nintendo and Sony got in on the new release fun last week, and with our latest look at the UK charts now in, it’s time to see which came out on top. Alas, if the headline wasn’t enough of a giveaway, it was Marvel’s Wolverine that clawed its way to victory…
“We’re definitely getting close to the final phase”. Just last week, we received the perhaps unsurprising news that 007 First Light was going to be delayed on Switch 2. Again. That ‘Summer 2026’ window has been pushed to March 2027, and in light of the new release date, developer IO Interactive has spoken about its…
“I’ll believe it when I see the ROM”. The subject of AI use in the world of retro gaming has already caused plenty of discussion, and another project has emerged over the weekend to add more fuel to the fire. As spotted by @ray_castello on social media, retroports has just released footage of GoldenEye 007…