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PC gaming's very own indie-themed Smash Bros. just added the guy from Spelunky, who I now know is named Guy Spelunky
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (196+ words) You know, Guy Spelunky. The guy" from Spelunky. My favorite part of Smash Bros. isn't even really the fighting. It's seeing how in the hell you take characters like Minecraft Steve, Pac-Man, and that scum bastard dog from Duck Hunt…...
Deus Ex, Marathon actor Elias Toufexis doesn't get why people root for games to fail: 'Life is so short, man"
1+ hour, 24+ min ago (300+ words) "Just stop tweeting memes under things for six hours." There are a lot of things Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis didn't ask for, not the least of which is vitriol on social media, as he told PC Gamer associate editor…...
Peak boss doesn't mind us calling it friendslop: 'Why not make a game where the point is to hang out with your friends?"
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (329+ words) "What's more beautiful than that?" "It's fun. It's technically derogatory. But why not lean into that? Because that's what people are saying," Kaman said. "Even if it is kind of mean, I can take it." He said it's useful as…...
Forza Horizon 6 speeds into Steam's top 5 most played games with over 300k concurrent players
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (429+ words) Drive it like it's stolen, even if it was in fact $70 (or $120 for the premium edition). Forza Horizon 6 might be more of the same'in his 84% review, PC Gamer EIC Phil Savage said it was "riding a well-worn track"'but throw…...
Epic reveals first Unreal Engine 6 game, and it's not Fortnite
5+ hour, 23+ min ago (221+ words) Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG…...
I'm not ashamed to admit that The Sims 2 got me into house music, especially since its devs hired the best DJs in the biz to score it
6+ hour, 13+ min ago (590+ words) Nightlife's remixes live rent-free in my head. Real life is terribad right now. What better way to cope than shedding this reality in favour of becoming worryingly invested in the lives of fake videogame people, watching them cock up a…...
Dawn of War 2 review (2009)
8+ hour, 8+ min ago (1615+ words) Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: We played for a bit, and then I went back to my old standbys: C&C3 and Red Alert 2. From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only…...
We live in a world where every single Hatsune Miku is canon, which means that includes Helldivers Miku and Pyramid Head Miku
8+ hour, 13+ min ago (219+ words) Kara is an evergreen writer. Having spent five years as a games journalist guiding, reviewing, or generally waffling about the weird and wonderful, she's more than happy to tell you all about which obscure indie games she's managed to sink…...
The design lead of Half-Life's biggest competitor says that its publisher was so 'pissed off' by the time the game launched that it didn't bother testing it properly: 'We got trashed in the press because of bugs"
9+ hour, 13+ min ago (411+ words) "It really hurt it when it came to reviews." Back in the halcyon days of 1998, Ritual Entertainment's Sin was shaping up to be the hottest shooter released that year. An over-the-top, hyper-violent gunfest with the backing of John Romero and…...
A game developer compared Godot and Unity by making the same game in both engines, and he's found a clear winner
10+ hour, 13+ min ago (330+ words) Godot is smaller, faster, and quicker to load than Unity, according to tests run by designer Thomas Grov. For well over a decade, Unity has been one of, if not the primary engine for indie game development, and has powered…...