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Kingdom Hearts 4 finally has a release window, and it's sooner than I expected
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (231+ words) Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites…...
Poll: Do you turn your PC off at night?
6+ hour, 22+ min ago (249+ words) Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show…...
Matthew McConaughey could have played Joel in The Last of Us, but says 'it just wasn't for me at the time"
15+ hour, 19+ min ago (319+ words) Pedro Pascal did a great job, but you can see it, right? On an August 13 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, actor Matthew McConaughey spoke about almost playing Joel in HBO's The Last of Us TV series, and why…...
Simpsons creator Matt Groening implies that a Hit & Run remaster is coming, current showrunner hastily disputes
16+ hour, 58+ min ago (208+ words) PC Gamer First reported by Empire on X, "The Everything App," Simpsons creator Matt Groening may have let slip the existence of some upcoming return for The Simpsons: Hit & Run—though this was immediately disputed by another grandee of the…...
I got so freaked out by the fact that Gordon Freeman is canonically 27 that I decided to find out how old all the other classic FPS protagonists are, and it didn't make me feel better
18+ hour, 43+ min ago (986+ words) Now I'm rapidly approaching 40, the idea of Half-Life being in any way scary seems ridiculous, especially when you compare it to modern horror games and actual real-life terrors like tax returns. But there is one part of Half-Life that still…...
EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026
19+ hour, 16+ min ago (410+ words) Admittedly, I am a very specific type of guy. 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…...
Star Wars: The Old Republic hopes to recapture the 'classic' experience with difficulty options and a new way to start from scratch
19+ hour, 58+ min ago (224+ words) PC Gamer Venture characters seem inspired by the seasonal and ironman modes found in ARPGs. I don't know if Stars Wars: The Old Republic is the best MMO around—or even the best Star Wars MMO around—but there's something…...
RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them
20+ hour, 16+ min ago (1157+ words) You're in this together. Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer's regular RPG column. This week, Harvey Randall is once more stepping onto this site to argue that you should make your RPG companions obstructive, flawed little nightmares, or you're passing…...
The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you're too dumb to appreciate a good story—don't prove them right
21+ hour, 16+ min ago (1083+ words) The delight's in the details. As I sit here, watching Saber Interactive's CEO have a normal one about how generative AI dialogue can totally improve videogames, I can't help but grit my teeth in the same, enamel-grinding fashion I have…...
This Solitaire game is so tiny it can load from a QR code, which is just what I need in the age of massive games and expensive storage
21+ hour, 41+ min ago (200+ words) TinySol is a mini marvel. At a time when game file sizes are growing ever larger and disk space is astonishingly expensive, I increasingly appreciate the value of a small game. And they don't come much smaller than TinySol, a…...