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One original Halo designer blasts the new remake, wonders if the point was just ‘Occupying an enormous art team while you figure out what to do’

One original Halo designer…

Halo: Combat Evolved is getting a second remake and there are plenty of reasons it’s sort of an odd…
Pay Attention To These 7 Summer Game Fest Indies You Might Have Missed Amid All The Hype

Pay Attention To These…

Fungus-infested Thatcher-era nightmares. Sega Saturn-styled subversions. Here are a few gems that might have slipped your radar.Source
Dispatch’s superheroic efforts have changed my mind about its episodic release schedule

Dispatch’s superheroic efforts have…

Superhero narrative romp Dispatch, judging by the two episodes that I’ve played so far, is rad. It’s an evolution…
Hide-and-seek game where you paint your body to blend in sells a million copies in four days

Hide-and-seek game where you…

In Meccha Chameleon, you begin play as a featureless, white, blobby biped—but you don’t stay that way. Indeed, it’s…
Quiz time! Are these real thread titles from the Crusader Kings subreddit?

Quiz time! Are these…

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia We’ve got…
Blizzard sues to kill another World of Warcraft private server for ‘large scale, egregious, and ongoing infringement of [its] intellectual property’

Blizzard sues to kill…

Earlier this year, the private World of Warcraft server Turtle WoW announced it would shut down after Blizzard served…
I went to the UK’s largest rock festival to see its one and only videogame band

I went to the…

Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team)…
Battlefield had a messy predecessor, Codename Eagle, that predates even DICE’s involvement in the series

Battlefield had a messy…

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits…
Spore devs say the evolution game’s previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they ‘built a fantasy in people’s minds that was unachievable’

Spore devs say the…

Spore is the greatest game that never was. Clear as day, I remember the wonder the pitch instilled in…
Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies vet tells me the theme park ‘assembly line’ MMO just isn’t viable anymore, especially as dev costs spike: ‘We hit the wall’

Ultima Online and Star…

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll…