Tag: games

Zerg Rush! Blizzard drops first cards from its StarCraft x Hearthstone crossover mini-set

Zerg Rush! Blizzard drops…

Hearthstone’s “biggest mini-set ever” is set to launch next week, bringing Blizzard’s legendary RTS StarCraft to the game with…
High-flying RPG city builder Airborne Empire has launched on Steam, and it’s testing my balancing skills in more ways than one

High-flying RPG city builder…

My flying city in Airborne Empire is tilted at a 1 degree angle. That’s not a big deal: it’s…
Modders just shadow dropped a PC port of the original Banjo-Kazooie with ultrawide support, improved controls, and quality-of-life features

Modders just shadow dropped…

The bear and the bird are finally home. You might have expected that Banjo-Kazooie would get a PC version…
Despite the big Baldur’s Gate 3 update in the works, Larian says its ‘full attention’ is now focused on its next game

Despite the big Baldur’s…

We still don’t know how Larian plans to follow the massive success of Baldur’s Gate 3, but whatever it…
The new RPG from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs, asks a bold question: What if Geralt was a vampire?

The new RPG from…

When Rebel Wolves teased its first project back in 2022, PC Gamer’s Rich Stanton said it gave him “strong…
Powerwash Simulator studio ends VR development, but at least there are no layoffs happening

Powerwash Simulator studio ends…

Powerwash Simulator was a surprise hit when it popped up in 2022, earning critical plaudits, enviable player numbers, crossovers…
I am a videogame music purist who cannot mute even the most diabolical tracks, help me

I am a videogame…

Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a…
Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work⁠—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access

Hyper Light Breaker has…

At the end of 2024, I got to try one last hour-long preview of Hyper Light Breaker ahead of…
‘Brutally honest’ city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: ‘It’s a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day’

‘Brutally honest’ city builder…

Most city-builders are creative toolsets with an optional management sim attached, canvasses for the imagination with a budget you…
D&D’s revised Monster Manual is aiming to provide oodles of plot hooks along with its stat blocks, and I’m already quietly stealing some for my own encounters

D&D’s revised Monster Manual…

Dungeons & Dragons will be completing its trio of 2024 rules revisions—a little confusingly—on Feburary 18, 2025. Its third…