Following the success of the Fallout TV adaptation, Fallout 76 has—perhaps inevitably—attracted a new audience, reaching over a million players in a single day according to the series’ official X account. Taking Steam as a sole metric (the game is also on Sony and Xbox consoles), Fallout 76 reached its all-time player peak only two […]
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Last year, we were slightly surprised to learn that not only does the German government sponsor a videogame award ceremony, it gives serious cash prizes to most of the winners. At the 2023 German Computer Game Awards—aka the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP)—retro RPG Chained Echoes won Best German Game and a €100,000 endowment, and at this […]
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I have a high tolerance for fetch quests. If Genshin Impact wants me to exterminate the same group of hilichurls over and over to search for a vengeance-obsessed NPC’s lost sword, then I’ll do it—I’ve got time to kill. But when an RPG jams that kind of drudgery front and center into the main storyline […]
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Like so many of us, I bounced off Fallout 76 back in 2018. Bethesda’s micro MMO wasn’t very good back then—an opinion that even Todd Howard shares these days—but the studio stuck with it, reverse engineering its Appalachian aberration into an engrossing multiplayer wasteland complete with NPCs, settlements, factions, and years’ worth of quality-of-life updates. […]
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In a strange and unfortunate turn, indie developer Flaming Fowl Studios, known for past games including Fable Fortune and Gloomhaven, has released a demo for a new game on Steam while simultaneously laying off more than half its employees. “Today we are releasing a demo of Ironmarked, a new game we have been working on […]
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Final Fantasy 14 is no stranger to crossover events. Most recently, a FF16 crossover where you could wear Clive Rosfield’s clothes and steal his dog hit the servers. But it’s also had some cultural exchanges with Nier: Automata, GARO, Dragon Quest, and (most relevant to the sinful dog in the header image above) Yo-kai Watch, […]
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Final Fantasy 14—a game that itself received a complete 2.0 revamp—will get a 2.0 version of the preview benchmark tool for its upcoming expansion, Dawntrail. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Why? Well, FF14 is having a massive graphics overhaul for its 7.0 update. This isn’t just a few new shaders slapped onto […]
Read MoreEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes has a lot weighing on its shoulders. The new turn-based RPG has to deliver to crowdfunding backers, fulfill its promise of being an ode to ’90s great Suikoden, and prove that its all-star creative team still have the stuff. That’s enough pressure for anyone, but recently it’s been further burdened by […]
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Grinding Gear Games is warning followers to change their passwords after a post containing a phishing link appeared briefly on the Path of Exile page on Steam. “Earlier today, a malicious news post containing a phishing link went up on the Path of Exile Steam page from a compromised account,” the studio wrote in a […]
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First reported by PCGamesN, ubiquitous videogame mod site NexusMods has been experiencing interruptions due to an influx of traffic as new and old Fallout fans check out the games after watching the show. Fallouts 4, New Vegas, and 3 are the third, fourth, and eighth all-time biggest games on the site, commanding over 2 billion […]
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Blizzard is rounding up all the maggots it can find and shipping them off to Tiddywinkles UK, a specialist wildlife hospital, this Earth Day. The number of maggots sent off depends on how many likes one tweet gets. Well, specifically, the person rounding up all the grubs is actually Diablo 4‘s Duriel the Maggot King, […]
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The Fallout TV show is continuing to have an impressive ripple effect on its source material. Last week saw Fallout 76 hit its highest-ever concurrent player count on Steam, while Fallout Shelter saw a humble bump in player count and revenue. Unsurprisingly, the game reaping the biggest benefits from the show’s success is Fallout 4. […]
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While checking out the latest Witcher 3 secrets from xLetalis, I came across something that startled me: The Witcher 3 has its very own Unofficial Patch-style mod, Brothers in Arms, that not only gets after persistent bugs left in the nine year-old game, but also restores some minor cut content to boot. A great preponderance […]
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The next Fallout is so far away it’s not even worth speculating about when it’ll happen. Fortunately, just like in Star Wars, there is another. You can always play a Wasteland instead. The game that directly influenced the original Fallout eventually gave rise to a series that collected the debt by continuing the style of […]
Read MoreI’m a Witcher 3 obsessive, revisiting CD Project’s opus once every two or three years, but that barely holds a candle to the Witcher 3 devotion of xLetalis, a YouTuber who’s been documenting the massive game’s secrets and esoterica since release, and is still finding new surprises to this day. The latest, as reported by […]
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Original Fallout creator and long time CRPG developer Tim Cain has made a deep dive video about the Fallout TV show, this just one week after he shared his experience at the Hollywood premiere and his disapproval of some of the series’ more rude fans. The verdict? Cain still loves the show, and doesn’t seem […]
Read MoreAfter a long, rocky road, the sequel to Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters is finally taking flight. A Kickstarter campaign to support the development of Free Stars: Children of Infinity got underway earlier this week, and it’s already a major success, having tripled its $100,000 goal in just three days. For those who haven’t been […]
Read MoreAfter a lengthy absence, Fable is returning for more folk hero fantasy. While the Fable reboot was first revealed at the 2020 Xbox Games showcase, the ensuing years of silence left a lot of question marks about the series reboot. Was Fable 4 still in the works? Would it end up being called something awful […]
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 has another update coming this month, bringing good tidings for anyone fretting over whether their Pawns have contracted the terrible scourge that is dragonsplague. Not only does it make the disease less appear less frequently, it also makes it easier to spot whether your Pawns are afflicted. Dragonsplague, if you don’t know, […]
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Thanks to the excellent new Amazon show, the world is currently going wild for Fallout, to the extent that the old games are rocketing up the charts again. The series was instantly renewed for a second season, and modders have got to work cramming TV stuff into the games. It’s Fallout mania! Wait, didn’t Bethesda […]
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was revealed yesterday, and is set to be a considerably larger and more comprehensive representation of medieval life. As part of this, it’s set to address one of the more controversial elements of the first game, its lack of diversity. In an interview with IGN, Warhorse was asked directly about its […]
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The Fallout TV show is a bit good. Indeed, here at PC Gamer we think it is the best Fallout has been since the highs of New Vegas. So, you know, go watch it! But while it’s true that the TV show is good, it’s fair to say it’s only showing a very narrow slice […]
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Visions of Mana is the first new entry in Square Enix’s Mana series in 15 years, and with that comes some fundamental changes. Following my hands-on preview with Visions of Mana, I had the chance to ask producer Masaru Oyamada if cooperative multiplayer was ever considered for Visions of Mana, and if multiplayer had a […]
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The success of the new Fallout TV show has led inevitably to the observation that a ton of people are now excited about Fallout, but there’s no new Fallout game to play. Fallout 76 is over five years old, and Fallout 4 turns nine this year. Bethesda is going to make a Fallout 5, but […]
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Warhorse Studios has finally unveiled what it admits is probably “the most public secret in the gaming industry”, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. The medieval RPG is a direct continuation of the 2018 game, once again following peasant-turned-knight Henry, accompanied by his posh mate, Hans, as they navigate a civil war in 15th century Bohemia. The […]
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The big focus of Larian’s post on Baldur’s Gate 3’s upcoming Patch 7 was the game’s expanded evil endings, but the studio also revealed that the first of Baldur’s Gate 3’s official mod tools are coming in this update. In a conversation with me at this year’s Game Developers Conference, Larian CEO Swen Vincke indicated […]
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Still basking in a post-BAFTA sweep afterglow, Larian has shared an update on Steam detailing what to expect from Baldur’s Gate 3 in the immediate future, and from the studio further down the line. The marquee inclusions of Baldur’s Gate 3’s upcoming Patch 7 are the game’s expanded evil ending cutscenes, a corollary to the […]
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Larian might have decided against making Baldur’s Gate 4, but the studio is already hard at work outlining its next project. Or should I say, projects. In its latest community update shared on Steam, Larian revealed that in lieu of another Baldur’s Gate sequel, it is currently developing two new projects. “As an independent studio […]
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I’ll front with you real quick, I’ve never played a game of Caravan. Apparently, neither have half the PC Gamer team, even the ones who sank hundreds of hours into Fallout New Vegas. It seems like there’s a surprising lack of interest in the card game, or, according to a good chunk of the community, […]
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In a new interview with Aftermath CDPR’s Pawel Sasko, associate director of the next Cyberpunk game (codenamed Orion, but we’ll call it Cyberpunk 2 for now), discussed some of the changes in production the studio’s made since the infamously botched Cyberpunk 2077 launch. The crunch in the run-up to release got so intense that some […]
Read MoreAny player of DnD will know that role playing around camp sessions will, almost always, descend into some sort of shenanigans involving drinking. For example, recently I was in a session where the party’s spore druid made tea and put one too many interesting fungi in the brew. Needless to say, there was not much […]
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