Lithium-ion batteries are so ubiquitous that you’re probably reading these words on a device that has one installed right now. They’re pretty handy. They charge fast and can hold a lot of juice for your laptop or phone, so why wouldn’t we just keep using them forever ? Well, they require lithium which has to…
I like puzzle games but I’m not especially good at them, so it’s very important to me that any puzzle game I play finds the sweet spot between looking difficult, but not actually being difficult. I love The Talos Principle games, for instance, but I noped out of the third part of the Road to…
It’s not like the Half-Life 3 rumour mill ever went away, but over the past few years the tinfoil hats have been a-twitching more than ever. If it’s not one thing, it’s another: the anniversary of Half-Life 2, the latest mention of “HLX” (speculated to be an internal codename) in the Steam backend or, my…
My life as an Overwatch fan is a paradox. On the one hand, no one is more critical of the ten-year-old hero shooter than I, but I’ve also accepted my role as number one Overwatch glazer on PC Gamer’s team—I have like two existential crises a day. The last ten years of Overwatch have certainly…
Despite being one of 2025’s biggest flops, MindsEye is one of the more fascinating failures in recent memory, largely because of the seemingly paranoid allegations of developer Build A Rocket Boy’s co-CEOs Mark Gerhard and former Rockstar executive Leslie Benzies. Both before and after MindsEye’s release, Benzies and Gerhard have insisted—without substantiation—that its middling reputation…
Look, you’re no Agent 47. You’re not an expert in stealth, assassination, and the disposal of corpses. You’re just a normal person in a regular hotel room who has accidentally, or maybe “accidentally,” murked some dude. And now you and your friends need to get rid of the evidence. In physics-stealth game We Are So…
Hideo Kojima knows a thing or two about making videogames—he’s made a few you may have heard of, like the series and the games. That’s probably why he was set to headline this year’s Game Developers Conference as its keynote speaker. But with GDC now just a month away, there’s bad news for the conference…
developer Sandfall Interactive has claimed yet another win, and as videogame trophies go, this one is pretty rare. The studio has been awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by France’s Ministry of Culture, an honor that acknowledges “people who have distinguished themselves through their creations in the artistic or literary field or through the…
Surprise, surprise—the Stardew Valley 1.7 update is making a ton of noise in the new year, and it just so happens the beloved farming sim celebrates its tenth anniversary soon. Try as he might, creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone can’t stay away from the farm life for very long, and I can’t say that I blame…
I’m gonna show you two clips of walking in videogames: The first is from The Outer Worlds 2, and the second is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Here’s The Outer Worlds 2… …and here’s KCD2. You seeing what I’m seeing? The difference is small, but the effect is huge. In The Outer Worlds 2, which I…