Author: Harvey Randall
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Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting a ‘competitive multiplayer fighting game’ in 2025
Avatar: The Last Airbender should be a prime cut of gaming beef. Elements-based martial arts, a wide open world with plenty of established lore, a gorgeous art style, and enough nostalgia to build a franchise on. Yet despite being such a solid piece of kids’ T.V it transcends its demographic, being a good watch for…
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World of Warcraft’s subscription is about to get almost 3,000% more expensive in Argentina—and it’ll ‘only get worse with inflation’
Last month, Argentinian World of Warcraft players found a nasty surprise in their inbox—an email from Blizzard announcing two separate price hikes to their World of Warcraft subscriptions, making the game prohibitively expensive. Firstly, though, some context is in order. Last November, fellow PC Gamer writer Joshua Wolens covered the explosive increase of Steam prices…
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director wants series vets and newbies alike to be surprised by its twist and turns, seeing the remake as more than ‘just a callback’
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth isn’t coming to PC any time soon—but there are signs of hope, which means I’m allowed to be hyped for it, and definitely won’t get burned by a year-long wait. Especially not after finishing the FF7 Remake last week. (I’m hoping if I write this down, it’ll become real). Until then…
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D&D reveals September 2024 release date for the start of its big rules revamp, sheds light on two multiverse-hopping campaigns, and promises the launch of its shiny virtual tabletop
Dungeons & Dragons has a busy year ahead of it. With the revised Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual heralding the start of a new (sort-of) edition, there’s a lot riding on the next few months. Wizards of the Coast certainly isn’t doing anything by halves, now revealing plans for the whole of…
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Helldivers 2 creative director argues games should ‘earn the right to monetize’, says its only pay-to-win item is a revolver that’ll get you gold in a ‘cool gun competition’
Helldivers 2 has been suffering from success—a whirlwind launch that’s now PlayStation’s biggest PC success led to a swarm of server issues bugs, and not the kind you can shoot dead with a beam rifle. Regardless, ambushed developer Arrowhead seems to be taking things in stride and, as PC Gamer’s own Fraser Brown notes: it’s…
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Palworld could have a major problem with an item that’s meant to boost your chances of capturing pals, but lowers it instead
There are some practical ways to boost your chances of nabbing a Pal in Palworld—for example, you can get around an initial check by throwing your sphere from behind (called a ‘back bonus’). The most reliable way, however, is using a Lifmunk Effigy: Items scattered around the world that boost your capture rate. Or at…
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Infamous swatter-for-hire Torswats likely arrested after a private investigator worked with a WoW Twitch streamer and the FBI to take them down
Schools, streamers, and even authors have all been the victim of swatter-for-hire Torswats, as was revealed by Motherboard in April last year. Using the messaging app Telegram, the Torswats ‘service’ has been offering swattings for cash—$75 to shut down a school, for example—and has been linked to a rash of criminal activity across the United…
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Alan Wake 2’s latest patch could be a sign of more anti-jumpscare toggles in horror games to come—and I’m all for it
I love listening to people dissect horror stories. I enjoy a good horror comic, and that hot wash of goosebumps you get after a page-turn reveal. I like dipping my toes into gothic fiction and horror from time to time—the kind that leaves you discreetly double-checking your locks before bed each night. Despite all of…
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Gary Bowser, charged with paying Nintendo a sum he’ll never be able to afford, talks about his life after prison: ‘The sentence was like a message to other people’
Canadian programmer Gary Bowser was charged with severe fines and jail time after a Nintendo lawsuit accused him of “conspiracy to circumvent technological measures and to traffic in circumvention devices”—piracy, to unspool the legal speech—in 2020. Bowser was a member of Team-Xecuter, a group of hackers who had facilitated the use of various ROMs (read…
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Helskate’s a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater-meets-roguelike with good ideas, but its Steam Next Fest demo left me feeling like it can’t land its combos yet
I was pretty excited about Helskate—though after trying its Steam Next Fest demo, I’m not sure it’s really pulled its disparate parts together in the way it needs to. Not yet, anyway—it’s a pre-early access glimpse at what its devs have been cooking, so there’s still room for improvement. I had a big soft spot…