Author: Rick Lane
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Starfield player completes the main story by whacking every enemy to death with his gun, an ability some players didn’t know was in the game at all
Starfield lets spacefarers battles enemies with both guns and melee weapons, but it also allows players to bash their foes with their gun. And it appears not everyone knows about this, as inadvertently revealed by the YouTuber Causal Loop, who completed the game’s main using only the butt of his weapon. “Guns are designed for…
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Valve ‘accidentally’ leaks the earliest Left4Dead prototype, and it was a Counter-Strike mod all along
Valve didn’t just update Half-Life for the game’s recent 25th anniversary. It also spruced up Counter-Strike 1.6 to take advantage of the features and changes added to Valve’s 1998 masterpiece. Yet in doing so, Valve seemingly inadvertently opened the door to a fascinating slice of gaming history – the first prototype of Left 4 Dead.…
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25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended
Half-Life celebrated its 25th anniversary last Sunday, and Valve laid out a buffet of Lambda-shaped treats to mark the occasion. The company added new multiplayer maps to the game, released an hour-long documentary delving into its design, and fixed a few of its most resilient bugs. But there’s one bug that escaped Valve’s digital butterfly…
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Sources claim the Knights of the Old Republic remake isn’t dead, though what’s really going on is anyone’s guess
It’s been yet another rollercoaster week for Embracer’s beleaguered remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was “delayed indefinitely” last year after Texan studio Aspyr Media was relieved of development duties. On Friday, reports emerged that Embracer’s boss had refused comment on the fate of the game, stating with exquisite irony “I…
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Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an ‘agonising process,’ but that restructuring is ‘how we win’
Layoffs have been one of the defining events of the games industry this year, with thousands of jobs being cut across dozens of companies, all attempting to slash costs as the rapid economic growth of the pandemic years comes screeching to a halt. No company is more emblematic of both these extremes than Embracer Group.…
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Dave the Diver studio’s zombie survival sim gets its pre-alpha playtest next week
Dave the Diver is one of PC Gamer’s favourite games of 2023, no small feat in a year as crammed with great releases as this one has been. In his review from July, Chris called it “easily the best game of 2023” saying “When I finished the final boss at 35 hours in, I felt…
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17 years after its release, the best Star Wars strategy game gets converted to 64-bit
November is a time for looking back at the past, whether that’s through Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving, or in a more recent tradition, randomly patching up old-ass games. Last week, Valve were patching decades-old bugs in Half-Life as part of the game’s 25’th anniversary celebrations. Now Star Wars: Empire at War is getting 64-bit support, 17…
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If the hundreds of hours of Fallout: New Vegas just aren’t enough for you, here’s a mod that adds infinite quests
According to the website How Long To Beat, Fallout: New Vegas takes an average of 131 hours to complete to 100%. That number doesn’t include the four chunks of story DLC the game received after launch, which collectively add another 23 hours to the game. Nor does it account for the 43 pages of quest…
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The most important games and moments in 30 years of PC gaming, part 1: 1993-2003
PC Gamer 390 (Image credit: Future) This article first appeared as part of a supplement included with our blowout 30th anniversary issue of PC Gamer magazine, issue 390, in November 2023. Pick it up for even more great content, including a look back at the magazine’s own storied history over the last three decades. If…
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The most important games and moments in 30 years of PC gaming, part 3: 2014 – 2023
PC Gamer 390 (Image credit: Future) This article first appeared as part of a supplement included with our blowout 30th anniversary issue of PC Gamer magazine, issue 390, in November 2023. Pick it up for a look back at the magazine’s own storied history. For PC Gamer’s own 30th anniversary, we’re journeying through three decades…