Author: Rick Lane
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It looks like modding tools for Cities: Skylines 2 are still several months away
Like cutting the red tape on a six-lane gravel highway, the launch of Cities: Skylines 2 has been both huge and rough. While undoubtedly offering an improved core experience over the original, the game’s performance issues were so severe that Colossal Order started warning about them before the game came out. Moreover, certain core features…
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The most important games and moments in 30 years of PC gaming, part 2: 2004 – 2013
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. As PC Gamer’s 30th anniversary celebrations continue, we’re taking a trip…
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Hundreds of Norwegian World of Warcraft players are furious after a bizarre new bug causes their game to freeze repeatedly
Well, here’s an odd one. Last night, hundreds of furious World of Warcraft players took to Blizzard’s forums to voice their complaints about a bug that is making the game all but unplayable, which seems to have emerged from the recent 10.2 update. The twist? All of these players are located in Norway. The issue…
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Starfield community patchers are frustrated by the game’s lack of mod support: ‘A lot of stuff is really broken compared to the other games’
A group of modders behind the Starfield Community Patch have expressed their frustration with the game’s lack of mod support, which is inhibiting their attempts to fix the many bugs present in Bethesda’s space RPG. They go on to claim that modding does not appear to be a priority for Bethesda’s latest RPG at all,…
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Halloween’s over but you can still scare yourself witless with this VR recreation of Amnesia
There are some things in life that I admire but can’t claim to properly understand. These include the literary works of James Joyce, the vegan lifestyle, and people who want to play incredibly scary games in VR. I like horror games, but there’s a limit on my tolerance, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent landed right…
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Overwatch 2’s latest hero doesn’t just look like the Moana guy, he directly references him too
Blizzard recently introduced its 39th Hero to its multiplayer shooter Overwatch 2, in the form of Mauga, a tall, thick-set Samoan tank who, players have noted, looks rather like Pixar’s portrayal of the Polynesian demigod Maui in its animated film Moana. Well, it appears there’s more of a link between the two than just a…
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Half-Life 3: The complete history of the greatest game never made
Features This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 387 in August 2023. Every month we run exclusive features exploring the world of PC gaming—from behind-the-scenes previews, to incredible community stories, to fascinating interviews, and more. Half-Life 2 was a phenomenon, a game so good one of the few complaints levelled against it was…
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RoboCop: Rogue City review – double-A throwback too faithful for its own good
Teyon blends bloody linear shootouts with light open world action for an entertaining, if unadventurous, RoboCop experience. RoboCop: Rogue City review RoboCop: Rogue City would have been the absolute biz back in 2005. This might sound like a criticism, and to a certain extent it is. But I mean it equally as a compliment…
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Prodeus review – a fearsome hybrid of old and new FPS ideas
[ad_1] Bounding Box delivers an anachronistic high-wire act, and the perhaps the best shooter outright since Doom Eternal. Every retro shooter straddles the line between classic and modern design, whether it’s a new game built in an old engine like Ion Fury and Wrath, or a good old-fashioned murderfest that uses cutting edge tech…