I’ve definitely always thought of League of Legends as a young person’s game: Between the fast twitch esports focus, meta Kpop tie-ins, and overtures to streaming and influencer culture, I was all too happy to act my age and hang up my Jayce: The Defender of Tomorrow hammer a full ten years ago.
But it turns out those who kept playing League also kept getting older, because time works the…
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Persona 4 is, for reasons almost entirely to do with the legendary Endurance Run, a profoundly important game to me. So important that when its whizzbang Golden version finally got its PC release back in 2020, I put a hundred hours into it in the blink of an eye.
But something felt a little off, and now I know what it was. Turns out, Persona 4 Golden had some distinct visual diff…
Read moreBill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft and now one of the world’s leading philanthropists, has announced the upcoming publication of a memoir focusing on his early years. Naturally titled Source Code, Gates tells the story of his childhood up to “my decision to leave college and start Microsoft with Paul Allen.”
“I’ve been in the public eye since my early twenties…
Read moreA closed network test for Tekken 8 was held in July, with an initial run that was exclusively available to Playstation 5 owners followed by a broader test that included players on Steam. Letting PC gamers near Tekken 8 meant that someone fired up Cheat Engine because of course they did, at which point they managed to find a partial roster in the game’s files that includes six previously unannou…
Read moreIt’s been a long haul for The Outlast Trials, the four-player horror game from Montreal studio Red Barrels. It was announced in 2019 as a co-op twist on the hit Outlast horror games, and while a planned 2022 release didn’t happen, we did learn that PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens has a friend he wants to “subject to ethically unsound scientific experiments for progress and profit”—his …
Read moreMake today’s Wordle game a guaranteed win with our selection of tips, tricks, and advice. Rush straight over to today’s answer if you need that win in a hurry, browse some general help designed to make not only the April 25 (675) Wordle but every puzzle after it a bit easier, or scroll down for a handy clue.
Three yellows… OK, that’s great… three greens next… that’s e…
Read moreFebruary really was the month of extreme Tekken 8 hype. First, we had the Tekken World Tour Finals giving us a better look at the Heat system and revealing that Nina Williams would be returning to the roster. Last week saw Kazuya Mishima receive a character trailer, showing off flashy particle effects and muscles galore. This week it’s the turn of his son, Jin Kazama, to receive a bombast…
Read moreIn August 2022, Embracer Group added Middle-earth Enterprises to its ever-growing lineup of studios and properties. And it’s not wasting any time doing something with it: Embracer revealed in its Q3 2022 financial report that it now has no less than five LotR games in development.
“There are currently five games in production by external partners, to be released in financial year 2023/24,…
Read moreYesterday saw Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard given regulatory approval by the EU Commission. That’s one major stumbling block out of the way, but Microsoft still faces an uphill battle in the UK and US (and other territories) to get the deal approved. In the UK’s case the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) dropped the bombshell several w…
Read moreDota 2 has gotten a particularly game-bending update this month. Despite its simple name, Gameplay Update 7.36 has changed how all 124 heroes in Dota 2 play by fundamentally tweaking the structure of a character: Every single hero now has an innate ability of some kind, up from a mere… 7 heroes before. To boot, every single hero now has two Facets, a binary choice of gameplay styles or …
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