Who could have guessed it's a bad idea to put AI in a fridge? Literally everyone, but that didn't stop Samsung from selling fridges with an "AI Family Hub" to keep track of when you added fresh food and suggest recipes. Also, it randomly breaks when updated and all your food goes off.At least, it did in Korea. Just before the Chuseok holiday, when everyone's fridges were stocked for visiting...

In the 1990s, Spanish videogame label Gaelco was responsible for a string of arcade games (and also electronic dartboards) that hardly anyone outside Spain knows about, bar perhaps the occasional breakout like World Rally.Retro specialists QUByte Interactive are bringing two of Gaelco's obscurities to Steam this year, resurrecting arcade action games Thunder Hoop and its sequel TH Strikes Back. The genetically engineered and oddly named Thunder Hoop of the title...

We do a lot of thinking about digital storefronts here at PCG, and a great struggle is that we don't want to demonstrate too much bias in favor of Steam. But Valve's platform just does it better.It's not perfect: Uneven moderation has rightly come under the most scrutiny in recent years, and I find those stories about how hyperprofitable Valve is a little hard to stomach in the face of...

(Image credit: Owlcat)It was Pathfinder: Kingmaker's eighth birthday yesterady, so I'd like to shout out one of my all-time favorite bits of fantasy character art. This Orc assassin portrait basically captured my go-to, home base character for every fantasy RPG: I like being sneaky, I like doing DPS with a short sword or two, and I like orcs.I even chopped and screwed a version of this image to work as...

Dungeon Master(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer's regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming's most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke.CRPGs like Disco Elysium, Baldur's Gate 3 and Esoteric Ebb love to get weird, but no videogame can truly compare to the oddities that a good tabletop session can spit out. Throw...

Opinion: Skyrim's main quest is better than most of its sidequests. There was an intense contrast between how fun Oblivion's Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, and Daedric Prince sidequests were and how boring its main questline was. Even the Fighter's Guild had some twists. I think that experience must have traumatized a generation of players, because I can't think of any other reason why people say the same thing about Skyrim.In...

Terminally Online(Image credit: Future)This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer's very own MMO column. Every other week, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we've all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice.The Elder Scrolls Online's developers have had a rough couple of years, starting with the scrapping of Project Blackbird...

The recent trend of announcing new expansions for older games—most notably Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3—makes total sense when you look at the long tail on some of yesterday's classics. Beloved games now have a tendency to stick around for so long that new blockbusters are fighting for their lives against perennial Steam favourites that look like they could've been released yesterday. The likes of Cyberpunk 2077...

I'll make this quick: Whatever you had planned for the weekend, you've got to carve four-and-a-half hours out for a last-minute swerve into the late '90s. Six months in the making, YouTube essayist Majuular is back with the (I believe) penultimate video in his multi-year Ultima series. "This one was a doozy," he wrote in the comments. It's Ultima Online."From its unlikely formation at the behest of Richard Garriott and...

Konami really goes all-out for Tokyo Game Show. It had the coolest booth at the convention two years in a row on the strength of extremely good cosplay. Last year it was thanks to the perfectly creepy student from Silent Hill f, while this year Castlevania got the spotlight. I shot a quick video of the actor playing Belmont's Curse protagonist Rose Belmont, but other times I walked by there...