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.World of Warcraft's no stranger to borrowed power—after Blizzard learnt its lesson making borrowed power features the entire focus...

Epic Games has reached a proposed settlement with a former contractor who it accused in March of being notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN. The agreement will see the defendant permanently barred from "possessing, accessing, using, or disclosing any of Epic’s confidential or trade secret information," or helping anyone else do the same.Epic filed the action in March, alleging that AdiraFN, who had revealed information on numerous Fortnite collaborations before they were...

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is a "tactical fleet simulator," which basically means it's a sci-fi strategy game with real-time combat set in the cold black void of (Tim Curry voice) space. It's quite well regarded—PC Gamer magazine gave it an 83% review score in April 2005, according to Metacritic—but, as you can tell by that review date, it's also a little aged. More important than that, though, it's also free...

Before Black Myth: Wukong or Phantom Blade: Zero, there was The Scroll of Taiwu, a Chinese indie game that attracted millions of players since it debuted in early access on Steam in 2018. Now, eight years later, it has hit 1.0, marking the end of a long journey that started before Chinese-developed games became all the rage.The Scroll of Taiwu isn't an action game, and there's nothing soulslike about it...

It's hard to imagine now, but Cyberpunk 2077 was an unmitigated disaster when it launched back in 2020. The PC version wasn't too bad, relatively speaking, but the console version was so wretched that Sony literally kicked it off the PlayStation Store. It was so far gone that several months after launch, with CD Projekt just beginning to start the work of cleaning up the mess it made, we recommended...

On July 1, Fenris Creations (formerly CCP) completed the full open source release of its in-house Carbon Engine, the tech behind long-running MMO EVE Online and early access space survival game EVE Frontier. The Carbon Engine's repositories are available now on GitHub.It's an impressive, surprising move in a time when proprietary game engines are increasingly rare. Even studios that were once defined by their in-house tech, like CD Projekt and...

The Sims 4 is a noisy game, especially once you've piled on a few expansion packs. You're constantly fielding stray notifications and unsolicited calls from acquaintances asking you for advice, and before you know it you've soiled your pants and bowling night is ruined. Thankfully, the headlining note in a recent Sims 4 patch is a stab at "clearing the noise."As the update blog notes, there are loads of new...

We're in the endgame now for Grand Theft Auto 6, and with just 139 days to go players are beginning to scrimp and save for its anticipated release—if they haven't pre-ordered the standard or controversial ultimate edition already. We've seen some resourceful players utilise Bing and Microsoft Rewards to get an impressive discount, but that's not the only way you can get some dollars off the price. Another fortunate gamer...

Paradox Interactive, that studio that publishes all those grand strategy games with oodles of DLC, announced via a forum thread and a post on X earlier this week that inactive Paradox accounts will be "cleaned up" come March of next year. In other words, those accounts will be deleted if they don't show some sign of life in the intervening months.The posts clarify that an inactive account is one that...

As part of this week's Theory of Evolution challenge in Forza Horizon 6's Series 2, you need to earn three stars at the Festival Loop speed zone in the 2001 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR TM. Finding this challenge on the very cluttered map is your first hurdle.The second is nabbing the full three-star completion. While the Lancer is one of my favourite cars in the game, it's not quite...