The cult classic Half-Life 2 mod series Entropy: Zero has another entry in the works, and speaking as a fan of Thief, Deus Ex, and all things immersive sim, Entropy: Zero 2 - Progenitors may be the most exciting one yet.Entropy: Zero has always presented the bad guys' side of things in Half-Life, but Progenitors trades the first two episodes' standard Combine trooper for a super sneaky assassin type⁠—she strikes...

When I recently spoke to Stellar Jockeys lead artist Jack Monahan and lead designer Hugh Monahan about Brigador Killers, a big focus for me was approachability versus depth. Most of my favorite games are super-crusty and complex RPGs or immersive sims, and the studios that made them⁠—Troika, Looking Glass, Obsidian, to name a few⁠—often found sustained financial success difficult or impossible.You need some level of mainstream buy-in to keep the...

I've been playing videogames since my Dad was convinced my tiny baby hands were strong enough to grip a Mega Drive controller for more than five seconds. I'm sure he was just trying to convince my mum that the CD add-on was worth the insane amount of money—it definitely wasn't, as I'm told it broke within mere weeks of him buying it. I'm still not convinced that my Mum didn't...

If what Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier says is true and making an indie game is like buying a lottery ticket, Meccha Chameleon has hit the jackpot. It seems uncontestable as the friendslop hit of the year now, with over 15 million copies sold in less than a month. Developer lemorion_1224 thanked players for all the attention in a Steam community blog post. "Thanks a million," the post reads. "Get ready...

Last week, Marvel Rivals made the headlines for a familiar reason: one of its new skins is on the bleeding edge of horny superhero costume design. But in a refreshing change of pace, it was the boys' turn this time around—Captain America got a summer swimsuit skin with proportions so absurd they'd make a Gears of War character blush and an egregiously huge bulge for his… Washington Monument. It jiggles...

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.Larian didn't want to make Baldur's Gate 4, BioWare veteran James Ohlen didn't want to make Baldur's Gate 4, so who's going to make it? I'm not going to answer that question,...

As spotted by Japan's IT Media News, a paper presented at Purdue University's MFS Cultural AI Conference called AI Fiction in the Wild performed a fascinating study of half a million anonymous English-language ChatGPT-user conversations using WildChat, and found some real oddities. Well, one in particular.The study's purpose was to analyze the significant number of AI prompts that boil down to variations on "write me some fanfic." Which there sure...

Anytime you're talking about the hottest game on Steam, there's an evergreen unspoken caveat: 'after Counter-Strike, of course.' CS2 is unquestionably Steam's killer app—it has well over a million concurrent players as I write this according to SteamDB, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. But don't count out the game it once absorbed and then spat out: its predecessor, Global Offensive. According to SteamDB, it hit an all-time...

Weird WeekendWeird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager.One of the more intriguing announcements for shooterheads this summer was Crossfire. A...

A new Fallout 4 mod, Double Feature, is the fourth collaboration by modders Kinggath and co. with Elder Scrolls icon Wes Johnson—the man behind characters like Molag Bal, Sheogorath, and a whole lot more—as well as Fallout actors Jan Johns and Leer Leary. It's part of Kinggath's annual modding for charity project, which led to the creation of similar mods like Shady Motives and Trunk's Malfunction.The mod's associated Alzheimer's fundraiser...