Volume.art is a nice, free, cool thing on the internet, and I just think that's something worth celebrating these days. The microgame collection sees you manipulating volume sliders through various abstracted, surprising, and very funny ways.It starts strong with "A man named Bow" by Alice Bottino, which kinda reminds me of the Smash Bros Home Run Contest minigame, at least as far as you're winding up to send something from...

At a glanceThe rough prototype looks to have been binned early in development, and it's largely avoided discussion before Doneda's work.Some portions appear to have been part of an interconnected area, others are likely different versions of the same concept.It may have been related to what became the Undead Crypt in the final game.Doneda uses Elden Ring Nightreign to load in and explore what remains of the levels.The files contain...

Gamedev may as well be conducted in a black box as far as many players are concerned, so it can be easy to think of a good game as one where development went smoothly and a bad game as one where things went terribly awry. But in the case of The Outlast Trials, making something sickeningly good took a lot of struggle.As Red Barrels co-founder Philippe Morin told Gamespot in...

This one is thin, man, but it has to do with one of my favorite games of all time, while the circumstances of the rumor are just kind of neat and weird, even if it turns out to be nothing. User Few_Interview8222 on the Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines subreddit reported back from a Genitorturers show in Brooklyn, New York. Partway through the set, the band supposedly told the crowd...

At a glance:Qualcomm gets $2 from Arm in the Delaware jury's decision, part of a yearslong licensing dispute between the two.Yahoo Finance puts their market caps at $210 billion and $243 billion respectively.Qualcomm alleges bad faith action by Arm over tech licensed by the former company from the latter.Qualcomm won $1 on its allegations of Arm withholding contractually obligated support on the licensed tech, and $1 on allegations Arm interfered...

Every time I check in on Star Wars, there's a new stupid little creature (colloquially known as a Glup Shitto) everyone's into. The latest of these is Biddy Blas, a braggadocious pod racer and mama's boy who stands out for his shrill Huttese quips. "Ding dong pookie, ding dong," he crows. "Scrib doon!" If you love that, here's a video of him doing a little victory dance. Biddy Blas victory...

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.Ah, zone chats in MMOs—trade and general chats, /shouts and /yells. Intended as a way to render the social...

Per the United Wizards of the Coast Union (UWOTC-CWA) account on X, WoTC is acting in an entirely unsurprising manner: "Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election." A union composed of employees from the Magic:...

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.I am a stakhanovite, a hero-worker. My productivity is not measured in grams...

Ghostwire: Tokyo, Tango Gameworks' spooky, neon-drenched action-adventure game, is now officially a good old game. Granted, it's not that old, but 'good' seems about right given that contributing writer Imogen Mellor scored it a 72 in her review. But what I mean is that it's joined GOG's Preservation Program.If you're wondering why a game from 2022 would need to be preserved already, well, it kind of doesn't. You may be...