I'm more hyped for Thief: The Dark Project Remastered than any new game coming out in the rest of the year(Image credit: Fox)

Over on Tiktok, Mark Darrah was asked, "If you could go back in time what would you remove from each of the Dragon Age games and what would you add?"Like everyone who ever installed the Skip the Fade mod for Dragon Age: Origins, Darrah thinks the Lost in Dreams quest needs a snip. "I would be tempted to cut or dramatically reduce the dream sequence part from the Mage Tower,"...

I've always been content to admire the Dark Souls games from afar, rather than get particularly into them myself, and part of that is probably a crumb of leftover resentment from trying to wrangle the multiplayer features in those early games. Love it or hate it, it's esoteric at the best of times and not terribly consistent. If you've a mind to mod those annoyances out of Dark Souls 2,...

Gears of War: E-Day is almost here, but that doesn't mean its developers have been spared in Microsoft's latest wave of layoffs as part of the Xbox "reset." While The Coalition, the studio currently working on the Gears of War series, was not mentioned by name in Matt Booty's "Continuing Our Reset" blog post, story director Juan Vaca announced on LinkedIn that he is now looking for work."I am part...

(Image credit: Villager97liam on Reddit)Just want to do an enthusiastic PC Gamer shout out to Villager97liam on the cyberpunkgame subreddit. They painstakingly recreated one of the dystopic foods of R. Talsorian Games' grim future: kibble and locust pizza.The nasty, processed treats I found strewn across Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 were always one of my favorite bits of worldbuilding, and Villager97liam went to painstaking lengths to approximate one of the...

It's hard to imagine Sonic the Hedgehog without his Jungian counterpart: the gun-toting, swear-uttering Shadow the Hedgehog. But Shadow is a relatively late addition to the series' extensive roster of anthropomorphic animals, debuting long after the Genesis days in Sonic Adventure 2—more than that, he was never supposed to stick around.According to a report from One More Game, Sonic honcho Takashi Iizuka said at the recent Tokyo Game Show that...

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...