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...

If there's anything the leaders of the AI era love more than watching the billion-dollar valuations of their companies tick up, it's warning us that the software making them rich might just destroy the world. AI is going to kill us all. Now, can we have more money for data centers, please?Their next favorite activity? Coming up with trendy phrases that either explain how toooootally smart the next upcoming AI...

One of the developers running the World of Warcraft: Forever beta has no patience for the people who think they can get away with naming their characters something inappropriate.I was surprised at how many awful player names I've seen while playing the beta over the last week. WoW usually has a pretty strict filter that covers a lot of racist or disgusting names and all their permutations. But in the...

In the wake of Microsoft gutting Halo Studios to a skeleton crew and passing off the series to Activision, new reports from insiders tell a believable story about what was happening in Halo Studios as the plug got pulled. The accounts come from The Verge's Tom Warren (longtime Microsoft beat writer) and YouTuber Rebs Gaming (whose sources within the Halo machine are often accurate).According to sourcesThe drastic cuts were a...

Oh good, it looks like Marathon players might have to fight a Gundam: In its developer insight video explaining Marathon's upcoming pivot away from full-on extraction focus, Bungie offered a brief glance at an internal Miro board showing concepts for potential enemy additions. One of those concepts was labeled "UESC Mecha (BOSS)," a behemoth that looks like it's sporting its own Deep Striker-tier weapons arsenal. Best of luck, runners.exCUSE ME?...