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Bastion of sober videogame realism Microsoft Flight Simulator is about to get dinosaurs thanks to a Jurassic World crossover

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Get ready to explore Jurassic World: Archipelago – YouTube Watch On Somebody’s marketing team didn’t stop to ask whether they should, only whether they could, and as a result Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is getting an expansion that lets you do a velociraptor fly-by. The Jurassic World: Archipelago add-on will bolt onto your globe the … Read more

The Tekken board game reached its crowdfunding goal in 35 minutes and also, by the way, there is a Tekken board game for some reason

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There’s a board game for everything now. Last time I looked in at my local store they had board games based on Oregon Trail, the Iliad, and World War II espionage in the Mediterranean theater specifically. I shouldn’t be surprised there’s going to be a board game based on that one fighting game where you … Read more

Will someone please sit with me when I play this super creepy game about examining dozens of old photos for evidence of g-g-ghosts?

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I like ghost stuff. I like stories about ghosts, I like seeing old photographs that supposedly show evidence of ghosts, and I like videos that claim to show ghost activity. But I view all that stuff as goofy fun. There’s always a reasonable explanation for whatever shadowy face can be seen in an old photo … Read more

Anthem’s former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn’t deliver: ‘Maybe there wasn’t anything behind the very evocative statement’

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What Really Happened to Anthem? (Part 1 2011 – 2017) – YouTube Watch On Anthem isn’t getting shuttered for good until January 2026, but it’s already spent years as one of the industry’s preeminent tragedies. This week, former Anthem executive producer and BioWare veteran Mark Darrah published the first of a multi-video YouTube series about … Read more

Battlefield 6 producer insists the game’s ‘cool’ and ‘relatable’ PMC villain and its quest to destroy the US has no deeper meaning: ‘We needed two factions’

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We don’t know a whole lot about the setting for Battlefield 6, but the broad strokes were revealed late last week: “Major European countries” have pulled out of NATO, leaving the US and some unspecified number of remaining allies to stand alone against a massive mercenary outfit called Pax Armata. It’s a scenario that feels … Read more

Think you can guess the PC game just from its crates? Try to smash our latest quiz!

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More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Forget letter grades, numbers, stars, and percentages: No metric for evaluating videogames has ever matched what Chet Faliszek and Erik … Read more

Humble Bundle’s new Warner Bros. collection has 15 really good games, plus Suicide Squad, for just $12

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If you’ve got enough money in your pocket to buy a Double Whopper combo but you’re not feeling especially hungry right now, I’ve got a good alternative plan for getting rid of it: Humble Bundle’s “Play the Legends” collection of Warner Bros. games, which includes 16 really good games (well, 15, plus Suicide Squad) for … Read more