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"To be honest, my first concern was, can a Japanese director effectively make a Western-style fantasy game?" remembers Morris, who works with London and Tokyo-based localisation company Frognation. "I was quite concerned about that. I mean, the passion was there. But is he really going to be able to follow through? He's unknown at this time. He's not a legendary director." Hidetaka Miyazaki, the c

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In recognition of PC Gamer's 30th anniversary, we asked ourselves a question: What is the purpose of the Top 100? Is it a list of games the PC Gamer team loves? A way to recognise the most important games on the platform? A celebration of the most exciting and vibrant communities? Or is it simply a helpful guide to what's still worth playing today? The answer, we decided, was all of the above. And

When Chappy78 learned his cancer was back, the EVE Online community rallied to make his birthday one to remember. On Tuesday evening, over 2,000 EVE Online players gathered to celebrate Chappy78 Chapman's 42nd birthday by gathering into two massive armadas and blasting each other to smithereens. Representatives from every major player alliance in EVE showed up (along with a few developers from CCP

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Minecraft player WordWorksExperiment has posted on the Minecraft forums with the story of an experiment that allegedly turned a group of 30 volunteers into a collection of warring gangs engaged in a battle for resources that obliterated the world in less than two months. Since then, details have come out that seem to suggest the story was a hoax. We've included them at the end of this article. Wor

Last year, the Museum of London launched its Great Fire 1666 campaign—an educational project that uses Minecraft to reimagine the Great Fire of London, in-line with the disaster's 350th anniversary. Split into three distinct time periods during the event, different Minecraft maps portray events pre-fire, during the fire, and the aftermath and rebuilding of London in the wake of the fire. Part one

There are a ridiculous number of free PC games out there, so if you've been looking to save some cash without missing out on some great gaming, we've got options for you. You can have hours of fun completely free of charge—especially with the seasonal events and updates that roll out in every free-to-play live service game—but sifting through them to find what's worth playing is no small feat. If

The best Skyrim mods can be tough to find when there are over 69,000 of them on Nexus Mods and more than 27,000 on the Steam Workshop. There are so many that at this point if you can imagine it there's probably a mod for it—as well as plenty of things you would rather not imagine. From interface tweaks to entirely new campaigns, fully voiced companions, and of course ridiculous memes, it's all out

Unearthing the best Minecraft mods buried deep down around internet bedrock is hard work. Though plain old vanilla Minecraft has lots of options, even your favorite food will get old if it's all you ever eat, and regardless of how many variants you make on your builds they can get stale if you're always drawing from the same old well of creativity every time. But once you dive into the deep world

You can now check out a Minecraft demo. Procrastinating excavators: you no longer have an excuse for skipping our favorite open-world game. Better yet, it has branded cows that Notch made for us. Keep in mind that these animals are specially-programmed to act as voodoo cows: when you punch them, each PC Gamer editor feels a mild thud in their chest. Be gentle. Minecraft is a customisable beast. Fi

Thousands of new PC games release every year, and a lot of them are great. A lot of them are also bad. Some of them are really bad. And some of them are really good, but hardly anyone knows about them. It's hard to keep up! Lists like our annual Top 100 focus on the whole history of PC gaming, which inevitably means that a lot of great recent releases don't make the cut. That's why we made this li

Hiromichi Tanaka: Because it's an MMO, time is always not enough. We always need more time, especially because we expect players to enjoy the game for five years to ten years. Release timing is only one of the points that we go past – it's not a final goal we achieve. So we will continue working on it with the players, and listening to them. This will continue, and the development team is really w

People make maps in Team Fortress 2 specifically for grinding achievements. Bleak, joyless rooms of endlessly spawning bots and resupply crates, where people don't play the game, they game it. But in one of these, achievement_all_v4 , the author's added a surprise. A violent, horrific, hilarious surprise of biblical proportions. Here's a clip.