Tim Clark

Thanks KB!

And this is why I work in the best place in the world.

Saw it a packed movie theatre with my dad, and we were one of only a handful of people laughing.

My favorite game of 2025 won't get a sequel, says its developer: 'Each of my projects will be completely standalone' "I don't ever plan on making a sequel to Blue Prince," said developer Tonda Ros.

"I think that each project I make in whatever medium it will be, will largely be unconnected," says Blue Prince developer Tonda Ros.

Fair. Sounds like that was bottled lighting though, and as a tactic it’s given an odd amount of import. I think I’m just frustrated!

I also find the whole ‘call your senator’ thing as a response deeply depressing. Does that ever do anything? I can’t recall in 10 years here one of them saying “well I was going to do this heinous thing but the the answerphone filled up.”

I genuinely struggle to explain to people back home how useless the dems are.

Spoiler: they did not stay calm

Mamdani winning feels like the first green shoot of recovery in this long-ass year. All my life I’ve heard these dire warnings of “if so and so wins then all the rich will leave”. Don’t threaten us with a good time. (They never do either.)

it's obviously important that zohran won. but it's equally important that cuomo and the despicable, racist, contemptuous, arrogant, loathesome forces arrayed behind him were brutally defeated. they banked on new yorkers hating and fearing each other. and they lost. what a town.

Commendable of Apple to hire every single recongnisable character actor in Britain to appear in Down Cemetery Road.

I feel like my main metric for measuring the internet is how often I internally say “oh my god please shut the fuck up” while looking at it, and these days it really is please shut the fuck up almost all the way down.

He already said he’s not inviting whoever wins (because both teams would presumably say fuck that)

You were saying?

In her defence, it was very early days 😅

I got broken up with via in-game Scrabulous message. She offered to still finish the game afterwards.

Horror tropes that mark a movie out as made by hacks:

* Young couple mourning death of a child is haunted by the manifestation of their trauma
* Child draws ominous crayon scrawls at school
* Crow flies into window as portent of impending doom

(Last one did happen to me and was scary tbf.)

Real opening paragraph in an Official Nintendo Magazine feature

"I once punched my younger brother so hard in the chest that he vomited up that morning's breakfast - cornflakes mainly. It wasn't technically the Heimlich manoevre, as he wasn't choking and I wasn't trying to save him-"

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

More troubling, they have spilled into mine.

The solo dev behind RPG Sword Hero is promising a 'seamless open world' with amazing combat, intricate simulation, and systemic dismemberment—the demo on Steam makes me think they can pull it off Sword Hero: An almost parodically unspecific name for an incredible-looking game

The @pcgamer.com team is constantly introducing me to cool games I hadn't heard of. @dilfpatrol.bsky.social turned me on to Sword Hero recently and it looks sick.

Call of Duty was saved against the odds when Infinity Ward imploded Modern Warfare 3 co-director Glen Schofield tells the dramatic story of its making first-hand.

I talked to Glen Schofield about maybe the most fascinating and volatile moment of FPS history - when he took the reins of the world's most anticipated game amid the breakdown of Infinity Ward. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

Can you guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review? Take our quiz and see if you score a thumbs up! We're (overwhelmingly) positive you'll do great on this quiz.

We joke about Steam reviews but sometimes they get their point across in a single sentence whereas it takes me about 1,800 words. Anyway, I made a quiz where you try to guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review. Pretty much everyone is is acing it. www.pcgamer.com/games/can-yo...

alright calm down borderlands

A triangular range chart labeled "Indie Game Vibe Check", where the three axes are "Enpoisoned", "Pumpy's Big Clumpy", and "Misty Cube". Each intersection features a game - Lunacid is the most Enpoisoned, Untitled Goose Game is the most Pumpy's Big Clumpy, and Manifold Garden is the most Misty Cube. Undertale is directly in the center, surrounded by Tunic (Pumpy), Void Stranger (Misty), and Star of Providence (Poison)

I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves.
But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

There’s a great tradition of HEALTH enjoyers on PCG.

What's in your FPS rotation? The shooters you're always playing, but never at the same time.

In the second edition of my FPS column, FOV 90, we're talking FPS rotations: Do you cycle between a handful of familiar shooters that continue to be great? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/wh...

Weak sauce, to the surprise of nobody. But I suppose when everyone else is caving - judiciary, education, media - it makes it easier to join the club.