1+ day, 18+ hour ago (429+ words) Walmart's offering discounts on a whole legion of different figures. For the classic space marine look, this guy's a really affordable option made that bit more attractive with the discount. Castor is a bit of an obscure character'he's from the Space Marine Heroes range of miniatures'but ultimately he's just a badass Ultramarine with the iconic bolter weapon and the option of a bolt pistol and chainsword too. Key specs: 1:18 scale | 12.8 cm tall | alternate weapon and hand options Price check: Amazon $26.39 Sometimes being a grown-up means being responsible, restrained, and sensible with your money. And sometimes it means no one can tell you off for buying a badass six inch tall space marine to watch over your bookshelf. Joytoy's large scale Warhammer toys are really genuinely impressive. I'm not normally an action figure guy, but I've got one of their Sisters…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (799+ words) Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago (348+ words) What more could you ask? No, really. Like LLTQ, the meat of Galaxy Princess Zorana is choosing a build for your Infanta. The game is divided into turns, and each turn gives you a precious two lesson slots to dedicate to any of 45 different skills, ranging from things like your princess' knowledge of spaceship innards to her ability to conduct diplomatic intrigue to her ability to kill people with her bare hands. I ended up with an empress-to-be who was an absolute goddamn whizz at espionage but somewhat less good at, you know, actually talking to people. Or acting appropriately in delicate high-society events. Or who could even tell if the people she met liked her or not. My screen was a parade of failures. My first big event'a gala welcome where a series of important political figures'was one humiliation…...

14+ hour, 32+ min ago (333+ words) Cain used his long-running vlog series to discuss the lines between text, interpretation, and authorial intent. There's a character in Fallout dating back to the original game called Harold. He's a sorry sight, mutated beyond recognition with a sapling growing out of his exposed cranial innards, but how he got that way isn't clear. Fans have speculated for years as to whether he's a virus-infected mutant, a radiation-poisoned ghoul, both, or neither, and Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has weighed in on the debate with a larger point: any interpretation is right, so long as it's designated as such. He said as much in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel yesterday'the same channel where he routinely shares insights and commentary from his entire body of gamedev work, including everything from the original Fallout to Wildstar and The Outer Worlds. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (376+ words) I don't want much in life. A good gaming PC. A bit of peace and quiet. The occasional Batmobile. But nothing has given the 10-year-old boy that lives inside my head a greater jolt of dopamine than this 'impossible' lightsaber project, which you really have to see in motion to do it justice. YouTuber HeroTech has been working on the goal of building a realistic (to a point, obviously) lightsaber replica for a number of years now, and the latest version is downright spectacular. Not only does it glow with the brightness of two Tatooine-based suns, but it extends and retracts at exactly the same sort of speed you'd see in the movies, complete with the iconic sound effect. The blade mechanism itself works by extending a clear magician's cane (essentially a long spiralled spring that can extend outwards to…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago (685+ words) Yousa ready for Renegades? I guess it made sense to get the image of Jar Jar Binks hurling a Nova Bomb out of the way early. L'hrs stopped short of detailing what the nightmare scenario looked like, but the point was made that Renegades couldn't "feel like a one-off or a side quest", meaning it needs to fit cleanly into the overarching narrative that began with The Edge of Fate. To that end, Bungie went for a "scoundrel fantasy" in which the Guardian, under the direction of The Drifter (Destiny's resident moral grey zone), pulls together a ragtag team doing jobs for various criminal syndicates. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Vex wearing trenchcoats, but what am I going to do'quit after 10k+ hours? I don't think so. These jobs take the form of the new Lawless Frontier activity,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago (732+ words) Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website'bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims. Back in August 1994, not long after Doom had pulled PC gaming blinking into the spotlight, Magic: The Gathering released a small expansion named The Dark. Comprising just 119 cards, the set was unique for…...