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Remember when Star Wars and Command & Conquer ruled PC gaming? June in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago
5+ hour, 11+ min ago (603+ words) Here's what was happening in PC gaming in June 1996, 2006 and 2016. Here's a window into what was happening in PC gaming'and in the pages of PC Gamer magazine'one, two, and three decades ago. Any of these issues look familiar? How do…...
Star Citizen's single-player component is in the 'closing stages' of development according to Chris Roberts, as rumours of another Squadron 42 delay circulate
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (438+ words) Cloud Imperium Games is getting "imminently closer to launch." Last week, Star Citizen surpassed $1 billion in player funding, an eye-popping milestone that inevitably raised all the same questions about Cloud Imperium Games' wildly ambitious space MMO. Is it a scam?...
No Man's Sky now has its own Death Star
1+ week, 1+ day ago (314+ words) Look at the size of that thing! Who says you need a mouth-breathing psychopath in black armor and a gross, pale old ghoul in a hood to have a Death Star? No Man's Sky continues its seemingly endless parade of…...
As it rapidly approaches $1 billion in player funding, Star Citizen goes free to play until May 27
1+ week, 5+ day ago (245+ 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…...
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launch times and release date
2+ week, 2+ day ago (265+ words) Management's calling in the big guns. Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core is the meaner, shootier cousin to the standard DRG experience. As they are wont to do, the space dwarves have dug too greedily and too deep: mining teams are…...
Hasbro cancelled a D&D game from the Jedi: Fallen Order director
2+ week, 2+ day ago (302+ words) Giant Skull and Stig Asmussen aren't making a Dungeons and Dragons game after all. Hasbro has cancelled a Dungeons & Dragons videogame that was in early development at Giant Skull, the studio run by Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order director Stig…...
Star Wars: The Old Republic's original director hadn't played a single MMO before launching its development studio: 'How the hell did they trust me with this much money?"
2+ week, 6+ day ago (599+ words) "The next day, I created a Wo W character." The original director of Bio Ware's long-running MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic'which is now being run by Broadsword'had not played a single game in the genre when he started work…...
'It nearly killed me': Why studio head James Ohlen left sci-fi RPG Exodus mid-development'and why EA crushing his Star Wars: The Old Republic reboot was the 'beginning of the end' at Bio Ware
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (1838+ words) "I just needed to step away." "My son always says I look like a supervillain," James Ohlen says, laughing as he puffs his daily cigar on his porch in Austin, Texas, smoke twirling around his face. "It's one of the…...
AI is 'creatively soulless,' says director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic: 'I'm just really unimpressed with it"
3+ week, 1+ day ago (241+ words) It doesn't sounds like AI is going to play much of a role in the development of Fate of the Old Republic. Casey Hudson, the director of the original Knights of the Old Republic, is working on a new game…...
Former Net Ease exec's new investment group is funding Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic because 'everyone wins' if you 'give the best creator the opportunity to work on a dream project"
3+ week, 2+ day ago (273+ words) After raising $100 million, Greater Than Group is also funding a shooter from former Black Ops design director David Vonderhaar. One of the bigger showings at The Game Awards 2025 was the surprise reveal of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic,…...