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Last week, the other shoe dropped for legendary RPG studio BioWare: shortly after EA's acquisition by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, the gaming giant shut down BioWare and canceled Mass Effect…

With the closure of RPG standby BioWare, we've been consulting the PC Gamer rolodex and reaching out to developers for their thoughts and reflections on the legendary studio.

Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle.

Almost a year ago now, Team 4 debuted a new kind of Overwatch, and as part of the huge spotlight we learned that the live service FPS would undergo a new cadence with yearly themes comprising several seasons.

I have always been one of those pro-Dark Souls 2 revisionists, but man, they really chafe your hams on this one.

Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries.

On May 24, 2000, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney shared a public statement (the specific platform or venue eludes me) on the closure of Looking Glass Studios, a canonical PC gaming institution and originator of the immersive sim genre (maybe don't call it that,

The idea of playing Deus Ex entirely in third person has always seemed like sacrilege to me.

The development and release of Civilization 7 has been a rollercoaster for both fans of the series and developer Firaxis.

The more information that dribbles out from BioWare's cancelled Mass Effect game, the sadder I feel about the whole sorry situation.

As reported by The Verge, Xbox Chief Operating Officer Helen Chiang is leaving the company after three months in the role⁠—though Chiang had previously been a Microsoft employee for 21 years.

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Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) For my column this week I was going to write about climbing all over monsters in Dragon Dogma 2's chilly Dark Arisen expansion, but then EA decided to finally murder BioWare after years of slowly poisoning it.

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer's very own MMO column.

Fans of Deus Ex, Dishonored and Gloomwood like to roll the words 'immersive sim' around their mouths as often as possible, savouring the fond associations with first-person drawer-rifling and guilt-ridden murder.

It seems like there's a new slightly-humorous-for-its-incongruity collab between game devs every other week at this point, and the latest in this sacred lineage is a team-up between Super Meat Boy 3D and Mouse: P.I.

The Japan Actors Union, an org consisting of around 2,600 actors and voice actors, recently announced a series of measures to protect the rights of performers in the industry with regard to generative AI (reported in English via Automaton Media).

Cozy games on Google The past five years of search demand on Google for cozy games, relaxing games, and casual games.Google Trends Interestingly, the resurgence of "casual games" is even more pronounced at a worldwide view.Google Trends First let's check…

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history.

Well, here's a headscratcher.

The death of BioWare has provoked a whole lot of tributes, memorialisation, and plain old nostalgia as all sorts of people come together to remember the bangers the erstwhile king of RPGs put out in its prime.

The whistle has blown.

I'm beginning to wonder whether Star Wars Galaxies Restoration can still be considered accurately named, given the community-driven revival project has gone so far beyond keeping SOE's 2003 MMO up and running.

The closure of BioWare has not come as a huge surprise.

Electronic Arts shuttered BioWare earlier this week, and that sucked.

One of the big topics of conversation around Onimusha: Way of the Sword when it released last month—and even before that, when Capcom first put out a demo of the game—was whether it was too easy.

Arkane Lyon may soon be facing closure, according to a new report by French site Le Monde, which says a deadline to find a buyer for the studio will land on November 13, at which point Microsoft could close the studio outright.

I'm always on the lookout for a new daily game I can play on my phone because, quite honestly, I'll do just about anything to delay getting out of bed for just a few more minutes in the morning.

Excitement over the Total War: Shogun 2 remaster turned to a very different emotion when it launched and turned out to be quite bad—so bad that Sega pulled it from sale just a couple days later.

If you spent much time online this week, you likely noticed how it briefly felt like the end of days as government websites, game marketplaces, and furry image boards alike were pulled offline in a scramble to address newly-discovered security vulnerabili…

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I have never really thought much about gemstones or minerals, which is weird considering one of my all-time favourite games is Minecraft, in which I spend a bulk of my time strip-mining.

Archetype Entertainment has unveiled a new look for the protagonist of Exodus, its upcoming sci-fi RPG.

I've been having a grand old time playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 with an RX 9070 XT, but there'll be plenty of people wanting to run the game on older hardware.

I was genuinely surprised by the re-release of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D earlier this year.

Whether you dismiss it as 'fake frames' or embrace the tech as a real game changer, frame generation has fast become a headlining act of this GPU generation.

Writing (and reading) about PC hardware news at the moment can be downright depressing.

Can you have too much of a mediocre thing?

According to hardware outlet ChannelGate, the wholesale spot prices of several RTX 50-series graphics cards are on the rise once again in China, which is an ominous indicator for consumer pricing worldwide.

Our month-long RTS tournament is coming to an end.

The Genshin Impact 7.2 livestream codes have arrived, providing a bit of bonus currency to use when wishing on the new characters coming in this version.

I reported on a missing shipment of RTX 5090s earlier this week, with two pallets worth of the highly-prized graphics cards presumably stolen from a Brazilian airport.

I'm not usually one for all these fancy graphics; give me more frames, at all costs.

We’re not surprised that Asus has delivered the first Wi-Fi 8 router.

If you're an enlightened sort, who has sought out the sunny uplands of a Linux operating system for your gaming rig in these exciting days of almost seamless game compatibility, then you might want to have a think about migrating your OS onto a beta branch

Fast-paced. 3D Platformer.

There's nothing I like more in a Fallout game then stumbling across some weird little settlement filled with oddball characters.

Unreal Engine maker Epic Games is running a game jam in November with thousands of dollars in prizes up for grabs.

The closure of BioWare is a tremendous loss, not just for gamers but for Canada: The Edmonton-based studio was named one of the country's best places to work multiple times over the years, even after the Electronic Arts acquisition that ultimately spelled…