3 best new horror books to read in April
There isn’t a lot to be scared of during the month of April (outside the occasional intense, hair-raising April Fool’s prank), there are plenty of horror novels hitting shelves to be excited about.
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Danny McBride was an unlikely hero in this underrated fantasy comedy
It’s especially appropriate to celebrate the fantasy-comedy Your Highness turning 15, because that might be the precise age of the viewers best calibrated to enjoy this critically reviled box-office flop. That wasn’t the demographic director David Gordon Green was serving…
This wildly ambitious modpack transforms the third-person, N64 exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour into a ‘jank ’90s FPS’ for your PC
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I wish I could play the third person, Nintendo 64-exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, but on my PC and in first person”? What’s that? You don’t think anybody has thought that before in…
How many videogame movie adaptations can you name? And, more importantly, can you remember actually liking any of them?
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. I don’t know what compels…
To Stand Out, This TTRPG Podcast Network Chose The Risky Route Of Avoiding D&D
Glass Cannon Network has been a name in the tabletop roleplaying game actual play space since 2015, acting as one of the first major channels in a space that’s barely 10 years old. According to Glass Cannon Network co-founder Troy…
25 years ago, MTG’s Seventh Edition set quietly changed the game forever
By far, however, I have the greatest number of cards from Seventh Edition, including my childhood favorite: a foil Thorn Elemental. I remember relishing the cool art, even though I was hardly ever able to get this big stompy threat…
Tombwater is a 2D Soulslike Bloodborne fans won’t want to miss
All those Bloodborne fans still returning to Yharnam 11 years later are clearly hungry for more. With a sequel seeming more and more unlikely each year, and a remake project rejected by FromSoftware, we’ve had to start new playthroughs or…
Assassin & Cinderella Gets More Serious in Volume 3
A character model datamined from Grand Theft Auto 5’s source code ‘could actually be Agent’s protagonist’, according to online sleuth
Rockstar Games’ cancelled open world game Agent is one of the more mysterious elements of the Grand Theft Auto 6 developer’s history. Originally revealed back in 2007, Agent was a relatively high-profile project for years, but never showed much beyond…
The Razer Viper V4 Pro has reminded me that few things can beat great build quality in a mouse
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying out some seriously fast gaming monitors, including a 600 Hz TN panel. My Counter-Strike gaming has never been so buttery smooth. Over the past year, I’ve found myself…