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Why horses are so hard for video games to get right
If a horse is in a video game, that means someone busted their butt to get it there. Horses are WEIRD — they're massive animals with weird bendy joints and many, many gaits. It's no wonder why so…

PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, with a huge A1 poster and Top 100 games mini-mag
Plus, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Wardogs, Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, graphics cards tested, and much more, too

Spider-Man: Brand New Day writers confirm Jean Grey didn't kill anyone, which is a good move ahead of the X-Men film
The writers have clarified her actions

I hate dogs (in Elden Ring)
Elden Ring's dogs are some of the most annoying enemies for me to wrap my head around in a fight. Even hundreds of hours into the game, one tiny mistake in a fight against a dog threatens to send me…

The mythic origins of Elden Ring’s spooky scary skeletons
Skeletons are a classic video game grunt, but what makes them so special? FromSoftware has mastered the bones of skeleton-making, and their expertise is on full display in Elden Ring. Adventurers…

FromSoftware fans should get excited for Armored Core
Have you heard the rumor that FromSoftware, makers of Elden Ring, are hard at work resurrecting ... ARMORED CORE? Wait, back up. Have you heard of Armored Core? Because it's a great, weird, classic…

Elden Ring's weird little guys, explained
The new Elden Ring trailer is chock full of little weirdoes, hecked up guys, and nasty creatures. We use our expert knowledge of From Software's oeuvre to accurately predict who they are, and what…

Elden Ring wants you to stop hitting yourself
Elden Ring is, yes, incredibly hard. But it's also very funny? Polygon's Jenna Stoeber explains how with Elden Ring, FromSoftware has mastered jokes and environmental humor, a style of storytelling…

Saber CEO Denies Replacing Rideshare Writer With ChatGPT But Says ‘I Would Frankly In Retrospect Have Been Happy To Replace Her With AI’
Matt Karch said a missing Steam disclosure will be added eventually

Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement
The comments are "remarkably pathetic," the writer said in response.

Cities Skylines meets Balatro in the excellent new roguelike city builder Combolands
Combolands combines the combo-chaining thrills of Balatro with the strategic placement of Cities: Skylines

Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'
The open world was based on a real world national park.

Despite releasing one of the best reviewed games of the year, Big Walk devs don't know what's next for the friendslop banger or the studio: "We need a good rest"
"Getting this far took heaps of work and a long time"

Xbox Gamers Can Play Co-Op RPG Sunderfolk for a Limited Time
Sunderfolk, the co-op tactical RPG from former Blizzard developers at Secret Door, is free to play on Xbox for a limited time.

Big Walk review
Explore an island full of puzzles with a few of your friends.

10 Best Turn-Based RPGs of All Time
Baldur's Gate 3, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy X are among the best turn-based RPG video games of all time.

Star Wars Meets Final Fantasy Tactics in Zero Company
The legends behind the XCOM franchise are back and they're making the most ambitious Star Wars game to date.

Take-Two won't reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn't know what they mean: 'It's just never happened before'
The publisher says it isn't sure how to interpret GTA 6's 'astonishing' preorder sales.

Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'
Streams, VODs, comments, and pretty much everything else will go into the gen AI training machine, unless streamers choose to opt out.

10 Best Video Games of the Last 30 Years
Minecraft, The Last of Us, and Resident Evil 4 are all among the very best video games released over the last 30 years.

The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel could be the title of Bethesda's next RPG according to a solid fan theory that dates back to a Starfield teaser
Todd Howard, you sly dog

Where to find the pond jockey location in Grounded 2
Here's where to find the pond jockey in Grounded 2, so you can scan pond jockey meat to unlock the harpoon gun

Helldivers 2 borrows from Dead Space and Silent Hill for its horrific new aliens
Attack the void!

Halo: Campaign Evolved needed PvP to match Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 sales, analyst says
"Split-screen Halo and LAN parties are a foundational memory for exactly the 30-something demographic this remake was chasing"
