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Remakes and remasters continue to become more common with each passing year and as Mortal Kombat has reached 11 mainline entries, some fans are looking back at the series’ history, especially as its 30th anniversary nears.  If it was up to Eyeballistic , a game development studio with multiple titles in the works, that 30th anniversary would include a remake of the original Mortal Kombat trilogy. In fact, the studio has created a “Mortal Kombat Trilogy Remake Petition” on change.org to get this theoretical ball rolling, as first reported by Nintendo Life .  Click here to watch embedded media “Mortal Kombat’s 30th anniversary is next year and we’d like to honor this amazing franchise by remaking the original Mortal Kombat Trilogy (MKT) on PC and consoles,” the petition reads. “MKT is a classic game combining all of the characters from MK1, MK2, MK3, and UMK3. It also includes nearly all of the stages from those games.”  Any studio could create a petition asking to re...

2021 was a bit grim, eh? But while the world outside was grey and dull, videogames were anything but.  From psychedelic mindscapes and watercolour picture books to the knackered anime VHS that got lost behind the sofa, games were serving up some serious looks this year. Here are some of the games that had us staring starry-eyed at our screens shouting "Woah, games can really just look like this!" Image 1 of 5 Unbeatable: White Label (Image credit: D-Cell Games) Image 2 of 5 Sable (Image credit: Raw Fury) Image 3 of 5 Solar Ash (Image credit: Heart Machine) Image 4 of 5 Exo One (Image credit: Exbleative) Image 5 of 5 Townscaper (Image credit: Oskar Stålberg) Nat Clayton, Features Producer  Unbeatable: White Label, Sable, Solar Ash, Exo One, Townscaper   I'll be honest, I've lost track of how often I tweeted about a new game being the coolest thing I'd ever seen over the past year.   It was hard to go...

Riot Games’ Joe Ziegler is saying goodbye to his role as Valorant’s game director to work on something new at the studio. This news comes by way of a new post made by Ziegler on the official Riot website , in which he discusses his last eight years there. He reveals that Valorant, which was officially released last year , is something he’s been working on for eight years as the game director and that now, it’s time for him to move on.  “It is with a heart full of gratitude and deep excitement that I come to you today with news,” Ziegler writes. “After eight years working on Valorant, building it from the ground up with a team of dedicated and passionate developers who’ve worked tirelessly to serve you all with the respect and admiration that you deserve, I am giving up the mantle of game director of the Valorant tac-shooter to my good friend, Andy Ho [senior director of game direction at Riot] .”  Ziegler said Ho is someone who has put many years of work into Valorant as ...

2020 was a noteworthy year for big streamer bans on Twitch, but 2021 has been something different. In many ways, the past 12 months have been much darker and more difficult: Instead of laughing at self-incriminating Call of Duty cheaters or wondering why Dr. Disrespect was banned, we saw marginalized streamers struggle with abusive audiences that Twitch was unable to control, while copyright conflicts and mismanagement continued to be a thorn in everyone's side. A massive security breach in October laid the entire platform bare, and for awhile dragged the platform into the mainstream spotlight: One digital security expert said the situation was "as bad as it could possibly be." Yet the crisis blew over quickly, publicly at least, and by mid-December the biggest argument was whether or not streaming qualified as work. Life, as they say, goes on. Here, then, is our rundown of the biggest Twitch controversies of 2021: Twitch's new Pogchamp emote program ends badly ...

It's been a year since I last looked into the mightiest storage hogs on the market, but I'm back and these games are bigger than ever. Inevitably there are some new additions to this list for 2021, those games that just can't help but suck an entire SSD dry, and they must be corralled up and logged, in the name of science.  I've been searching around to find the most byte-breakingly big games on the planet today. My journey has taken me across land and launcher to find the most expansive, detailed, or simply downright massive game install directories you may find on your gaming PC—some so chunky that they often won't fit on 128GB SSDs. Hell, some are too dense for even 256GB drives. I'll admit I cheated a little the first time around by tweeting out 'Which game takes up the most storage space on your PC right now?' on the PC Gamer Twitter account. Thank you to everyone that got back to me—except you, person that said Chip's Challenge. This year I...