- New Metro game teased by 4A, as it shares fresh details on development progress - 17 March 2025
Ukrainian Metro developer 4A Games is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the videogame series by announcing a year of events, deals, and new material, alongside a tease of where the franchise is going next. The team says it's continuing to work hard on Metro's future amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and adds that fans are in "for quite the ride" in what it calls the most "relevant chapter" of the games to date. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: After Stalker 2, you should grab Metro Exodus and all its DLC for just $4 Forget Fallout, and get the best apocalypse FPS series for under $10 Today's free game from the Epic Store is set in 2033
- After Stalker 2, you should grab Metro Exodus and all its DLC for just $4 - 7 January 2025
Stalker 2 may be the post-apocalyptic game on everyone's minds right now, but the mutant-infested world of the Metro series shouldn't be forgotten. This trilogy of excellent, intense adventures is a must-play for fans of FPS survival shooters, and you can grab the latest entry, Metro Exodus, for under $4 with all its DLC included. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Forget Fallout, and get the best apocalypse FPS series for under $10 Today's free game from the Epic Store is set in 2033 The Metro 2033 movie has been revived by Russian producers
- Snag the incredible Stalker and Metro games for cheap while you can - 19 August 2023
This Stalker Steam sale , alongside plenty of other Ukrainian-developed games, is the perfect way to get ready for the Stalker 2 release date and find some gems you may have missed. With a Stalker 2 presence at Gamescom and the potential for release any day now, you'll absolutely want to catch up. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get every Metro game for less than a train ticket Big Metro Exodus mod changes are coming, so pick it up cheap on Steam Humble Ukraine Bundle raises over $4 million with 6 days left
- Metro: Last Light, one of my favorite shooters ever, is free on Steam - 18 May 2023
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Metro: Last Light , the intensely atmospheric shooter about life above and below ground in badly-nuked Moscow, developer 4A Games is making it free for the week on Steam ... Read more.
- Metro: Last Light Complete Edition is currently free to keep from Steam - 18 May 2023
Free is free and spooky shooter Metro: Last Light is currently free to keep from Steam. It has been made available by developers 4A Games in order to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The catch, sort of, is that this is the Complete Edition, a version that does not normally even show up in Steam search results. The slightly-improved Metro: Last Light Redux will still cost you a few quid or bucks. Read more
- Metro dev 4A Games bought by Deep Silver parent, mentions multiplayer - 13 August 2020
Embracer Group's acquisition spree continues - it's now picked up Metro developer 4A Games for $80m. Embracer Group, the parent company of THQ Nordic, said it bought 4A Games, which is home to over 150 people across two studios in Malta and Ukraine, via subsidiary Saber Interactive (World War Z). Perhaps the acquisition shouldn't come as a surprise. 4A Games' Metro games are published by Deep Silver, which is owned by Embracer, so there's a long-running relationship. Embracer not only gets 4A Games, but the Metro IP and the developer's proprietary game engine, which will save costs for the company. Read more
- Metro author Dmitry Glukhovsky says he's working on the next game in the series - 14 August 2019
Author Dmitry Glukhovsky hinted in a 2016 AMA , shortly after the release of Metro 2035, that the Metro novels were over—although the Metro story itself might not be. "I think the main questions are answered in Metro 2035," he said in one reply. "And even if there won't be any other Metro BOOKS, this doesn't necessarily mean that Artyom's story can't continue in other media..." In a way, that's what happened with Metro: Last Light . It wasn't based on the Metro 2034 novel because 4A Games didn't think it would be a very good fit for a videogame, so Glukhovsky helped write the game and then used it as a partial basis for the Metro 2035 novel. Metro Exodus, the third part of the game series, followed the events of Last Light and also includes characters from 2035, meaning that, very generally, it hasn't been novelized yet. I don't think…
- What the Epic Store is missing right now - 31 January 2019
Steam became a home to PC gamers in part by absorbing all outside functionality. Why stuff your RAM with Fraps, GameSpy, TeamSpeak, GameFAQs, Metacritic, forums, or anything else? Leave your bags at home: it's all here. Stay a while. By contrast, Epic's new store is a bare boutique . It's uncomplicated by old additions, nostalgia, and 'community.' I bought Hades there just now. The payment form is simple. The transaction processed immediately. The checkbox for developer emails is opt-in instead of opt-out now, so that's fixed. The download was quick and I was out the door. The Epic Store is perfectly functional and easy-to-use, but given that Epic has made itself unavoidable, I want more from it (as I think most everyone does). Here's what I hope to see added to the Epic Store as soon as possible, what would be nice in the near future, and what I could…
- Metro: Last Light remains a brilliantly bleak horror FPS - 11 January 2019
Metro’s 2033’s gas mask was what made the game more than just another post-apocalyptic FPS. By forcing you to wear this airtight faceplate, Metro maintained its sense of claustrophobia even when exploring a wide-open space. The tension of hearing your breath become laboured as the mask’s filter struggles to clean the toxins from the air. The cracks that appear as you’re battered about by the mutant wildlife. It’s more important to making Metro work as an experience than any of its guns.  But the gas mask is crucial to Metro’s immersion in another way. It acknowledges that the player is separated from the game world by a screen, and by separating the main character Artyom from the world in the same way, it compounds that sense of immersion, drawing the player deeper into the game world. Metro: Last Light takes this idea one step further. As…
- How realistic are the post-apocalyptic landscapes of video games? - 12 November 2018
Barren wastelands. Decrepit and abandoned towns. Desolate landscapes ravaged by time and trauma. Recognisable landmarks slowly but surely reclaimed by nature after our demise. Games have consistently embraced the post-apocalyptic setting. It invites excitement, apprehension and a deep curiosity, and plays on the thought-provoking hypothetical, the 'what if?'. And when these post-apocalyptic environments and landscapes are incredibly detailed, they can result in great efficacy and power. Of course, all games use artistic license to a degree to ensure their pacing, setting and characters are primed for our experience and, as a result we give them a healthy amount of leeway when it comes to their landscapes. But just how much artistic license is an interesting area to investigate. Have the developers ruthlessly stuck to an accepted setting or set of circumstances? Or have they created thei…
- The PC Gamer Top 100 - 31 August 2018
For a constantly updated list of our favorite games on PC, check out our list of the best PC games right now .   Every year, the PC Gamer team embarks on an epic quest to choose the top 100 PC games. Where previously we voted for our favourite games, this year we talked: discussing each of our nominations and deciding which games should make the list. The result is a more honest, considered reflection of our conflicting tastes and opinions as PC gamers. This list represents what we think are the greatest PC games you can play today. We wanted to celebrate the breadth and variety of PC gaming, and so, for the most part, have restricted ourselves to one game per series. You'll also find a selection of personal picks: games we individually love that didn't quite make the cut. Enjoy! If you're looking for a list of the games that helped shape PC gaming as we know it, try…
- The Californian sent to save Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl from development hell - 31 July 2018
In a restaurant somewhere in sunny Los Angeles County, 13 years ago, two old friends were having lunch. Wine and conversation were flowing. They remembered how they'd met at LucasArts in the 90s. They weren't there to talk business but they did because video games were their bread and butter. One of the men, Jack Sorensen, was reeling-off job opportunities he knew of - he being executive vice president of worldwide studios at games publisher THQ. "THQ Australia?" he enquired. But the other man, Dean Sharpe, didn't seem interested. He had closed his own studio Big Ape Productions a couple of years earlier, dropped off the radar and taken a break, and now he was ready for something new. But Sharpe wanted a challenge. Sorensen dangled the bait. "It was somewhere during the second bottle of wine he mentioned he had this crazy thing in Ukraine," Dean Sharpe tells me over Skype now (he never…
- PC gaming's most noteworthy nukes - 21 May 2018
Nuclear weapons, other than being a terrible real world threat to our continued existence, are used in games a heck of a lot. Some games treat nuclear weapons as horrific, real and a part of their fiction, while others, mostly strategy games, use them more frivolously. In any case, ever since the end of the Cold War, they've been a fixture of PC gaming when it comes to themes and set pieces. Here, we explore the different ways PC games present nuclear strikes—from the horrifyingly real to, well, whatever Command & Conquer is.  Fallout 3 Everyone who played Fallout 3 remembers Megaton, the town built around a nuclear bomb. As a player, you face the choice of deactivating it or blowing it up. I blew it up, mostly because I found Megaton to be a bit of a nightmare to navigate. And I wanted a nice apartment in Tenpenny Tower. And I wanted to see what it looked like when it…
- THQ Nordic buy up Saints Row and Metro - 14 February 2018
THQ Nordic , publishers of the Darksiders games and recent jankfest Elex , have bought Koch Media, the companies have announced . Koch are the father-company of Deep Silver, who publish games like Saints Row , Metro , Dead Island , and Homefront: The Revolution . That means THQ Nordic now own alllll of those bad boys, among others . Due to all the combined plates this company now spins, they could now make a game where the hero of Mighty No. 9 fights jazzy paint-monster De Blob in a doomed bid for supremacy on Mars, aka, Red Faction 3. Although, they probably shouldn t do that. (more…)
- Steam summer sale: our giant recommendations list - 23 June 2017
The Steam summer sale is in full blaze . For a while it even blazed so hot that the servers went on fire and all the price stickers peeled off the games. Either that or the store just got swamped with cheapskates looking for the best bargains. Cheapskates like you! Well, don t worry. We ve rounded up some recommendations – both general tips and some newly added staff choices. Here are the things you should consider owning in your endless consumeristic lust for a happiness which always seems beyond reach. You’re welcome. …
- Steam summer sale: our giant recommendations list - 22 June 2017
The Steam summer sale is in full blaze . For a while it even blazed so hot that the servers went on fire and all the price stickers peeled off the games. Either that or the store just got swamped with cheapskates looking for the best bargains. Cheapskates like you! Well, don t worry. We ve rounded up some recommendations – both general tips and some specific staff choices. Here are the things you should consider owning in your endless consumeristic lust for a happiness which always seems beyond reach. You’re welcome. …
- Get 75 percent off the Metro Redux Bundle today - 15 June 2017
Were you excited by the announcement of Metro Exodus at E3 this week? It looks like a beautiful yet deadly not-so-open-world game , however it's not out until 2018. To tide you over until the release date, you could check out the two previous games in the series, Metro: 2033 and Metro: Last Light. You can grab them both in the Metro Redux Bundle at Bundle Stars today for 75 percent off . Based on the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky, the Metro games are set in a post-apocalyptic world where survivors in Russia fled to the Moscow underground system. Outside there are mutants, and inside are rival factions of survivors getting a bit violent. It's a bit of a no-win situation, really.  The price cut takes the bundle down to £6.24/$7.49, down from the usual price of £25 / $29.98, which it is on Steam right now. Individually the games run you £15 / $20 each, so you&ap…
- Book Em Up: New Metro Game Coming In 2017 - 9 November 2016
We’ll be revisiting the subways of post-apocalyptic Moscow next year, it seems, according to a website for the book series first-person shooters Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light are based on. With the English edition of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s trilogy-capping novel Metro 2035 coming in December, the site has added of a timeline of the series with a little note saying yup, another game will follow. …
- Going underground in Metro: Last Light Redux - 17 October 2016
I hate underground levels. Tunnels, sewers, catacombs. They always feel like filler to me. A way for a developer to cheaply extend their game. But one of the most impressive things about Metro: Last Light is how it consists almost entirely of dingy subterranean passages, and yet is one of the prettiest, most atmospheric games on PC. On a technical level, developer 4A s engine is capable of some incredible lighting and particle effects. But more importantly, its artists are great world-builders. You see some impressive sights, like the shattered skyline of what was once Moscow. But often it s the smaller details that are the most evocative. In one of the many settlements protagonist Artyom visits, I saw a man making shadow puppets for a group of children. He shows them a dog, then a bird. But they don t know what they are, because they were born into a world where such things no longer e…
- Metro 2033 studio has another, non-VR game in the works - 14 October 2016
When 4A Games announced Arktika.1 as a VR-only title last week, many feared that it signalled the studio's departure from a) the Metro series and b) traditional non-VR development. The good news is, at least where the latter is concerned, is that the studio is working on two titles. According to a new post on its website , 4A creative director Andriy Prokohrov addressed those who were disappointed by last week's announcement. "Arktika.1 is one of two projects in development right now," he wrote. "It s not holding the other project up with our new Malta studio we are a much bigger team, and it is better for us to have multiple projects, for our own independence and creativity. We re not ready to talk about the other project just yet, but we think you ll like it. So please be patient!" Who knows whether that unannounced project is actually a Metro game, but according to a possibly-no-long…
