The return of the '90s: That game you love is coming back

If you want to know the biggest trend of Gamescom, you just need to look at the biggest trend in PC gaming. And the biggest trend in PC gaming right now is that the game you loved is coming back. Homeworld, System Shock, Command & Conquer, and more.

In Tinykin, you play a teensy interstellar traveler who commands a legion of microscopic minions to navigate an oversized environment, and yet it's not the PC-compatible Pikmin that I was hoping for. Take a deep breath with me. If we do our mourning now, we can appreciate Tinykin for what it is: a delightful, laidback platformer romp through a world lovingly rendered from a bug's-eye view.

Thanks to HenrykForkbeard, who posed this question on the PC Gamer forum, asking: "If you were a video game, what genre/type of game would you be and why?" It's definitely a much more interesting query than "what kind of tree would you be", a question that only rarely lets you know which people are messy dating sims. Here are our answers, plus some from our forum.

During the peak of the GPU mining boom, it was difficult to get a new high-end card at a price that didn't involve some non-essential organ harvesting. Miners on the other hand, had no problem shelling out big bucks for cards in bulk when ethereum pricing was at its all-time highs. If you wanted a card or two, you'd go to a retailer. If you wanted a thousand, actual manufacturers would certainly have been happy to take your call. MSI appears to be one such company.