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Kerbal Space Program rockets to its highest concurrent player count on Steam in more than 10 years
news Space exploration is cool again.
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What's next for Slay the Spire 2: the ending, new character(s), new modes?
We sat down with Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano for the first Slay the Spire 2 post-launch interview. We dive into the magnitude of the games success, what the ending could look like, character win rates, review bombing, and how player feedback. Plus — new characters, new modes, and what’s next for Slay the Spire 2.
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Star Wars Zero Company: Hands-on preview
Star Wars Zero Company surprised us. When EA invited PC Gamer to be one of the first outlets in the world to play their new game, Ted Litchfield went in with high expectations - a Clone Wars tactics game made by former XCOM and Jedi Survivor devs is a slam drunk - but even these were surpassed. It blends the familiar combat of XCOM with sumptuous third-person action-adventure storytelling, and a healthy dose of Mass Effect style RPG management, and could be a game of the year contender.
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How Arc Raiders was saved from mediocrity
ARC Raiders famously switched focus from a fast, free-to-play PvE game to the tighter, more tactical PvPvE extraction shooter we know today; a move known as "the reset". At GDC, Production Director Caio Braga gave a talk entitled "When your AAA game isn't fun: The ARC Raiders story of starting over with intent". We interviewed him afterwards to delve more deeply into how this pivot happened, what player feedback is teaching Embark about their game, and what plans they have for the future.
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Marathon Ignores Extraction Shooter 'Rules' And Is Better For It
Morgan is here to talk about what Bungie is doing right with Marathon. How does it hold up against other extraction shooters?
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Superstrike: How Logitech is innovating the gaming mouse
The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike comes with a few features we've not seen before in a gaming mouse. To get all the details, our resident mouse nerd, Jacob Fox, has spoken with two people that worked closely on it: Logitech's senior mechatronics engineer Frédéric de Goumoëns and chief engineer Regis Croisonnier.
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A decade ago, Call of Duty sidelined its iconic progression system to dabble in gacha instead, and I was glad I'd forgotten
RNG Welcome to the Supply Drop era.
Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 7, 2026)
New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
The best PC games to play right now
What to play Colossal RPGs, ingenious puzzle games, surprise indie hits, and all the other great PC games we're playing today.
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In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG
critical hit The realheads know a Brandon-Schaffer collab is where it's at.
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Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing'
Deep dive Bay 12 Games' co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.
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It's not just Arrow Lake that's been refreshed: Intel's whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction
All ears Talk is cheap, listening is priceless.
Thank goodness Magic: The Gathering isn't doing a Harry Potter crossover set
Ditch the Quidditch Instead it's returning to Strixhaven, a less problematic wizard school and part of Magic's existing multiverse.
Final Fantasy 14's latest variant dungeon is so good, it deserves better—the MMO needs to figure out its rewards so all this great work isn't wasted
NO CARROT Just let me get gear, please.
MindsEye is a glitchy, incoherent mess I wouldn't recommend to anyone—and it might also be my favorite game of 2026
In defense of Look, it's complicated.
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This Nightdive-remastered 3DO shooter shows why it took Halo to break PC gaming's FPS hegemony
Kitchen nightmares Playing PO'ed will make you feel exactly like that.
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The best laptop games
Updated Great laptop games can run on low-spec PCs, fit cozily onto smaller screens, and are perfectly playable with a trackpad.
Open world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: 'It's become more unique'
Endurance run After "the reality of the industry hit," the studio pivoted to a new structure and fist-focused combat.
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The best strategy games on PC
Updated! From real-time classics to modern turn-based favorites, these are the best strategy games on PC.
The best RPGs on PC
Updated! Discover your next epic adventure with our list of the most essential RPGs you can play on PC right now.
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Xenonauts 2 review: An incredible tactics game, even if you're not nostalgic for classic X-COM
ET go home Some old-school alien butt kicking.
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Crimson Desert's commitment to cleaning up its clunky controls shines the brightest in how satisfying it feels to fly around Pywel now
Fly high No more do I fear the cloak.
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