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OpenAI reportedly kicked around an 'insane' plan to pit world leaders against each other like a Call of Duty villain
news The company disputes the claim that such an idea was taken seriously, but ex-employees say it was real.
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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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Is the RAM crisis the end of the Steam Machine?
Valve has said that it's unable to announce pricing and release dates for the upcoming Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller. In a post on Steam, the company said it had planned to do so by now, but that memory and storage shortages are to blame for the delay. In this video, Dave and Jacob discuss the statement, the wider memory shortage, and what it might mean for Valve's bid for Linux in your living room. Is it all doom and gloom or is there still hope for an affordable Machine yet?
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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.
I tried to become a pro bowler but I skipped one important step: learning how to bowl
Alley Oops My attempt to rise through the ranks of PBA Pro Bowling 2026 hit a small and completely unexpected snag.
Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world
Yeehaw Real-life races have taken place in Malaysia, Thailand, Peru, and the US.
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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Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes
TWIB Everything going on in Kairos this week.
Where is Maurice’s Black Market location in Borderlands 4 this week?
Black Market Maurice's Black Market moves each week.
Upcoming 2026 games: All the new PC games you won't want to miss, from big hits to hidden gems
Future Proof Next up: Pragmata and Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred
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Blight: Survival—Everything we know about the medieval co-op horror game
Medieval times Fight your way through plagued lands with a squad of comrades.
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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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.
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.
This AI startup envisions '100 million new people' making videogames
Interview Tesana says we can create our "dream game" with prompts, but would 100 million people doing that actually be "exciting"?
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Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty
MW '19 Why a lot of people are playing a seven-year-old CoD again.
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Everything we know about Fable, the reboot on the twisted heroes RPG series
Fable the 4th Fable is heading back to Albion with with a revamped morality system in tow.
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deals Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
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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There's just no good reason why WoW's story mode raids aren't available right away—and I'm saying that as someone who cleared normal just fine last month
STORY SKIP Being forced into a get-along t-shirt with randos didn't improve my experience of the story, like, at all.
