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May 17
- Terraria devs reveal the game's average playtime on PC is over 100 hours as it passes 70 million copies sold
- Directive 8020's new Turning Points system transforms it from a simple sci-fi survival horror into a compelling, gory puzzle
- What would be your go-to gaming soundtrack to recommend to a non-gamer?
- Scott Miller, founder of Apogee, has over 1,000 hours in World of Warcraft and always plays a warrior in any RPG: 'I like to get right in their face and pound away'
- Demigod review (2009)
- Debate: What truly is the easiest character to cosplay?
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director weighs in on the real-time versus turn-based debate, saying that younger players 'increasingly favour more real-time experiences in games'
- Star Citizen's latest alpha update brings a 'full reset' to its universe, as Cloud Imperium Games promises to crack down on player exploits and duplication issues
- Civilization 7's imminent update will add one of history's most famous conquerors for free, in Firaxis' latest bid to coax you back to its controversial sequel
- This indie action RPG looks like Minecraft but plays like Dark Messiah, letting you boot enemies off ledges and body slam them into walls of spikes
- Forza Horizon 6 has hit a higher peak player count than Forza Horizon 5 and it's not even out yet
- It's time for Garfield's official Magic: The Gathering crossover now
- Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole'
May 16
- Lego racing game 2K Drive will be delisted next week, but online multiplayer won't shut down until next year
- Claims that Mixtape will be delisted over music licenses are 'a lie,' says publisher
- Ancient MMO Final Fantasy 11 still has new things on the horizon 24 years after launch
- Check your inbox: Steam Controller reservations are coming through
- GTA roleplayers built a secret Boiler Room rave beneath Los Santos, complete with DJs, club photographers, biker security, and a custom party drug
- MMOs are better if classes are imbalanced—you just need to do it on purpose
- This game about being a chaotic mage might be the best indie immersive sim you can play, as I learned after destroying a mime's house with magnetism
- I've been pixelating things again for our latest quiz—this time you have to guess which 10 videogame characters I've mangled
- MercurySteam announces 'difficult and painful' job cuts as its God of War-inspired hack 'n' slash arrives on Steam
- 6 million more people are using Firefox because of new EU rules, which is good news for Chrome haters like me
- Sink your teeth into V Rising for free this weekend, and you can grab the full game for less than half price
- Fallout's creator reveals you could have played as a snoring cow hater who believes in UFOs, had Black Isle stuck with its original licensed roleplaying system
- I’m waiting days between attempts to catch one fish in Final Fantasy 14 before it disappears for months, so don’t let anyone tell you raids are the ‘hardcore’ challenge
May 15
- A domain related to J-Pop idol phenomenon Love Live! went up for auction and the lead bid is a very sane $615 million
- The Fortnite-Overwatch crossover means we're talking about Tracer's butt again
- Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies
- Overwatch's lackluster 10th anniversary event will have its rewards improved next week, with more free stuff planned for later this year
- Subnautica 2's early access roadmap promises quality-of-life additions, co-op improvements, and—eventually—new biomes and creatures
- We can thank a Jim Henson Company puppeteer for some of Valve's best animation work
- GamesRadar has decamped to Kyoto to bring you some killer world premieres and trailers straight out of BitSummit Punch 2026
- I'm tired of everything getting turned into a roguelite, but I'll make an exception for pinball
- Another metaverse is set to die in June
- Diablo 4 players become unkillable gods as a minor bug fix in Lord of Hatred turns into a major problem for Blizzard
- Valve's massive update to the Steam marketplace must be working, because a gun I had listed on there for years just sold for a cool 40 bucks
- The world of videogames is 'currently not well understood' with major decisions based on 'a limited, partial view', say industry organisations UKIE and OKRE
- Notorious videogame movie auteur Uwe Boll is returning to the director's chair with a spiritual successor to House of the Dead
- Baldur's Gate 2 almost had a 'time travel plot', letting you visit an alternate future where BG1's main villain rules the Sword Coast
- Framework says its Wireless Touchpad Keyboard 'is by far our most waitlisted product'
- We're getting closer to a 100% ROG rig as Asus gets into the DRAM game for its 20th anniversary
- Forza Horizon 6's return to 'wristband progression' isn't the stand-in for a career mode I wanted it to be, but maybe that's for the best
- Rig R5 Spear Max HD gaming headset review
- After close to 140 hours with it, I think Slay the Spire 2 feels more like a sequel than a DLC, even if Megacrit was forced to make it
- I was worried EverQuest Legends making me too OP would ruin the magic of the classic MMO, but crushing hordes of frogloks is incredibly satisfying
- Despite Donald Trump and Jensen Huang flying out to the country, China has not yet approved the sale of Nvidia AI chips
- I really hope you weren't considering a GPU upgrade this year, as Nvidia may raise the price of the already pricey RTX 5090 by as much as $300
- 'I just need to disappear, go into a cabin': Eric Barone has found the answer to Haunted Chocolatier's development distractions
- Hot on the heels of Apple's iPhone-in-a-laptop, Google and Intel have teamed up to give us the Googlebook
- How to get the Repair Tool in Subnautica 2
- Sketch group Aunty Donna's new parody of Black Mirror's Bandersnatch episode will send you on a 40-minute unskippable walk around Melbourne if you make the wrong choices
- An engineer has worked out how to speed up a 3D printer by 1000% with a Nintendo Switch, though 'for most people, a Raspberry Pi is a better choice'
- Intel's 270K Plus is worthy of being picked by Thermal Grizzly as a delidded option, and it's even cheaper than a stock 285K
- 'Going just 0.5 mm thicker would probably have saved me months of engineering': Redditor crafts actual credit card sized computer
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's original director hadn't played a single MMO before launching its development studio: 'How the hell did they trust me with this much money?'
- How to get Celestine in Subnautica 2
- Hear the Steam Controller sing whole songs with haptics, including the Wii Store soundtrack, Still Alive, and even attempt a Rick Roll
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone would never use AI, instead wants to rely on human creativity—'I feel like that should take priority over a soulless machine'
- How to get Creature Enamel in Subnautica 2
- Final Fantasy 14 is promising big changes with Evercold, but I hope it's not a surface-level attempt
- How to get a fully functional Fabricator in Subnautica 2
- 'Average Valve W': After some Steam Controller packages were sent to the wrong country, Valve is reportedly giving 'any standard-edition title' to affected shoppers
- Alienware's new 'budget' laptop is a damning indictment of the current state of PC gaming hardware
- How to make Titanium Ingots in Subnautica 2
- Don't sleep on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes—it's tricky, tactical and the best FTL-like since, well, FTL
- Subnautica 2 has sold 2 million copies in 12 hours, with 9x the players as the first, and at this point I figure that Krafton CEO is already on his second bottle
- If Subnautica 2 won't let you select 4K resolution, there's a remarkably easy fix
- How to get Lucifer Rotsac in Subnautica 2
- How to clear an Angel Comb in Subnautica 2
- Where to find all Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Cars
- Where to find all Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds
- Owner of $400,000 in bitcoin was locked out of their account a decade ago and they just used Claude to get back in
- Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of
- How to get the Tadpole Pens code in Subnautica 2
- 15% of PC Gamer readers are still rawdogging their desktops, while 43% of you are wholesome full desk pad people
- Windrose hits 2 million sales milestone, proving yet again that the world really, really wanted a good pirate game
May 14
- Leaked Xbox Elite 3 controller images show at least one oddball addition, but it'll struggle to compete in a radically changed market
- A PvE-only mode is coming to Marathon as Bungie lays out plans for seasons 3, 4 and 5
- The original Doom soundtrack joins 'our national playlist' in the US Library of Congress
- Subnautica 2 sells 1 million copies in its first hour, and I have to imagine the CEO of Krafton is pouring himself a very stiff drink right about now (Update: Whoops, wait, it's 2 million copies now)
- 2011 was packed with iconic games: Can you guess which ones we reviewed from a quote and the score?
- It took a while, but Overwatch's iconic heroes have finally been bitten by the collab slop curse
- Total War: Warhammer 3 pushes the giant tiger people button next week
- Party Animals studio sparks fury with 'AI video contest,' apologizes, then makes things even worse by asking if it should hold the contest anyway
- Subnautica 2 console commands: turn on god mode, unlock all blueprints, craft without resources, and change your FOV
- Garry Newman acknowledges Gmod successor S&box had a bumpy launch, but is baffled by the number of people complaining about NFTs, which aren't in the game: 'I have no idea what this s**t is about'
- After all that drama, Subnautica 2 is good
- The story trailer for Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy, an upcoming survival horror game, reveals more of the twisted location and odd inhabitants
- Marvel Rivals has added a literal T. rex to the game alongside nerfing some Strategists and I don't know what's more surprising
- While I can barely find two sticks of 16 GB to rub together, Micron unveils a 256 GB memory module destined for AI servers
- Grand Theft Auto 6 leak says preorders begin next week
- The latest Nvidia drivers reportedly fix stutters when using frame generation and VSync, so you can generate to your heart's content
- Subnautica 2 pulls over 370,000 concurrent players in its first 30 minutes on Steam as it cannonballs into early access
- 'It nearly killed me': Why studio head James Ohlen left sci-fi RPG Exodus mid-development—and why EA crushing his Star Wars: The Old Republic reboot was the 'beginning of the end' at BioWare
- How to digest food in Subnautica 2
- AMD now owns 38.1% of the overall x86 CPU market according to new research but actually lost ground in desktop PCs
- Control was destined to become an RPG franchise all along, says creative director: 'That's how Control was born'
- University graduate speaker met with boos for saying AI 'is the next industrial revolution, then cheers for saying 'only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives'
- How Subnautica 2 multiplayer works
- In Subnautica 2, survival is a prison and humanity might be better off becoming something else
- Turn down these five Subnautica 2 settings from Epic to High for a massive frame rate boost
- How to get Strong Acid in Subnautica 2
- The best Subnautica 2 base locations
- How to increase inventory size in Subnautica 2
- How to get quartz in Subnautica 2
- How to build a base in Subnautica 2
- How to get Acidic Raion Pouch in Subnautica 2
- How to get the Sonic Resonator and mine in Subnautica 2
- How to get silver in Subnautica 2
- How to get the Wakemaker in Subnautica 2
- How to get lead in Subnautica 2
- How to get lithium in Subnautica 2
- How to get fibrous pulp in Subnautica 2
- How to remove Bloom Biofilm in Subnautica 2
- How to get sulfur in Subnautica 2
- How to build rooms in Subnautica 2
- How to increase O2 in Subnautica 2
- I've spent over 30 hours in Subnautica 2—here are my top 20 quick tips to get started under the sea
- How to build and upgrade a Tadpole in Subnautica 2
- How to get salt in Subnautica 2
- How to get gold in Subnautica 2
- Printer-based scheme attempted to smuggle $8,967,742 worth of cocaine into Australia
- Nvidia's solution to the AI energy problem is mini data centers next to local power substations and, of course, selling even more GPUs
- AMD bringing FSR 4.1 ML-powered upscaling to RX 7000 series in July, RX 6000 series in 2027
- IO Interactive has forgiven me for calling 007 a smug tool
- Amazon reportedly had a studio pivot away from a game 'everyone was excited by' to make something with more AI stuffed in it, then laid them all off anyway
- Summer Game Fest 2026 schedule and all the other summer showcases full of gaming announcements you won't want to miss
- The PC Gaming Show returns with both new and familiar faces to host our summer look at some of the coolest upcoming games
- 'Bambu Labs, go f*** yourself': 3D printing company currently under fire for reportedly blocking 3rd parties from its software, legal threats and drama aplenty
- Even if you have an RTX 5090, I don't recommend using ray tracing in Forza Horizon 6. Not because of the performance hit, simply because it's just not worth using
- Forza Horizon 6 review
- Forza Horizon 6 PC performance analysis: Heavy on your CPU, with uninspiring ray tracing, but at least it all runs very nicely
- AOC's new 34-inch gaming monitor gets the same sizzling 5th Gen QD-OLED panel tech as our current favorite ultrawide but it's a whole lot cheaper
- 'It's Temu Google Stadia': Vtuber showcases backseat gaming tool while playing Dark Souls 2 for the very first time
- Intel is back in F1 as it officially partners with last year's winners McLaren to provide the team with heaps of chips
- Overwatch's OG mode has made me realise how far this game has come and how good we have it right now
- Netflix misspells the name of Devil May Cry antagonist Vergil on a t-shirt, and it's honestly one of the more understandable typos they could've made
- The US has approved the sale of Nvidia H200 chips to 10 Chinese firms, but sources say they're still waiting for the go-ahead from China itself
- Forza Horizon 6 launch times and release date in your region
May 13
- No, Eric Barone is not adding infidelity to Stardew Valley, although he did briefly consider letting you ruin marriages, to Grandpa's deep disappointment
- Capcom says it's eyeing Devil May Cry, Ace Attorney, Dragon's Dogma for 'sequels, remakes, ports, etc.', and I'll gladly take the excuse to get my hopes up
- Doom is 10 years old today, and you can pick it up for just $2 on Steam
- Bungie is turning Marathon's loot dial to 11 ahead of its first wipe, opening up Cryo Archive 24/7
- Turn-based tactics game Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2 will release next week to coincide with a Warhammer Skulls event stacked with reveals
- Subnautica 2 devs say it's 'bigger and more polished' than any of the studio's previous early access launches
- Ubisoft's leak-a-thon continues with a dump of Assassin's Creed Hexe info that hints at the return of a familiar 'old man'
- AI is 'creatively soulless,' says director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic: 'I’m just really unimpressed with it'
- Embark says the 'pressure of a monthly cycle' is holding Arc Raiders back, so it's slowing down: Major updates will come every 6 months from now on
- The guy who literally wrote the textbook on AI says when it comes to the extinction scenario the human race is cooked: 'Making these systems more capable… doesn't seem like a sensible move'
- The 'numbers just aren't there,' Dead Space producer says, and that's why we'll probably never see Dead Space 4
- Cooler Master MasterFrame 360 Panorama review
- Konami belatedly realises hey, we might have something here, as the first properly new Silent Hill in 13 years sells over 2 million
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition review
- Trump confirms he brought Jensen Huang on his expedition to convince China to 'open up'
- The Talos Principle 3 promises an 'epic grand finale' to the tale of humanity's rebirth
- 'What if behind the pointer, there was an AI model': Google DeepMind wants to reinvent the humble mouse cursor
- You could win a $500 Amazon gift card by sending us your best Subnautica 2 gaming clips!
- The Bioshock series has some of gaming's best intros because lead dev Ken Levine knows 'if you have a mediocre beginning, you're done'
- Germany cuts Steam Deck desktop devs a $1.5 million cheque, they declare an end to 'insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft'
- There's a devious hacking scheme that involves a hijacked Microsoft Teams account, a fake IT helpdesk, and a covert infection tool
- This city-smashing monster sim is the first game I've ever played where my reward for beating a level is getting a nuke dropped on my head
- Here's how the Iran war is hitting key supplies for components, according to supply chain experts
- Taking a heroic stand against the holy trinity, 5 bears beat a WoW dungeon on its highest difficulty—Blizzard says oops, quickly reverts 200% buff that caused it
- Teaching software company strikes a deal with hackers to get customer data back, defying FBI guidance
- Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we're hitting 'diminishing returns' with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important
- Outbound is an excellent idea but fails to pin down what people love about co-op crafting
- One of BioShock's directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: 'I don't care about how many different plasmids I have'
- Bioshock lead's fears about Judas were banished by Baldur's Gate 3 gibbing a main character on his second playthrough: 'He was gone'
- Subnautica 2 release date and launch times
- Immersive sim sickos rejoice: the makers of Void Bastards are creating their most choice-driven game to date in Godzone 6
- 'We would need to shut off power for half the country': Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice
- True 3rd-person view has been hidden in a single Metal Gear Solid 2 variable for 15 years—now we're finally getting it
- Framework says DDR5 memory costs 'remain fairly stable' but 'on SSDs, the pricing story is unfortunately not as positive' as it raises prices again
- Dark Souls 2 path tracing mod is now available for all, and yes, it inevitably makes the game harder
- Lies of P studio is hiring an 'AI Creator' for future projects but says the role will not be 'directly involved' in the development of the sequel
- Sega has canceled its live service 'Super Game' due to 'intensifying market competition,' and I really, really hope it's a sign that the industry is finally correcting itself
May 12
- After his shock retirement last year, legendary former Tekken boss has landed at one of Japan's biggest fighting game publishers
- Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller
- Elon Musk, Sam Altman and the world's billionaires are terrified of the Google AI genius behind a 25-year-old computer game, because they think he might actually end up controlling god
- Gang of Dragon studio website disappears without notice as NetEase funding dries up
- Path of Exile's overwhelming complexity isn't the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: 'I think that PoE 1's being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem'
- One of the best rated games on Steam this week is an action platformer where you can parry a giant industrial digger with a chainsaw
- 20 years later, the world deserves another Sid Meier's Railroads!
- Valve made more than 27 million unique images for Counter-Strike listings as part of its new 'major update' to Steam's Community Market
- Protesters 'raid' EA to oppose Saudi Arabia acquisition
- This vampire farm sim has Real Housewives of Stardew energy
- Former NetEase exec's new investment group is funding Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic because 'everyone wins' if you 'give the best creator the opportunity to work on a dream project'
- Singleplayer simulated MMO Erenshor is getting raids this summer
- How to find the Serial Number for the Probe in Directive 8020
- Sony assures that AI is only meant to 'augment' artists' capabilities instead of replacing them but it feels like a slippery slope
- New testing shows DisplayPort 2.1 is very picky about the monitor cable you're using
- 'We're doing something a bit more interesting': All Will Rise dev says its progressive deck-builder shouldn't be dumped in the 'woke, liberal bucket'
- Popular PlayStation emulator clamps down on AI submissions: 'Leave behind something useful to humanity when you're gone, instead of peddling slop'
- Wordle is becoming a primetime TV quiz show, because the ultimate five-letter word is 'money'
- We're starting to get convincing counterfeit DDR5 modules, just in case the memory crisis isn't bad enough already
- I've spent 30 years with Microsoft but Linux and Pop! OS might have converted me
- Mixtape is at the center of another tedious culture war discourse, and I think I know why
- How to find the correct chemical agents for Anders in Directive 8020
- Lip-Bu Tan says 'Intel and Nvidia are collaborating to develop exciting new products' and I'm wondering what they could possibly be
- Where to find the key code to Carter's PC in Directive 8020
- The Sinking City 2 shifts the series to survival horror, and manages to be genuinely unsettling
- Today I learned that Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski produced a Tony Award-winning musical
- Intel's Big Battlemage Arc Pro B70 GPU benchmarked in games, ends up bang-on Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB performance
- 'We want to start today by apologising': Phasmophobia is fixing issues with its Player Character update after a slew of complaints
- eBay shoots down 'neither credible nor attractive' $56 billion GameStop offer from CEO who says 'I'm not going away. I'm a pain in the ass'
- Noctua's iconic beige and brown PC fan now comes in a slightly less iconic all-black version for PC builders who can't stand the original colour
- MSI MPG 322UR X24 review
- SATA drives are still going strong as Kingston announces it has shipped 100 million A400 SSDs
- Nine Sols, one of our best-reviewed soulslikes, is just $12 on Steam this week
- How to get the Sigil of Valor in Crimson Desert
- Hackers are using fake job interviews to load applicants' PCs with a password-stealing Trojan
- AMD reportedly planning a new budget graphics card with a surprising number of cores
- NBN price hikes are coming on July 1, but you can delay them by a year if you act fast
May 11
- How to unlock tools in Outbound: Tips for the Axe, Pickaxe, and other downloads
- Everyone knows Wolfenstein 3D made the FPS a phenomenon. What this mod presupposes is… what if it didn't?
- 16 years after attending a Fallout: New Vegas launch event, Aaron Paul gets cast in Fallout Season 3
- World of Warcraft 'Classic Plus', a version of the old MMO with modern updates, might actually be real as Blizzard hosts secret event with popular streamers
- Steam's most-wishlisted game is out this week following a year of corporate drama that involved one of the most embarrassing ChatGPT uses on record
- Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians
- Game industry lobby group that argued against preservation efforts from libraries is now pushing back on Stop Killing Games, saying it could prevent 'new games, features, and technology'
- Path of Exile 2's 1.0 release won't need to accommodate other game releases, director says—except GTA 6: 'That's a Goliath I don't want to take on quite frankly'
- Google AI bot put in charge of Swedish coffee shop, proceeds to order 3,000 rubber gloves, 6,000 napkins, 4 first-aid kits, and constantly screws up the bread order
- Will you like Outbound if you like crafting games?
- Every van upgrade you can unlock in Outbound
- How to lower the drawbridge and fix broken bridges in Outbound
- A killswitch has been pitched for the Linux kernel that could shut down vulnerable functions while users wait for patches
- Crimson Desert's latest patch gives the people what they want, which is to tame and ride a random bear with your own two hands—or a goat, if you're freaky
- Forza Horizon 6 leaks early, developer responds by banning the IPs of anyone playing it for just under 8,000 years
- 'Apple does this and y’all love it': Microsoft defends new Low Latency feature in Windows 11
- Turns out you yearn for the return of PC Gamer's two favourite genres just as much as we do
- Battlefield 6's first truly big map feels like playing a different, much better Battlefield
- You're not paranoid—KCD2's devs gave Henry photo mode voicelines just to stop you abusing it for stealth runs
- Mixtape review
- Directive 8020 review: One giant leap for sci-fi body horror
- After fining Google more money than exists on Earth, Russia demands so little from EA it feels like a weird joke
- New Steam update hints at four separate Steam Machine models and a reservation system
- How does co-op work in Outbound?
- Mortal Kombat 2 redeems itself by fixing the worst thing about the first movie
- Elder Scrolls 6 is a ways off, but who needs it? The world's most specific game jam is back with 40 playable entries based off Oblivion's wonderful/awful persuade-o-wheel
- Keychron calls this 'the next gen mouse switch' and I believe it: optical and magnetic all-in-one
- Drawquarium is one of the most relaxing sandbox games I've played in a hot minute, even if it did remind me I have zero artistic skill
- If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry
- Roblox wants AI to make its games photorealistic, but the devs making those games aren't sold on the idea: 'I don't think that your average player right now wants to do that'
- Steam week in review: Forza Horizon is the last truly mainstream multiplatform racing series
May 10
- Friendslop approaches total cultural victory as co-op hit Gamble With Your Friends sells 1 million copies in one week
- This Team Fortress 2 zombie mod looks so good, we almost thought it was official
- I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 for a Call of Duty zombie mod mash up and came away wondering how the heck I got this old
- What are the best and worst lyrics you've ever heard in a videogame song?
- Darkest Dungeon studio refuses to AI generate deceased narrator's voice despite his permission: 'I would never, ever erode his incredible and timeless performances'
- An unofficial PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess just released
- Bennett Foddy, designer of QWOP and Baby Steps, is obsessed with friendslop games and won't uninstall Baldur's Gate 3, even though he'll probably never finish it: 'It was too big and so I stopped'
- The Sims 3 review (2009)
- This artist 'brings hair to life' by painting video game scenes on the back of wigs, and yes, it really is as impressive as it sounds
- No, Richard Dawkins, AI is bloody well not conscious
- Two Point Museum's latest DLC features a buildable studio where artists can create 'millions' of unique artworks, and there's 'no generative AI involved' whatsoever
- Rust's latest update adds mortars but 'no visual guide to help you land shells,' so get ready for some chaos
- The next World of Darkness game to be revealed is a Werewolf metroidvania, and I respect the hustle
- Riven co-creator defends his use of AI art: 'Any artist can take a brush and, without thinking, an artist can create slop'
- Stellaris is 10 years old and still getting DLC, which is impressive
- Stellaris is getting space nomads and scenarios for its 10th birthday
May 9
- Pearl Abyss marketing director says Crimson Desert's rapid 'live service' patch cadence is business as usual for an MMO studio: 'That is not normal in the industry. That is normal here'
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes
- Final Fantasy 14 player harnesses the power of furniture slots to make their in-game house look like Pragmata
- Double Fine is the latest team at Microsoft to unionize
- Debate: Is turn-based or real-time-with-pause better for CRPGs?
- Discussion time: Are classic tab-target MMOs with loads of keybinds going out of style?
- How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: 'I've had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did'
- Can you identify 10 games I've turned into pixelated messes?
- Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost 'photo-real' rendering technique
- Europa Universalis 5's 'biggest update yet' expands the Balkans, overhauls the economy, and fixes more than 2,000 bugs
- Abiotic Factor just got another massive update that adds better pets, a ludicrously involved chemistry system, and most importantly, a mop for cleaning up all your failed experiments
- This very normal Half-Life mod lets you play as 'queen of spacetime' Max Caulfield, and it's convinced me that the next Life is Strange should be a full-on boomer shooter
- Conan Exiles whips out a massive Unreal Engine 5 upgrade that includes an 'enhanced endowment slider' to further improve player penises
May 8
- Immediately after putting The Elder Scrolls in Fallout 4, hero modder gets Fallout 1 working on the Pip-Boy too: 'This was so heavily requested, I couldn't pass it up'
- Nobody believes Blizzard meant to give Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players a 900% gold boost, but that hasn't stopped them from exploiting it until someone sticks a decimal point in there
- Morrowind mega-mod Skywind looks so good, even if it's still not finished
- Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear
- GTA 6's multi-billion-dollar budget is 'a high-stakes game for big boys only,' Take-Two boss says, but he's 'cool with it'
- Sony Interactive Entertainment chief says AI will enable 'gaming experiences like never before,' and I wonder: How long are these guys going to talk about it before we actually start seeing it?
- Update: Discord says it's 'seeing significant recovery' after a partial outage
- Arrowhead addresses the Helldivers 2 community as recent Steam reviews slump to Mostly Negative: 'We want to be clearer about what we're working on and what's coming next'
- Microsoft might be all-in on OpenAI now, but back in 2018 thought it was just 'motivated by a need to show how Al can crush humans'
- Brigador Killers smacked me in the mouth by making me level a city and kill the protagonists of the first game, and I can't wait for more
- True permadeath: You can never play this game again if you let its immortal snail assassin touch your mouse pointer
- Elo Shapes reveals a speedy gaming mouse from a fresh new brand that weighs even less than the competition
- 2K Games confirms layoffs at Project Ethos shooter studio and hints at new design direction: 'It's become clear that changes need to be made'
- If you're wondering where all the storage is going, it's landed in this 245 TB data center SSD from Micron
- CCP changed its name rather than pick a fight with the Chinese Communist Party, which was probably wise
- Final Fantasy 14's newest expansion name almost broke the series' 12-year tradition as Yoshi-P 'really wanted' his original idea
- Rockstar ransom hackers claim to have stolen the data of 280 million teachers, school staff, and students in Canvas attack
- Resident Evil Requiem just shadow-dropped a bonus roguelike mode, and it's absolutely fantastic
- Nvidia RTX 5050 review (Palit Dual edition)
- Valve forming an orderly queue for the Steam Controller makes it clear we need the same for the Steam Machine, Frame, and perhaps a lot more in-demand tech too
- Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it
- Videogame 'beta versions' are anything but, says veteran RPG dev—real games are 'sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, slightly less sh***y, and it skyrockets' at the end
- 'Pearl Abyss created 5,000,000 amateur ornithologists with one update': Crimson Desert's latest patches have effectively transformed it into a birdwatching simulator
- Nvidia's VP of deep learning says AI workers are already 'far beyond the costs of the employees'
- Sony records a $766 million impairment loss against Bungie for the 2025 financial year, a 1-2 punch of Destiny 2 and Marathon failing to meet its expectations
- Everything is Crab review
- All Genshin Impact 6.6 livestream codes
- 'Regardless of the type of offer, available capacity is essentially zero right now': SK hynix is reportedly being swamped with 'unprecedented' offers to secure memory chips
- Andy Serkis says 'there has always been that snobbery' when it comes to videogame acting, but the times are changing thanks to games like Expedition 33
- Microsoft exec. confirms Windows 11 is just as full of old code as you suspected: 'We were thinking flying cars and moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32'
- Even seven-year-old GPUs will be able to run Subnautica 2, according to its latest system requirements
- Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 later this year
- Here's when the Steam Controller will be available again in Australia, and I hope you like being awake at 3am
- '90s virtual reality, Battlefield 2142, and Total War: This month in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago
May 7
- The producer of the new Mortal Kombat film is annoyed that film reviewers are appraising it as a film
- Indie publisher New Blood has listened to over 1,000 voicemails left on its old-school tip line, including suggestions like 'you ever think about making a game where you fight bugs?'
- GameStop-eBay saga gets weirder: CEO says he was suspended from eBay for selling stuff on eBay 'to pay for eBay'
- Path of Exile 2's 'biggest expansion ever' reworks its entire post-campaign grind for new and returning players alike
- Path of Exile 2's massive Return of the Ancients expansion will be its last major update before it leaves early access later this year: 'I want to get this game finished, I really, really do'
- One guy broke 2 different Fallout 4 speedrun world records 9 times in 2 months
- A Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: 'They're going to make it look like suicide'
- The artist who created 40 in-game paintings for Minecraft did one of Jack Black as Steve for Minecraft Movie 2, and it's pretty fantastic
- The gacha in Neverness to Everness isn't as generous as it seems—here's how it works and why I've been more tempted to pull banners than ever
- It's time to set the record straight: Doomguy's armor does not have a tummy window, his shirt just got ripped
- One mad modder got the entirety of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind running on Fallout 4's in-game Pip-Boy
- This bloody vampire FPS with Splatoon movement tech is the best $5 I've spent on Steam this week
- Steam Controllers to come back in stock with reprise of Steam Deck reservation system
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is coming this summer, now with more marines and a 'massive variety of new xenomorphs' to slice 'em up
- Indie shooter devs pull a reverse-Concord: No one played their game, but they 'make it free to play and keep the servers online indefinitely' anyway
- Some pro gamers change mouse pads every few months, and that makes me wonder how often I should change mine
- Warhorse's new creative director tells us why the secret sauce for Kingdom Come Deliverance is making things difficult for players: 'The usual answer is OK let's get rid of the friction—We don't work like that'
- Despite Gothic Remake's glow-up, it's still the scrappy eurojank RPG it always was, and that's fine with me
- Forza Horizon 6 car list: All the vehicles confirmed so far
- People are shaming a Redditor for not emptying their 300 GB recycle bin and I realised mine is just as bad
- Everything you need to know about Stranger Than Heaven, the half-century-spanning Yakuza series prequel
- Microsoft reiterates that it's totally fine with Edge storing passwords in cleartext, despite security researchers' concerns
- Old School RuneScape needs 'to do a bunch of work to stop the game exploding soon', as a problem from 2018 rears its ugly head
- How to tame the Hyacinth Macaw in Crimson Desert
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review
- Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review
- Morrowind in Elden Ring mod makes mindblowing progress in video 'dedicated to that one guy that commented this project was not going to come out'
- Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore
- 47% of PC Gamer readers prove to be sensible upgraders, but 3% of you are sickos who will start looking for your next upgrade straight away
- War Thunder's Ninth Wave update gives classic maps and machines a shiny overhaul
- The Nintendo Switch 2 could see a $50-100 price hike says report as pesky investors complain about the launch price
- Google isn't scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it's letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide 'personalized insights' but I'm not sure that's better
- Atari just bought the rights to the big daddy of PC RPGs, and a reissue campaign is afoot
- With a peak player count of 14.2 million, 99 Nights in the Forest has an audience other multiplayer games would kill for: 'To find these behemoth playerbases you need to be on a platform like Roblox'
- My most-anticipated but frequently delayed Zelda-like is finally releasing later this month after 6 years in development
- Are you a real Sims series scholar? Put those decades of playing The Sims to the test with a quick round of trivia made for lifelong simmers
May 6
- Stranger Than Heaven sure looks like a Yakuza series prequel in its first 30-minute deep dive, oh and Snoop Dogg is here
- 'I'm bleeding to death:' In 2009, Wurm Online was still the wild frontier of online gaming
- I bought a $5 Steam Controller 7 years ago and forgot it existed. Now it's my new living room sidekick
- Take-Two chief is 'deeply disappointed' that we still don't have a new BioShock game
- Civilization 7 is profitable, says Take-Two CEO, even if they 'got it wrong' with the Ages system
- Civ 7 is getting 'by far the most-requested addition' later this month, but I'm more interested in whether it'll finally feel fully baked
- Far Cry 2 and Assassin's Creed Hexe creative director launches a new studio, a few months after surprise exit from Ubisoft
- More than 10 years after Ubisoft took it down, one of our favorite games of 2010 is back on Steam
- Mortal Kombat 2 movie reviews are in, and it's being called everything from 'enjoyably violent' to 'depressingly rizzless'
- Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse
- Palit clarifies Galax closure claims were simply a 'miscommunication', and it is 'already working on the next generations' of graphics cards
- Today I learned the real reason why Geralt calls all of his horses Roach
- CCP Games is no more: EVE Online studio changes its name as it goes independent and enters an AI research partnership with Google DeepMind
- Why I love Deadlock's map, which has brought me back to the world of MOBAs long after I swore I'd quit
- Here are 55 new photos of Gabe Newell's $500 million superyacht for your peasant eyes
- Using 'trillions of anonymised productivity signals', Microsoft thinks nearly half of people like AI in their work
- IO boss says surprise! Not only is 007 First Light imminent but that fantasy RPG it announced years ago is 'Very, very far' along too
- Ubisoft says 'Nice try' after Assassin's Creed multiplayer game, Invictus, leaks with a 'heavily altered' image
- In the dark fantasy world of The Blood of Dawnwalker, even the vampires are morally grey: 'They are complex, and they are not one dimensional'
- Neverness to Everness has charmed me with its wacky cast but there's no way it becomes my gacha mainstay
- Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations
- I found 200 Crude Gold Bars in a single spot in Crimson Desert, which amounts to 1,500 silver for only ten minutes of trouble
- Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets 'two thumbs up from me' for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is 'clueless'
- Ubuntu servers restored after DDoS attack sends services down for days
- I spent a full week testing different VPNs and I'm changing my no-VPNs-while-gaming advice
- Disgusting! Depraved monster adds effective quest markers to Morrowind, shows no remorse
- Coal in Old School RuneScape has, in theory, outperformed cryptocurrency Ethereum this year
- 'We now expect second half gaming revenue to decline more than 20%': AMD feeling the sting of the memory supply crisis
- This month's Humble Choice is offering one of the best turnbased sicko RPGs of the century for an all time low $15—plus you get 7 other games including Diablo 4
May 5
- 'The team has weathered a lot': Subnautica 2 design lead says the community kept the dev team going 'when it was at its hardest'
- Steam Deck verification criteria continues to confuse as Masters of Albion is marked Unsupported, despite devs considering it 'fully optimised for handheld'
- This is Chort, a Final Fantasy 14 dungeon boss of absolutely no real significance, but a hero to us all
- Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus
- MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy lays off even more people
- Microsoft ends Copilot AI on Xbox to help 'get the business back on track,' as new CEO simultaneously welcomes AI executives into the fold
- No, China hasn't made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it's made it much more expensive for companies to do so
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced combat will be 'more demanding' than the original
- Valve says Steam Controller sold out 'faster than we anticipated' but previously told us it has knobs it can turn to get more
- Surprise: The studio making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is full of former BioWare devs
- I just built a $70,000 digital PC and visualized its terrible airflow in 3D with this neat part-picking website
- 'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel
- From Cyberpunk 2077 to The Witcher 3: Why videogame music matters, told by some of the best composers in the indsutry
- Microsoft Edge saves passwords in cleartext 'by design' and researchers argue 'this turns into a credential harvest' on shared PCs
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance has its own $180 perfume, and it's crucial you remember 'These are not distant notes, but fragments of a world you already know'
- Bank of America thinks Take-Two should charge more for Grand Theft Auto 6
- Sit down, relax, and see how a magnetic keyboard switch is made with Wooting's CEO
- Resident Evil Requiem's director teases more Leon Kennedy: 'We could bring him back when he's 70'
- Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros
- Windrose should no longer threaten to significantly reduce your SSD's lifespan thanks to a fresh patch
- Nvidia confirms some user data may have been stolen in the Armenian GeForce Now breach, but not passwords
- How to tame the Iron Eagle in Crimson Desert
- 2 hours with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight was an uncomplicated burst of joy
- Remedy’s latest financials aren’t too bad considering Firebreak flopped, which the CEO puts down to its ‘structurally more efficient budgets’
- There's a website to competitively guess gaming mouse shapes, and it's a better use of my time than doomscrolling
- Baldur's Gate 3 cast 'changed the game' for videogame actors, says Dragon Age: Inquisition lead: 'We too deserve to stand up and be counted'
- Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI 'Freeman' because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented 'what we are essentially trying to achieve'
- I love the thought of geysers in Minecraft, but hate the fact I know just how my friends will use them
- Resident Evil Requiem's director admits they needed to raise the bar for their zombies to 'keep having that thrilling experience'
- 'In China we have now dropped to zero': CEO Jensen Huang bemoans Nvidia's market share and calls for US to export AI 'like crazy'
- What colour car would James Bond never drive? IO had to have multiple meetings just to figure it out for 007 First Light while huge plot decisions went down easy
- YouTuber makes the most of the unused space beneath their monitors with custom desktop aquarium with actual fish in it
- 'I did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old': New report details the effects of the Online Safety Act thus far
- GameStop CEO baffles CNBC anchors in bizarre interview
- Microsoft ended MS-DOS support 20 years ago, but the latest update for the best roguelike ever made still supports it anyway
May 4
- Randy Pitchford says Gearbox has a firm no-AI policy after posting an AI-generated image of an AI working at Gearbox
- Steam Controller is sold out in most regions, but Australia—you still have a chance (Update: Too late it's gone)
- eBay resellers are turning a tidy profit on Steam Controllers
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players seem close to finding the secret cow level and the final clue might be on a newly discovered cow island
- Gabe Newell makes surprise appearance in an ad for the yacht company he bought last year, riding around in his $500 million boat
- I never understood the appeal of a jumbo novelty d20 until I saw one inspired by one of my favorite new RPGs
- PC players aren't Grand Theft Auto 6's 'core' audience, Take-Two CEO says, and that's why we have to wait for it
- All Survive the Apocalypse codes for May 2026 for more Emeralds
- 6 months after Windows 10 was put to pasture, over a quarter of Steam users are still on the dying OS
- How a '90s Zelda PC port became a fangame factory, turning one legend into a thousand
- The Steam Controller sold out in 30 minutes, utterly breaking Steam in the process
- GameStop confirms $56 billion eBay acquisition bid, promises $2 billion in cuts at the company if the takeover is successful
- I got to play Dead as Disco early, and it's a vivid, unrestrained romp that lets you brawl through music videos like a kung-fu Baby Driver
- 2017's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a gloriously chaotic shooter that's more than the sum of its parts
- Playing Deus Ex: Invisible War like it always should have been
- It may have taken almost three years, but Diablo 4 finally feels finished to me
- Warcraft 3 Legacy is finally back on Battle.net
- Steam week in review: Another online shooter winds down weeks after launch, as robot cowboys take over
- Marvel once caused a problem for Capcom by insisting 'Juggernaut can't jump'
May 3
- Former Elder Scrolls Online boss was told in 2001 that 'There's already enough MMOs out there, no one is ever gonna play a new one'
- Former Elder Scrolls Online boss describes Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin closing as a turning point at Xbox: 'I know where this is going'
- A Utah age verification law targeting VPN users goes into effect this week
- Skyrim has been the most-played 'Unsupported' game on Steam Deck for 5 months
- Nearly 40 years after launch, NetHack just got a 5.0.0 release with over 3,000 patch notes
- A group of Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players hijacked the top leaderboard ranks not for glory, but to promote their expertise at making the strongest character builds
- In the 33 months since Baldur's Gate 3 launched, it's hardly ever fallen out of the top 5 most-played games on Steam Deck
- XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop
- The creator of Infinite Craft has a new game where you explore a secret-filled social hub as your mouse cursor
- Writing one of Final Fantasy 14's sauciest songs required its lyricist to consult the tomes—Wikipedia's incredibly thorough BDSM page
- There's a game coming out this year where you fight your Steam backlog, and it's more dangerous the more you've spent
- Plants vs. Zombies review (2009)
- There's an extreme lack of good quality, easy-to-find videogame figures, and after seeing people make their own I'm tempted to try it myself
- You're not crazy, that one sewer puzzle in Half-Life 2 really was harder 22 years ago
May 2
- Fallout designer Tim Cain thinks influencers have changed how people make and play games: 'more people seem to be abdicating their own judgement to that of people they see online'
- One-time Google competitor Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves, throws in the towel after almost 30 years: 'Jeeves' spirit endures'
- After 9 years and 2 new Mortal Kombats, it looks like NetherRealm is finally making Injustice 3
- New Crimson Desert update lets you 'rematch' defeated enemies and adds new legendary creatures
- After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on 'Where the goblins came from'
- South Korean Supreme Court orders Dark and Darker dev Ironmace to pay $3.84 million to Nexon
- Blood pressure too low? Try our quiz about the most freakishly out-of-touch things tech CEOs have ever said
- GameStop reportedly wants to buy eBay, a company with four times its market value
- As it celebrates its 5th birthday, New Day RP might be GTA roleplay's most accessible server—proving the scene doesn’t need to be intimidating to be rewarding
- Loving MMOs in 2026 is an exercise in frustration, grief, and moving on
- I've spent the past month testing Keychron's concrete keeb and it's absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point
- Fortnite Droid Tycoon beginner guide: How to upgrade, expand, and rebirth
- Marathon (1994) and Marathon (2026) are at opposite ends of FPS history, but playing them at the same time I'm finding they have a lot in common, despite their vast differences
May 1
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era sold 250,000 copies and 'broke even on development costs' in 1 day
- Blizzard decides 'Limitless Rage' barbarian items should actually have a limit after watching them rampage through Diablo 4 dealing quadrillions of damage
- The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories
- Far Far West is a surprise hit on Steam, but its players have one demand: A yeehaw button
- Far Cry 4 director pushes back against Far Cry TV showrunner calling game stories 'pointless' and executes a drive-by on Alien: Earth 'which turned into a kind of weird Peter Pan gets a dog story'
- Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power
- I didn't think a 2D platformer could be scary, but oh boy did this game about a forsaken nun in a dead world of demon cockroaches prove me wrong
- Hit cowboy co-op shooter's servers are struggling, developer says its service provider 'is currently drinking mojitos instead of helping'
- Hear me out: What if James Bond just shouldn't be in videogames?
- Indie dev apologizes for rough game launch, commits to turning it around: 'The critique is fair ... we got work to do'
- YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer
- Razer Kiyo V2 X review
- The new PC games of May 2026: Forza, Subnautica 2, and early access games galore
- This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source
- The cozy game launches of May are dominated by a bunch of hotly-anticipated sims
- Everyone's favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown
- Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film 'takes place alongside the events of Resident Evil 2' without actually engaging any of the characters
- ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD's FSR upscaler or Microsoft's NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming
- Valve on the Steam Machine delays: 'Obviously we're bummed that this is the state of things'
- Obsidian returns to The Outer Worlds after 3 years to add a whole new weapon type, fix bugs, and delist its OG version
- It's not confirmation of a Pragmata sequel, but Capcom has teased that its latest venture could have a future among its pantheon of iconic franchises after a tough development
- As Steam player counts continue to dominate conversations around multiple games, it turns out 45% of you don't actually care that much for the metric
- 'We undercalled the level of enthusiasm': Apple's Tim Cook says supply is constrained for the MacBook Neo, but 'we could not be happier with how things are going at the moment'
- A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard's made it for, that doesn't mean I feel good about it
- If the RAMpocalypse doesn't price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered
- Total War: Warhammer 40k's map reveals fill me with faith that Creative Assembly can handle the setting's absurd scale
- GameSir G7 Pro 8K Aimlabs Edition review
- Steam Deck restocks or a pile of Steam Frames and Machines? Either way, Valve's been importing a whole heap of 'game consoles'
- EA now lets you pre-order battle passes in Battlefield 6 for exclusive rewards, because of course it does
- Alienware AW2726DM review
- Making black versions of Noctua's beige fans is 'less like painting a wooden fence... and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part'
- Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'
- The Empire's most OTT lord finally gets his due, portrayed by a YouTuber hamming it up in Total War: Warhammer 3
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will have destructible terrain elements: 'That forest, if you don't like it, you don't have to keep it'
- Subnautica 2 is the latest behemoth to mess with other games' launch plans at the last minute: 'we need to dodge the Leviathan'