Latest articles by Tyler Wilde
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023
news This year's Game Awards GOTY (and almost everything else) is the popular French RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is coming to Steam and consoles in 2026
news This is the first new main series Ace Combat game in seven years.
Open world RPG shooter No Law is going straight on my wishlist after its Game Awards reveal—we spoke to the devs to find out more
news No Law comes from the developer of popular cyberpunk game The Ascent.
What to expect from The Game Awards 2025: What's rumored to be there, what's already confirmed, and what we think is taking home GOTY
TGA Everywhere we know about The Game Awards 2025 so far.
CTF shooter Last Flag now has a Steam demo, and it's worth trying whether or not you're an Imagine Dragons fan
news I should mention for context that the game's being directed by the band's lead singer and manager.
We used to be a society in which PC gamers had little speakers on their desks instead of RGB headsets—here are 2 speaker deals that I like
Cyber Monday If you're tired of always wearing headphones while you play games, here are some great Cyber Monday sales on desktop speakers.
An outage briefly affected Fortnite, Arc Raiders, Battle.net, PSN, and more, but now appears to be resolved
news If you were struggling to connect to an online game or service today, it wasn't just you.
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Opinion Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
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news Sometimes the internet is fun.
Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there's (almost) no good reason to believe is happening
news To be fair, I also can't think of a good reason to believe Valve won't announce Half-Life 3 today, except for the fact that it hasn't on any previous day.
OK, for real though, what's the chance of a Half-Life 3 announcement happening soon? Here's what we know
Poll Let us know how likely you think a new Half-Life is in our reader polls.
Former id Software artist argues performance and optimization are 'as much of an art problem' as a tech one: 'Killzone 2 looks incredible today. FEAR looks incredible today'
news Defect lead Emanuel Palalic thinks leaning into this mindset from early development will leave the game optimized as well as pretty.
The best games on Steam in 2025
Best to Get Got a fresh Steam account? Here are the best Steam games to get free or buy first.
I reported on the failure of Valve's first Steam Machines 8 years ago—this time I think they have it right
Round 2 The original Steam Machines didn't kick off a new era of PC gaming, but Valve's second attempt just might.
You haven't truly experienced PC gaming until you've done these 8 things
Relatable If you know, you know.
PC Gamer's highest review scores of 2025
89+ If you're looking for something a little more niche than Battlefield 6, there are some lesser-known bangers among this year's 89%+ scores.
The PC game releases we're most excited about in November
📅 If Black Ops isn't your thing, there's a whole slew of early access games on the way.
Steam's wider store pages are now live, and Valve says it tested them on 'a tiny old iPod' to make sure they'd still work on narrower screens
news "Things get pretty small" if you try to browse Steam on an iPod, but your PC monitor can probably handle the new 1,200 pixel page width.
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.
Rockstar says the employees it fired were leaking information, but it's not going to escape union busting accusations that easily
news More than 30 employees at the GTA developer were fired for sharing confidential information in a public forum. The union says they were just talking to labor organizers.
Firefighters don't actually use the 'fireman's carry' anymore, and other things I've learned from the Steam reviews for simulator games
TIL Simulated jobs tend to attract people who do the real thing, and they are full of interesting information.
'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes
news RPGs started coddling us too much, but it looks like they're trending in the other direction, says Brandon Adler.
The tech industry came for Steam and whiffed so hard that it's had to admit that it didn't even really like making games in the first place
Opinion Amazon's New World wouldn't have to die if the company actually wanted to be an MMO developer.
