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FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign
News Artorias of the Abyss comes to the Lands Between.
My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse
News Never let your legal department write driver code!
Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more
News Generation Exile has been swallowed up by the storm of end-of-year releases on Steam.
Well, PC gamers, time to make peace with the fact that we probably won't be playing GTA 6 until, like, 2028 unless we cave in and buy the console version
News Another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay likely pushes its yet-unannounced PC version even further into the future.
I just learned that before the internet, 'online' actually meant 'offline' and it's turned my world upside down
News? Back in the '80s, "up" meant "online" BUT THERE WAS ALSO "ON-LINE!!!"
Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again
News Talk about a powerful faux pas.
Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep
News Sweet dreams, Steam Deck.
My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that
News TFW you have F'd around, and then found out.
After being inspired by Toby Fox to make his first RPG in decades, cult developer Yoshiro Kimura couldn't help but make it weird: 'Some people are going to look at it and go that's kind of odd, but that's just the way my games turn out'
Kid stuff The Undertale-inspired Stray Children, like Kimura's '90s RPG Moon, is part oddball story, part genre commentary.
Here's everything you can get in Arc Raiders from Twitch Drops and Discord Quests
Like it's hot Arc Raiders has a few free cosmetics you can "earn" by linking up your accounts.
Arc Raiders' use of AI highlights the tension and confusion over where machine learning ends and generative AI begins
News Embark Studios' contradictory statements about generative AI highlight what's sure to be a long-term industry debate.
There's a sneaky way to cheat Arc Raiders' tutorial to keep your starting pistol and all the loot you find
News Drop your starting gear before the enemies get the drop on you.
The best way to innovate in gaming 'is to have good margins,' says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, so I guess he'll be reinvesting his $96.5 million payday back into Xbox any second now
News Maybe you can make more sense of Satya Nadella's comments on gaming than I can.
The programmer of legendary emulator ZSNES just resurfaced after 24 years to give his first-ever interview and spill the secrets of its magical netplay, snowy UI and unbelievable speed on 1997 PCs
News A major contributor from the early days of emulation finally gets his flowers.
In this era of remasters, I am politely asking for way more Nintendo DS gems to be ported to Steam
Diverting Steam There are loads of great DS games that would be right at home on the Steam Deck.
Halo: Campaign Evolved, the second remake of Halo 1, is coming out next year
News The campaign remake follows 2011's Combat Evolved Anniversary.
Last Halloween's 'spooky' Discord notifications confused so many people that it added a pop-up explaining them this year
News Discord still turned the "festive" notifications on for everyone by default, of course.
It feels sacrilegious to say it, but Ninja Gaiden 4 is at its best when it goes full Devil May Cry
Ninja theories Hideki Kamiya may not be the action game boss at PlatinumGames anymore, but his influence remains.
Ninja Gaiden 4 review: Not quite top-tier Platinum
🥷 Ninja Gaiden 4 struggles to balance PlatinumGames excess with the purity of classic Ninja Gaiden.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
After learning his cult '90s RPG influenced Undertale, this Japanese developer finally got 'the courage' to make another RPG decades later thanks to Toby Fox
News Yoshiro Kimura's new game Stray Children is a spiritual successor to Moon: Remix RPG, but it has more than a little in common with Undertale.
Steam is recovering from intermittent downtime on Tuesday
News Steam is having a hard time.
After years of being criticized as old-fashioned, turn-based RPGs are absolutely crushing it with new ideas
Turnabout You can't open up the Steam store without finding a promising turn-based RPG in 2025.
