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You can relationship-max in GTA 6 as walking along the beach or working out at the gym together increases your couple rating on a four point scale

All Quickhand's Request treasure locations in Phantom Blade Zero

I'm calling it: GTA 6 is officially an immersive sim, based on what you can do with NPCs

Where to find the Flesh Lily in Phantom Blade Zero

How to complete Whence the Weeping in Phantom Blade Zero

Where to find The Banyan's Heart in Phantom Blade Zero

How to beat Hua, Deadly Betrothed in Phantom Blade Zero

How to beat The Gold-Masked One in Phantom Blade Zero

Phantom Blade Zero's best weapon might just be the first one you get

I've been waiting to see a pixel bounce into a perfect corner since childhood and finally this Next Fest Demo delivered it

'Overcooked broke you apart and Stage Fright is there to put you back together'

Leisure Suit Larry is about to take his final bow

A great indie studio is making a sequel to one of my favorite adventures 17 years later, for one simple reason: 'We're not getting any younger, and the world seems to be ending'

Subnautica 2 fans can finally hunt and kill those pesky Nibbler Mangos—in Dave the Diver's crossover DLC

Steam is about to start getting some of the best Japanese pixel art in gaming history

Developer gets a little too silly, recommends deadly psychoactive ingredient in its bad boy-themed cocktail

One story about my first 30 minutes in this post-apocalyptic robot game led multiple people to buy it

Toem 2 review: A sweet sequel that's a tad too easy to be memorable

Fortnite is coming to Linux once Epic improves Easy Anti-Cheat

This 78-year-old grandmother has an insatiable lust for violence (in Fortnite)

Battle royale goes grunge: there's a new PUBG game and it's set in the '90s

Arkheron, an isometric Diablo-like battle royale where you ascend a tower, is getting a more forgiving Spire mode to prepare you for the big leagues

Indie dev earns Reddit love after telling people not to buy their game because it's going on sale soon

The Fortnite-Overwatch crossover means we're talking about Tracer's butt again

It took a while, but Overwatch's iconic heroes have finally been bitten by the collab slop curse

Epic keeps jamming more incredible shotguns into Fortnite, and it might be the best meta ever

Best weapons in Fortnite battle royale, including a funky shotgun-sniper hybrid

Black Library veteran Toby Longworth gives us his tips for voicing the perfect Space Marine

We asked the voice of Eisenhorn, Gaunt, and Garro in Warhammer 40k who his favorite character to play is

Dark Sun, D&D's most heavy metal setting, will be back in 2027

One of my favorite Warhammer 40,000 books is getting an unexpected sequel

Some days I fondly recall Warhammer 40k's first Inquisitor was called 'Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau' and he's still too powerful to be retconned

Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game

Down with tactical rocks

Today I learned the real reason Warhammer 40k's iconic 'Land Raider' got its name and it ain't because it raids the land

Games Workshop showed us The Emperor's current state for the first time in 38 years and it's hard to overstate how monumental that is

Monster Train 2 is getting a new clan, and they're edgy as h̶e̶l̶l heaven

The best haunted card game since Inscryption is back with a new mystery only solitaire freaks can solve

Reigns, Card Shark studio Nerial is closing

Pirate poker battler Piroker has a playtest you can sign up for now

After 894 hours in Slay the Spire 2, these are our 12 strongest opinions

Magic: The Gathering's next big crossover is with itself

Balatro developer LocalThunk turns up on Discord to talk about the 1.1 update and life after burnout: 'I truly am having the best time making the game now'

Hearthstone just got its first new class in four years: Warcraft's fire-breathing panda Monk

Post Malone breaks into his $2 million The One Ring, stressing out a whole room of Magic: The Gathering players: 'our insurance doesn't cover that card'

Wait, how did Lego beat Minecraft to making a city builder?

After playing a bit of Lego Skylines, it seems like a city builder for people who care less about traffic jams and more about decorating

Manor Lords celebrates 4 million copies sold with a new major update which gives players the chance to become 'a cow-herding mogul'

Corsair Cove review: The best pirate game I've played this year

Forget Black Flag Resynced, the best pirate game of 2026 might be a logistics-heavy city builder

You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4

Boldly go where no gamer has gone before in a new Star Trek colony builder that just dropped a demo

You can help save the whales by buying this reef-building game written by the scribe of the Tomb Raider reboot

The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount

Modern Warfare 4's newest map is actually older than the Gen Z & Alpha teens who will play it

Destiny 2 unvaulting update: It sure sounds like the original Destiny is finally coming to PC

Project Titan's end 'immediately instilled a culture of humility' in the Overwatch team which has helped them see the last decade through

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review

Call of Duty passes $40 billion in lifetime revenue, making it one of the most lucrative videogame franchises ever

Overwatch devs took one look at Jetpack Cat and Bastion's combo and went 'oh, that's a little scary'

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 actually runs pretty smoothly with Activision's 'recommended' RTX 3060 Ti graphics card, and here are the settings I use to get the best performance from it

I've tested every graphics setting in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4—tweak these four options for the best performance

Half-Life 3 re-re-re-confirmed: A Valve dev just said 'HLX' out loud

Riot needed absurd player counts 'in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions' for 2XKO, dooming it from launch

Riot co-founder doesn't think 2XKO was 'a mistake' but perhaps a tough sell: 'You're not just competing against games, you're competing against everything'

Riot is ending development of its 2XKO fighting game

Marvel Tōkon's simple but effective combo trials are an elegant tutorial solution that I wish more fighting games had

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls review – A great fighting game suffering from some uniquely PC problems

Marvel Tōkon's first big PC patch has mostly fixed performance woes, though it hasn't done much for its Steam reviews

Marvel Tōkon devs vow to fix performance issues for launch day next week: 'To our PC players, message received'

Marvel Tōkon's developer has apologised to PC players for the beta's performance issues, with only a week until launch

Blade and Magik lead as Marvel Tōkon's most popular characters during its beta

In 2023, an anonymous modder released one of the best horror games of the decade, and they still haven't broken character

It's Amnesia vs Amnesia in the 'scariest game' semifinals—vote now!

Can you name the horror games these deeply unpleasant bathrooms are from?

Vote now: 8 games remain in our scariest games bracket

Vote for the scariest game of all time: Round 1

A free 'micro' horror game from the maker of The Mortuary Assistant is basically if PT was an episode of Law and Order

What to play this Halloween, plus last-minute costume ideas and spooky movie recommendations

Penguin Colony review: A daringly weird horror game whose atmosphere and surprises overcome its rough edges

The best feature in the original Alan Wake is an absence: the man has no reticle

The Regreening is a post-apocalyptic farm sim where you grow animal habitats instead of cash crops

Are we in the cozy gaming gold rush era? 'Cozy' has grown over 250% on Steam and 200% in my inbox since 2024

I played 20 cozy game demos in Steam Next Fest and these 5 made it onto my wishlist

Cozy solarpunk life-sim Loftia is offering an in-depth demo as part of Steam Next Fest

Haunted Chocolatier is still 'a town game', but it'll be more of an action RPG: 'It's for the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines'

Be warned: Nivalis Nights may not be the cozy game you expect: 'If you want a cozy existence in this city, you're going to have to earn it'

'I was nice to you three times in a row, so can I have one sex please?': Why Nivalis Nights intentionally avoided transactional romances

Nivalis Nights review: An avalanche of fascinating characters carrying a decent shop sim on their backs

7 musical clips of this incredibly charming magical school life sim with its goofy classmates and delightful soundtrack

OCE players are stuck in perpetual night on WoW: Forever, but its devs are considering a fix

World of Warcraft: Forever's shiny lighting and water changes will be coming to retail: 'I don't know when, but I know they're talking about doing it'

WoW: Forever's update schedule will be 'a little more laid back' than the main MMO

World of Warcraft was meant to have viable levelling gear from professions way back in 2004, but the designers on raids and dungeons 'cheated a little bit'

FF14's new Evolved jobs won't deal a 'huge amount' more damage than their Reborn counterparts, says Koji Fox

Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft's class designer 'crammed as much' of the MMO into it so that even veteran tabletop players can experience something new

World of Warcraft: Forever's last-minute patch transforms its bovines into racecars capable of zooming 60% faster than everyone else

The best MMOs on PC

I have jumped in WoW: Forever's beta 7738 times, roughly 135 jumps an hour, and if you'd like to find out if you beat me there's a stat tracker

Riot resurrected 3 of its biggest League of Legends pop groups, but only one emerged victorious

110 million votes later Nurse Harrow has finally made it into Deadlock, with special thanks to a particularly dedicated player who 'cast exactly 1,000 votes for her'

3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'

Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update makes Valve's MOBA my favorite videogame setting in years

Deadlock surpasses Team Fortress 2's all-time concurrent player count peak as it adds a chess wizard

Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted

Deadlock isn't a MOBA or a third-person shooter anymore—City Never Sleeps has turned it into a horror game

Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it's all thanks to Valve's embrace of New Yorkyness

Deadlock's new hero Rat King has over 100 voice lines dedicated to throwing rats at you

If you love horror but hate actually being scared, I've got the perfect Halloween game for you

It's our new daily game fixation and we all stink at it: Can you guess how much used cars cost?

Triple-A Minesweeper is a gleeful send-up of blockbuster gaming's worst habits, from yellow paint to characters who talk too much

You should buy Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

Talos Principle 2 is $3

$30 extra for early access?

More weird asymmetrical co-op moments

Free puzzle game 20 More Somehow Even Smaller Mazes follows the original 20 Small Mazes with an additional 20 (somehow even smaller) mazes

Co-op puzzle game We Were Here Tomorrow is out next month, so you've got time to practise your communication skills

How to start the Charting the Unknown DLC in Crimson Desert

Witchbrook is delayed again, now set for release in 2027

One of the best quests in Baldur's Gate 3 is also its scariest, and it doesn't have anything to do with ghosts or vampires

Here's the Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown release time for your region

Dark Messiah's new edition adds co-op, cut content and console-exclusive maps to the 20-year-old orc-kicking extravaganza, and it's coming to Steam this year

One day before launch, ARPG Emberville gets delayed until 2027

The developer of one of my favorite 2020s RPGs does it because of BioWare: 'Baldur's Gate 1 is the first game I truly loved'

CD Projekt marks the 19th anniversary of its first Witcher RPG with a tribute to BioWare: 'Their support helped turn our vision into Geralt’s first interactive adventure'

The creator of our running RPG of the year weighs in on BioWare's closure: 'They were fundamental to the genre'

After a month of voting, PC Gamer readers have picked the best RTS unit of all time

Vote now: The Mammoth Tank and Priest go head-to-head to determine the best RTS unit of all time

I've played 2 of Dawn of War 4's campaigns, and they're everything I hoped they'd be

Semifinals: The brutal war to determine the best RTS unit of all time needs your votes

Legendary composer Frank Klepacki says the RTS genre isn't dead, but he would like to see devs get a little more creative with it

Does Blizzard's revival of its classic games signal a return of the 'old Blizzard?'

Quarterfinals: Vote for the best RTS unit of all time

The greatest RTS unit of all time, determined by democracy

After Warcraft 3's first new campaign in 23 years, let's normalize releasing new DLC for ancient RTS games