
Steven Messner
With over 7 years of experience with in-depth feature reporting, Steven's mission is to chronicle the fascinating ways that games intersect our lives. Whether it's colossal in-game wars in an MMO, or long-haul truckers who turn to games to protect them from the loneliness of the open road, Steven tries to unearth PC gaming's greatest untold stories. His love of PC gaming started extremely early. Without money to spend, he spent an entire day watching the progress bar on a 25mb download of the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 demo that he then played for at least a hundred hours. It was a good demo.
Latest articles by Steven Messner

You can install Windows on a Steam Deck and possibly other game storefronts too
By Steven Messner published
News Unlike the Nintendo Switch, the Steam Deck will be an open platform that lets you do whatever you want.

PC Gamer plays: Nier Automata, Trials of Fire, Mundaun, and Elite Dangerous
By Steven Messner, Robin Valentine, Rachel Watts, Matt Killeen published
PCG PLAYS The latest reports from virtual worlds by PCG's intrepid explorers.

Warframe trailer teases its long-awaited new expansion being revealed this weekend
By Steven Messner published
News After years of waiting, The New War is finally coming.

World of Warcraft's latest cinematic is a narrative disaster and players hate it
By Steven Messner published
Plz no After months of waiting, Sylvanas's controversial storyline has taken another annoying twist.

Tencent is now using facial recognition to stop children in China from gaming all night
By Steven Messner published
News China's biggest tech company takes late-night gaming sessions very seriously.

The Horde is so popular in WoW: Burning Crusade Classic that it's beginning to ruin the game
By Steven Messner published
Horde Rulez Players are divided on how to solve an issue that's plagued WoW for 17 years.

People are really pissed at Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster's ugly fonts
By Steven Messner published
News The curse of the Final Fantasy remakes lives on.

World of Warcraft's long-awaited 9.1 update, Chains of Domination, is now live
By Steven Messner published
News It's here! It's finally here!

Magic: Legends is closing down permanently in October
By Steven Messner published
News Players who spent money on the multiplayer action RPG will receive a full refund, its developer says.

Everything we know about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' Chains of Domination update
By Steven Messner published
into the maw Shadowlands' first big update is now live.
PC Gamer's Best of E3 2021 Awards
By Tyler Wilde published
🏆 We sifted through 100-plus games to pick our top reveals and gameplay trailers from this year's all-digital E3.

Monster Hunter Stories 2 will have a demo on June 25 and progress will carry to the full game
By Steven Messner published
News This new trailer also gives us our best look at the story so far.

It's time for the Master Chief to die
By Steven Messner published
Warrior's death I'm tired of Halo dragging its protagonist out for more adventures at the expense of his emotional depth.

SacriFire combines Vagrant Story's combat with Octopath Traveler's gorgeous graphics
By Steven Messner published
Interview We talk to the developers of this JRPG with a modern twist and awesome set of inspirations.

EVE Online is scary but its new EVE Academy website is a fantastic way to learn the basics
By Steven Messner published
News Developer CCP Games has launched a whole new website aimed at beginners, and it's actually pretty dang helpful.

Martial arts battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint arrives August 12 with the biggest chainsaw I've seen in awhile
By Steven Messner published
News It's a really big chainsaw, guys.

This newly revealed Final Fantasy game is so bad it's good
By Steven Messner published
News Final Fantasy Origin: Stranger of Paradise is so cheesy you could melt it on tortilla chips.

Arkane's next game is Redfall, a Left 4 Dead-style shooter with magic and vampires
By Steven Messner published
News It's coming next summer.

Far Cry 6 lets you bring a cock to a gun fight
By Steven Messner published
News One of the new companions in Far Cry 6 is a murderous attack rooster.

Psychonauts 2 launches on August 25, is free with Game Pass
By Steven Messner published
News The new trailer looks like exactly what you'd want from a sequel.

The $1,000 VHS tape and purple suits from Devolver's E3 show were actually for sale and they already sold out
By Steven Messner published
News The VHS went for $1,000, while the purple suits were $500. They sold out in seconds.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla will get a second year's worth of expansions and loads of free content
By Steven Messner published
News After the Siege of Paris arrives this summer, players can look forward to a new expansion featuring Odin.

Despot's Game is like Teamfight Tactics except it's also a roguelike dungeon crawler
By Steven Messner published
News Build an army and watch it battle enemies (and other players) and then die and do it all over.
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