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May 31
- Call of Duty yet again promises 'no clowny skins' for Modern Warfare 4, but we've been burned before
- Star Citizen's single-player component is in the 'closing stages' of development according to Chris Roberts, as rumours of another Squadron 42 delay circulate
- Steam reviewer says 'I am done with this game' after 10,000 hours of Destiny 2, then plays another 160 hours just to be sure
- Before Mina the Hollower, Yacht Club paused a 3D Shovel Knight game that's 'not far from being showable' and a possible next project
- Factorio's next major update will also be its last, as its developer announces it has 'reached a good place to conclude active gameplay development'
- Mass Effect and Metal Gear actor Jennifer Hale calls on studios to take responsibility for their AI use: 'Ain't nobody making you do it'
- This fan remake of 1999's Medal of Honor proved so popular that its creator added a level cut from the original game
- Okay, maybe I could be convinced AI monitors aren't all bad
- The device in my hands feels like the standard all new handheld gaming PCs will be judged by
- The Stop Killing Games movement hits another major milestone as a game preservation bill passes California State Assembly vote
- 007 First Light mods are here so you can play as Lenny Kravitz, Agent 47, or a French maid
- Thick as Thieves is making changes, but not the one I think matters most
May 30
- Backrooms to triple previous A24 opening weekend record at $85+ million
- Traffic to DuckDuckGo's proudly 'No AI' search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update
- After more than two decades, the creator of Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint.net, and it's all thanks to a 'slam dunk case of trademark infringement'
- Bungie spills the beans on combat tuning for Marathon Season 2, and it's bad news for shotgun lovers and thermal snipers
- Balatro publisher Playstack only discovered it because they had a guy checking all the new releases on Steam every day: 'I saw the game the day it went up on Steam'
- It seems Terraria's developer is as bad at making small updates as it is final ones, as it says its latest balance patch is much more than 'adjusting a few numbers'
- Pragmata's developers take all your comparisons to Xbox 360 shooters as a 'huge compliment', though I'm not convinced by their theory for why players are making the connection
May 29
- The Witcher 3 sold another 5 million copies over the last year: 'This cements its place among the best-selling videogames in history'
- Bungie devs have resurrected an obscene amount of guns for Destiny 2's final update: 'My body physically hurts from the amount of items we were updating'
- Game Pass success story: It turns out that when you make things cheaper, more people will buy them
- Balatro publisher Playstack could soon belong to the same private equity firm that owns Fandom and GameSpot
- StarCraft 2 development ended 6 years ago, but Blizzard still won't stop messing with it
- Fable 4 is delayed into 2027 and we all know why
- An Arc Raiders player demonstrates how to kill a Bastion in 16 seconds without a Deadline—now I'm questioning my own skills
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 promises more 'grounded' cosmetics, and I feel like I've heard this before
- Amazon bins an internal AI leaderboard for its Kiro employees, because they were burning through too many costly tokens
- CDPR is aiming to 'release 3 Witcher games within a 6 year period' but don't expect any expansions for the upcoming trilogy
- One of the ideas pitched to save Destiny 2 was reportedly a 'Destiny Infinity' relaunch and a return to the annual expansion model
- AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, 'Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do'
- Counter-Strike is good for personal development, but don't let me tell you, listen to this bona fide Buddhist monk with a beast RTX 4090 rig instead
- Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory
- An Overwatch poster has been spotted in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, leaving some to speculate a collaboration is on the horizon
- I absolutely agree with 33% of you when it comes to your choice of freaky Subnautica 2 critters
- It's only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams
- Anbernic claims quiet memory size downgrade in its retro handheld devices is 'an unexpected error' without addressing criticisms over speed decreases
- 'Basically Lego for gamers': This new game controller has modular buttons, sticks, grips, and even vibration motors
- It looks like the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld powered by Intel's new Arc G-series chips will have a pinch of ROG Xbox Ally to it
- This supply chain Sankey diagram for an Nvidia AI megachip is a handy guide to understanding just how easy it is to ruin the prices of graphics cards
- Take-Two CEO says 'former Rockstar employees' have tried to match GTA's success and 'haven't been able to'—and while he doesn't name names, that's gotta sting for a certain someone
- 007 First Light has sold 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours and claims the victory of 'fastest selling title in IO Interactive's history'
- Tim Sweeney takes swipes at Valve for Steam Deck price hike, blames it on the 'component parts supply chain for megayachts'
- Overwatch's general manager has ignited player hopes for an animated series after revealing that he 'would not rule out' other narrative experiences in the future
- Acer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld gaming PC with new Intel G-series chips looks a lot like a beefier Lenovo Legion Go S
- In a sea of videogame movie adaptations, 28% of you are sick and tired of 'em and 24% of you are PC Gamer as hell
May 28
- In a bittersweet return to form, Destiny 2's final update is giving players reasons to roam its public zones once again
- 6 months before the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar employees in the UK have formed a union
- After the success of Lord of Hatred, Diablo 4 looks to be turning its back on the fun in its next season
- 'Proper big': The Witcher 3's new expansion will be 'closer to Blood and Wine' in scope
- 4 years later, Infinity Ward reflects on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's controversial changes: 'It came at the cost of feel and fun'
- This week's most compelling Steam demo is a torment engine disguised as golf
- Despite astronomical price hike, the Steam Deck has sold out again in North America
- A malware dev has committed a magnificent self-own after an AI-coded malicious package leaked its own GitHub private token
- Subnautica 2's botched bonus deal is about to wipe out more than one-third of Krafton's $736 million annual profit for 2025
- ByteDance has had enough of waiting months for processors, so it's going to make them itself
- Is this a biblically accurate robot or have I just spent too much time down the cryptozoology rabbit hole
- Intel's new Arc G-Series chips will probably be the best for handheld gaming—but not for long, and only because AMD has dropped the ball
- Liquid metal hasn't been used to make machines for crushing humanity just yet, but it is being used for rapid PCB prototyping
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era teases a roguelike mode as it hits 1 million sales
- The next Call of Duty is Modern Warfare 4, Infinity Ward's first game in 4 years
- Modern Warfare 4 will bring back DMZ, Call of Duty's extraction shooter
- New Intel-based handheld gaming PCs sound great but all signs point towards yet more prohibitively expensive price tags
- Intel announces two Arc G-Series chips for handheld gaming PCs, promising 'seamless gaming experiences on the go'
- LG reportedly denies plans to sell TV business to Hisense, but there's probably still a display war coming that could impact the PC
- Grim Dawn's gigantic final expansion will be out in July
- Someone is trying to use lost property 'finder' laws to gain legal ownership of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets, with just one of them being worth nearly $6,000,000,000
- Paralives received 'over 100,000 bug reports' in less than a week, as its creator reminds us that life sims are really hard to make
- A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025's most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading
- 'There are two 'P's in the word Google' says the company's upgraded AI Overview, as an old LLM issue rears its ugly head
- Victims of cheaters in Marvel Rivals will be refunded all the ranked points they lost if they report them thanks to NetEase's new Anti-Cheat Rank Compensation System
- Marathon season 2 is kicking off with a free week so new players can try Bungie's extraction shooter out on a 'clean slate'
- Samsung workers to take home $340,000 on average thanks to union's vote to approve historic profit-share deal
- Samsung ups its 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor ante with impressive new 360 Hz, RGB-stripe, HDR 600 panel
May 27
- Indie dev earns Reddit love after telling people not to buy their game because it's going on sale soon
- Steam Workshop now looks like it was designed in this decade
- Playing 007 First Light? Send us gameplay videos galore and you could win a $500 Amazon gift card
- Zenless Zone Zero 'copied my puzzle game,' indie dev says, posts a pretty convincing video to prove it
- No Man's Sky now has its own Death Star with a laser so big it can 'destroy space station sized objects'
- Steam Deck price skyrockets, 1TB model now costs $949
- The Witcher 3 reveals new system requirements and it's now Windows 11 or nothing
- YouTube says it's making AI-generated content labels more prominent—and to help you see them, here they are zoomed in
- Remedy's CEO isn't worried about Control Resonant launching close to GTA 6: 'It’s going to put the spotlight even more on games than maybe in past years'
- Backrooms director Kane Parsons explains how influential Valve's Portal is to his work: 'I frequently have dreams where I'm just in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center'
- It looks like Nvidia's AI inference GPU won't see the light of day this year, which could actually be good news for PC gamers
- You will reportedly be able to move the annoying voices in your Discord calls far away with an upcoming spatial audio feature
- 'This world means so much to us': Overwatch's game director celebrates its 10 year anniversary by mapping out how it all began
- DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode
- Potential DLSS 5 references have been found in the latest Nvidia driver, but it's all gone quiet on the AI image enhancement front
- Hideo Kojima finally gets to go to space—but only in an AI-generated ad for Prada
- Resident Evil Requiem has a demo now, despite the fact it came out 3 months ago and sold over 7 million copies
- 007 First Light joins an ever-expanding list of 2026 games without up-to-date AMD FSR or Intel XeSS support
- I'm trying to work out what Noctua's brush-like Computex teaser might be and all I can come up with is a hairy fan
- Taiwanese buyers of Gigabyte's new RTX 5090 can register to receive a 'gold item', because nothing says wealth like Nvidia's most expensive gaming GPU
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to invest around $150,000,000,000 in Taiwan each year, describing the country as the 'epicentre of the AI revolution'
- This Corsair RAM features 'light-emitting micro-drilling technology' and looks gorgeous but it's 2026 so of course it costs $600 for 32 GB
- Team Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible'
- The Nvidia Control Panel is no more, an ex-control panel, kicked the bucket, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisib... okay, it's being retired
- CD Projekt Red confirms it's working on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion after accidentally leaking it on its own storefront
- Two memory manufacturers join Samsung in the $1 trillion market cap club, global DRAM revenue is nearing $100,000,000,000, and I'm here with my head in my hands
- This soft and bendy hologram fan is touch friendly, and also *checks notes* can be used to prevent chemical burns
- A rumoured Intel Nova Lake mobile chip that's 100% E-cores with a beefy iGPU would be great news for handhelds, if it wasn't destined for edge computing only
- Paralives charmed me on day one, but the roadmap outlines the real life sim of my dreams
- Paralives players are getting jumpscared by a naked chap called Charlie glitching into their games and now I too have been Charlie'd
May 26
- Remedy's new CEO thinks cross-media deals will help its games sell more, and for once I think I agree
- 007 First Light release date and launch times
- 007 First Light review roundup: 'The best James Bond game since GoldenEye'
- SimRacing Expo's first-ever US event proves driving sims have finally hit the American mainstream
- Destiny 2 players are processing their grief by posting their most embarrassing self-owns, and I've never felt more seen
- Forza Horizon 6 players are being terrorised by the plague that is Bowie Knife99
- 'There's a lot of rogue attempts at this': Amid AI music remixing plans, Spotify chief says he wants the company to be 'the one that's legal' and 'the one that's controlled'
- Marvel Rivals has banned 485 accounts and dished out just 3 hardware bans after the latest slew of cheaters but players are begging for more
- Nvidia's first in-house CPU benchmarked, beats x86 and ARM chips alike but only in Nvidia-sanctioned tests
- Take-Two forces shutdown of Grand Theft Auto multiplayer modding platform Rage:MP
- Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve's still experimenting
- Former Tekken boss completes his 30-year career with a pilgrimage to the fighting game's holy land: Waffle House
- Cosplayer creates a real-life Cyberpunk 2077 jacket, complete with a flexible OLED collar that you can actually game on
- TSMC employees reportedly following Samsung workers in threatening to strike over bonus cuts despite record profits
- This new gaming mouse looks to combine tech similar to Logitech's analogue clicks and Razer's frame sync but I'm a little sceptical
- Brian Blessed says that playing Gotrek Gurnisson in Warhammer is 'six and a half times more demanding' than King Lear
- Nvidia's still-yet-to-be-announced N1X Arm chip is referenced on a Lenovo login page, so make of that what you will
- No, says Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, of course Red Dead Online isn't a missed opportunity, the game sold 85 million copies
- Hey PC Gamer, where's your 007 First Light review?
- Samsung has reportedly developed 900-layer flash memory chips and I'm thinking SSDs could get seriously cheap if this AI bubble ever pops
- Guess what else the PC industry is short of now? Yes, that's right: multilayer ceramic capacitors
- 'Technology is never neutral': Pope Leo XIV criticises 'culture of power' driving AI race, and refuses to be taken in by consciousness claims
- GTA 6 was meant to release today, and amid everyone mourning what could have been one superfan decides to queue up at GameStop anyway
- MMOs don't need 'to be 200 hours of unique content' at launch, says industry vet
- League of Legends won't be following the trend of having tons of collaboration skins: 'The second you do [it], the tone of your game completely changes'
- 'I don't think we're going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some…advocate or talk about': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'delighted to be wrong' about AI-induced job cuts
- 'People want MMOs', says veteran designer Jack Emmert, it's the publishers chasing WoW-level scope that are the problem
- OLED gaming monitor sales are booming as shipments increase 78% in the first quarter of 2026
May 25
- Talos Principle 3 will definitely be the last one in the series, because 'so many videogames just don't end, and then you have an endless kind of cliffhanger'
- More Elden Ring filming leaks: Here's a castle with some suspiciously familiar guys on it
- Ultra-hard survival sandbox Kenshi passes 3 million copies sold, teases fans with 'Kenshi 2 When?' website
- 'We’re just thrilled the stars aligned': Less than 2 years after his own game fully shut down, Jason Voorhees is coming to Dead by Daylight
- The new game from the makers of Botanicula and Chuchel is like 1984 meets the Keystone Kops, but in a way that actually works
- Before Dishonored, Arkane was tapped to make Thief 4, and my heart weeps for what might have been: 'We had an amazing pitch for Thief'
- GamesRadar's dispatch from BitSummit Punch 2026 is live now: Here's how to watch
- Crimson Desert's latest patch adds 20 new types of small animal and then hands Kliff a shotgun
- Peak's success helped Aggro Crab commit to co-op, says studio head: 'We thought we were a character action studio'
- Helldivers 2 begins the long march back into the community's good books with a technical patch that represents the 'opening salvo' in a battle for better performance
- You can now watch the first 13 minutes of 007: First Light, and the intro is giving serious Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes vibes
- Star Citizen blasts through $1 billion in player funding, as its developer lists a new $5,000 spaceship for sale that is 'not yet ready to play'
- Save up to $600 on a complete Corsair Build with next-gen GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD
- Paralives launch times and release date
- One of the first games made in the Build Engine is about to be delisted
May 24
- PC gaming's very own indie-themed Smash Bros. just added the guy from Spelunky, who I now know is named Guy Spelunky
- Deus Ex, Marathon actor Elias Toufexis doesn't get why people root for games to fail: 'Life is so short, man'
- Epic reveals first Unreal Engine 6 game, and it's not Fortnite
- Peak boss doesn't mind us calling it friendslop: 'Why not make a game where the point is to hang out with your friends?'
- Forza Horizon 6 speeds into Steam's top 5 most played games with over 300k concurrent players
- The design lead of Half-Life's biggest competitor says that its publisher was so 'pissed off' by the time the game launched that it didn't bother testing it properly: 'We got trashed in the press because of bugs'
- A game developer compared Godot and Unity by making the same game in both engines, and he's found a clear winner
- Space Marine 2 gets a steep discount, a free trial and an update that adds a 'major revamp' of Siege Mode, as its multiplayer continues to outpace games like Marathon
- I can't wait to get murdered by flowers in this rad-looking survival horror game
- Keep your GTA 6, the news I can finally play the console-exclusive DLC for Saints Row 2 from 2009 on PC is what I've been waiting for
- Jackbox's first externally published game looks like the shot in the arm the stealth genre needs, and it'll be out this year
- A 23-year-old D&D CRPG just got patched to add achievements and fix a bug that stopped you from earning XP
May 23
- Our readers are clear: They want Destiny 3, which is awkward, because Bungie reportedly isn't making Destiny 3
- Kickstarter rolls back new mature content guidelines after week of backlash
- 14 years ago we published our Elder Scrolls 6 wishlist, and honestly? It still holds up
- Diablo 2 players made nearly 2 million warlocks in a single month
- The best birding board game on PC is getting a sequel about dragons, which are like cooler birds
- Deadlock's latest 'small update' yet again remixes basic mechanics and rebalances most of the roster
- A Broken Sword movie is in the works, aiming to move the adventure game classics into 'the next medium it deserves'
- You can help save the whales by buying this reef-building game written by the scribe of the Tomb Raider reboot
- As it rapidly approaches $1 billion in player funding, Star Citizen goes free to play until May 27
- The director of the best Splinter Cell game reckons that modern lighting engines are making stealth games 'so much harder to read'
May 22
- Shock, tears, and relief: How Destiny 2's most popular creators reacted to the end of the legendary shooter
- Last Flag studio lays off half its employees as it puts 'the future of the game in the hands of our players'
- Former Bungie dev says 'you'd be surprised how many times' expansions were pitched for a fan-favorite Destiny archvillain who's now left hanging
- Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry'
- Why play Wordle when you could be playing this new word puzzle game that rewards you with frogs?
- Four years later, Microsoft finally finishes fighting over the Activision acquisition
- EU politician says killing games is bad, but 'wokeness' and the Black samurai Yasuke are the real problem
- Alright, so maybe Zohran Mamdani isn't New York's first gamer mayor
- Apple legend Steve Wozniak makes history again: Actually gets applause talking about AI at commencement speech
- The EFortune Cookie is an adorable e-paper fortune-telling device and I really want to give it a bite
- It's Lenovo a-go-go as the company is responsible for nearly 1 in 4 of all PCs shipped worldwide
- An Arc Raiders player who's 'sick of hearing about PvE' has come up with a 'Rival Gangs' PvP mode, and it sounds sick
- Riot taunts would-be hackers using physical hardware to cheat: 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight'
- 'What we’re building is grounded in consent, credit, and compensation for the artists and songwriters that take part': Planned Spotify AI tool can generate remixes and covers
- 3 years on from laying off over 1,000 people, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are sending daily emails and physical letters encouraging the survivors to not unionise
- Dying Light's former director believes devs are obligated 'to focus and listen to the players' because as soon as a game's released 'it stops being only your game'
- Intel's freshly leaked roadmap for desktop and laptop CPUs is so complicated that it's given me a headache, but at least it all looks very promising on the Core Ultra processor front
- The US government is pumping $2,000,000,000 in CHIPS and Science Act money into quantum computing firms
- Destiny developers reflect on the end of an era: 'We all worked so hard to maintain the quality bar under unrealistic constraints'
- Ubisoft has staff for '70 Warhorse-sized studios' after cuts, says Kingdom Come director—'That could be 10 KCD2-sized games… released every year'
- If this breakdown of the full cost of producing your favourite graphics card is accurate, then prices for certain GPUs are going to make 64 GB DDR5 kits look cheap
- 84% of you rightly practice good desktop icon hygiene, but it turns out 16% of PC Gamer readers are just plain monsters
- Zach Cregger's inspiration for the upcoming Resident Evil film once again proves he knows ball
- A single Nvidia Vera Rubin rack is estimated to cost $7,803,148 with over $2 million of that figure spent on memory alone
- Replacing the Viper V4 Pro's skates gave one reviewer some Razer warranty trouble after glass pad sensor issues
- Total War: Warhammer 40k's new trailer all but confirms my second favorite commissar and his long-time ork nemesis as playable characters
- Dune: Awakening has decided it's 'not an MMO' anymore
- You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock
- You can crank wild performance out of a MacBook Neo if only you use a giant industrial air blower and Peltier thermoelectric cooling
- One of the hundreds of Warhammer games is currently free to keep forever on Steam
- 40k XCOM-like Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is getting a sequel and this time we'll get to purge 'seven distinctive enemy factions'
- Bungie isn't immediately making Destiny 3, is planning layoffs, reports Bloomberg
May 21
- Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher is confident enough in its release date to brag about the ungodly amounts of money it's about to make
- There is no discovery on this earth more pure than a closet full of your dad's '90s big box PC games
- Destiny 2 is dead, long live Destiny 3? 'Until I see the words Destiny 3 will never happen, I'm going to believe'
- A trio of former BioWare devs are making 'a neon-noir supernatural mystery game set in a stylized Canadian cityscape'
- Bad news for Krafton: Subnautica 2 broke 4 million copies sold in less than a week
- Destiny 2 is officially over: 'Live service content updates' end in June as Bungie moves on to new projects
- Dawn of War 4 just got a release date (or 2), a DLC roadmap, and Crusade Mode plans
- The Omnissiah heard your prayers: Darktide's finally getting a cog boy on June 23rd
- Playing a murderous ratman in this newly-announced Warhammer platformer is my penance for bisecting thousands of Skaven over the years
- Mouseward is an adorably gloomy soulslike where you play an itty bitty undead mouse collecting stars, and it has a demo out now
- The latest 100% Chinese-made GPU may still lag behind an RTX 3060 but it could be the start of something big in graphics cards
- AMD is investing $10 billion+ into Taiwan tech to 'accelerate next-gen AI infrastructure', with some fancy new toys on the way
- Sorry, Black Flag fans: the new Assassin's Creed remake isn't adding any more legendary ship battles
- '[Marvel Rivals] scared us a bit': Overwatch boss says the explosive success of another hero shooter prompted Blizzard to take risks
- Nvidia continues to make astronomical amounts of money from AI, with the first quarter of 2026 being its biggest to date
- An Overwatch player has come up with an ingenious plan to remind others how to actually play the game: 'A little ego check never hurt anyone'
- Samsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on
- Witcher 3's heaviest scene stunned its devs into silence, but Cyberpunk 2's associate director says it was crucial for 'understanding the craft' of quest design
- 'Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get go': Nvidia CEO insists the future looks bright
- It's the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today
- Another quarter, another quarterly update from Nvidia that doesn't mention gaming
- AMD announces production ramp of first 2 nm CPUs as Intel teases 10A and 7A chip roadmap
- SpaceX has listed Grok's 'spicy' mode as a risk in its initial public offering: 'These modes may be more irreverent and harsher than our standard offerings'
- Security researcher describes freshly uncovered Windows 11 vulnerability as 'one of the most insane discoveries I ever found.'
- Nvidia says 'demand for AI infrastructure continues to expand at an unprecedented pace' but after speaking to experts about it, I'm not so sure
- WoW: Midnight's hardcore raiders are on a gold treadmill, with a first-time clear of Mythic Midnight Falls costing around 87,750 gold in repairs alone
- Rebooted AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU for the 10th anniversary of the AM4 socket spotted online for $310, keeping DDR4 and your hopes of a PC upgrade alive
May 20
- I read every document in the Musk vs Altman case and my takeaway is—'Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point'
- Nearly a decade after its last update, Darksiders Warmastered Edition gets a photo mode and motion controls in a surprise new patch
- Splitgate studio reveals its new game, looks a lot like its old game
- Civ 7's massive overhaul update brings its highest Steam player count in over a year
- Valve asks New York court to dismiss Counter-Strike lawsuit, says 'people enjoy surprises' and equating loot boxes to gambling is 'nonsensical'
- Another live service game is dead just a few months after launch
- Embark busts 9 myths about Arc Raiders' aggression-based matchmaking, and says defending yourself is no longer a hostile action
- 007 First Light's James Bond (probably) won't be a sexist, misogynist dinosaur: 'Some things fall by the wayside,' IO Interactive says
- An AI speaker messed up and skipped the names of students at a college commencement ceremony and yes, there were many boos
- This indie dev's dungeon crawling 'descent into madness' was inspired by motherly love
- Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension'
- Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher'
- Critical Role finally releases a full-scale map of Campaign 4's main city, and I'm deeply jealous to not have their personal cartographer at my table
- If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams
- 'If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff': Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren't inevitable
- Backrooms actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was surprised to find out the 30,000 square foot set is the first of its kind: 'I thought that somewhere it had been built before'
- Microsoft plans to launch a cheaper 8 GB Surface laptop later this year which won't meet the requirements of a Copilot+ PC
- The Mass Effect-like Exodus 'is effectively D&D in space,' Hasbro CEO says
- Embracer Group cuts itself into pieces, this is its last resort: Bifurcation, new listing—licensing out Kain and JC Denton
- Subnautica 2 devs have heard your 'strong request' for combat, but it's not going to happen: 'Subnautica has always been built around vulnerability, exploration, and survival'
- Tech leaker suggests that AMD has a Ryzen 7 7700X3D lined up in the wings but if the specs are correct, it'll need to be genuinely cheap to sell well
- Arc Raiders has added Denuvo anticheat 'initially to a limited player pool' after a successful rollout in The Finals
- 'AI Mode has been a revelation, our biggest upgrade to Search ever. People love it,' says Google CEO
- TSMC employees can now buy company-branded shoes modelled by CEO C.C. Wei, or a chip-themed rice cooker with a 'wafer-shaped steaming plate'
- Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive
- 81-year-old Minecraft streamer swatted while raising money for grandson's cancer treatment
- Final Fantasy 11 expected a 'sharp player decline' once the hype from the FF14 crossover and welcome back campaigns ended, but that never came
- Intel chief: 'In the past, we made a lot of mistakes... from day one I came on board as CEO, I have all the engineering report to me'
- Valorant gets Anti-Lag 2 but after testing it I don't think users with high-end AMD rigs should crack open the champagne
- The rumours were true: Kingdom Come studio is working on an RPG set in Tolkien's Middle-earth
- Cairn revolutionizes bragging rights, lets you print a shirt showing your playthrough ascent from an in-game menu
May 19
- Loot is too good in co-op RPG Fellowship, so its devs are trying to convince players why making it worse is better
- Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is… a game that's been out for almost 2 years?
- Hasbro cancelled a D&D game from the Jedi: Fallen Order director
- Arc Raiders says our bad with those gun durability nerfs, reinforces a bunch of weapons by up to 54%
- Struggling Witcher spinoff brings acclaimed Destiny 2 narrative veteran onboard as new lead writer
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag star Matt Ryan says the term 'voice actor' is outdated: 'You see the performances in the eyes, it blows me away'
- Microsoft says it's going to 'fundamentally raise the bar' on driver quality, reliability and security across Windows
- Paralives looks packed with tiny features I've been desperately wanting in The Sims for years
- Tom Kane, voice actor whose work spanned Star Wars: KOTOR to The Powerpuff Girls' dad, dies aged 64
- Interpol's 'Operation Ramz' has arrested over 200 people for phishing scams, malware threats, and security breaches
- Party Animals' studio finally cancels its AI video contest and promises to approach topics like this in the future 'with a much more humble and cautious attitude'
- Steam killed its 'RPGMaker' user tag yesterday, and impacted devs are unexpectedly happy about it
- Intel is reportedly forcing PC builders to buy its latest, most expensive 18A CPUs and I'm wondering what that means for Arrow Lake desktop chips
- Discord just got the privacy feature it probably should have had for years, introducing end-to-end encryption for very nearly every voice and video call
- World's largest film archive has a collection of internet memes now, including a granny having a cathartic GTA rampage and Limmy's Purple Burglar Alarm
- Subnautica 2's EULA is so severe that even this news story breaks it
- Survival RPG Outward 2 will run just fine on 'potato' settings, and as proof, here's testimony from an actual potato
- I can't believe a tabletop RPG based on Ubisoft's The Division has proved to be so popular
- Arc Raiders' new trader comes to Speranza stacked with cosmetics, premium currency, and blueprints
- Microsoft announces plans to give you more control over the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu
- Final Fantasy creator Sakaguchi praises AI slop trailer for a FF6 remake, earns himself a light ribbing from battle designer on the first 2 games
- Microsoft continues to build towards a passwordless future by phasing out an authentication method that's become 'a leading source of fraud'
- Stardew Valley doesn't have any microtransactions because Eric Barone values the player 'more than the money I could squeeze out of everyone'
- I just learnt I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 with a broken camera for 15 years
- Former Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity
- LG reveals the world's first native 1,000 Hz 1080p panel but you're gonna need a beast of a rig to make good use of it
- 'Please stop submitting AI slop code': team behind popular PS3 emulator call time on user submitted vibe coding
May 18
- It's official: Steam decrees 'bullet heaven' the name of the Vampire Survivors genre
- Slaying 2,401 treasure goblins is too many treasure goblins for Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred to handle, says bloodthirsty player who lost all their loot
- This Subnautica 2 mod lets you kill all the fish you want
- Don't expect to kill fish in a future Subnautica 2 patch: 'You are here to exist on this planet, not to dominate it'
- Took too long now your case is gone: Elon Musk loses trial against Sam Altman and OpenAI
- Before landing the lead role in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, star Matt Ryan actually thought he was auditioning for a pirate TV show
- Ken Levine says he had to leave Bioshock behind because 'things can own you if you hold them too tightly'
- Grand Theft Auto 6 preorders foretold by a Best Buy leak have not come to pass
- All Will Rise devs 'definitely expect some pushback from Western audiences' over its depiction of violent resistance and ecoterrorism
- The creator of OpenClaw used $1,300,000+ of OpenAI tokens in 30 days, which is a hell of a perk
- 'The company’s current business model is unsustainable': CEO of Bitcoin ATM operator blames increasing regulation for bankruptcy
- 'The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable': Linus Torvalds laments how people are wasting the Linux team's time with LLMs
- 'We are not a killing game,' says Subnautica 2 dev: 'Go play Sons of the Forest or something if you want to kill'
- You can thank a bad Dungeons & Dragons DM for one of Shin Megami Tensei's coolest mechanics
- This 'very distracting' PC has been filled with screens displaying 15,000 animated gifs in a glorious, migraine-inducing 13 hour+ loop
- Exodus is going all-out with its bizarre interstellar physics, and you can learn more during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase and the PC Gaming Show
- Take-Two's CEO says AI's not in the business of making hits, 'datasets by their very nature are backward looking', but that doesn't mean AI can't be 'super helpful'
- Overclockers squeeze a record-topping 9.2 GHz out of a 14900KF, just 800 MHz shy of the ten gigs that Intel promised us all those years ago
- 'I understand that fear': Ex-Google CEO loudly booed by stadium full of students after talking about AI
- Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too
- 'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much
- Take-Two CEO says the original Borderlands' art style overhaul cost a year of dev time and $50 million: 'Had we not done that, Borderlands wouldn't have been a hit'
May 17
- Nintendo 64 emulator just implemented rollback netcode for the entire library: 'It was honestly not that hard'
- Terraria devs reveal the game's average playtime on PC is over 100 hours as it passes 70 million copies sold
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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?'
- 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'
- '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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- Konami belatedly realises hey, we might have something here, as the first properly new Silent Hill in 13 years sells over 2 million
- 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
- 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
- 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
- '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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lip-Bu Tan says 'Intel and Nvidia are collaborating to develop exciting new products' and I'm wondering what they could possibly be
- 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'
- If you thought good gaming laptop deals were dead, these three discounted Acer machines would like to have a word
- 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
- 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
- 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
May 11
- 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
- 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
- You're not paranoid—KCD2's devs gave Henry photo mode voicelines just to stop you abusing it for stealth runs
- 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
- 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
- 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'
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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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'
- 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'
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- People are shaming a Redditor for not emptying their 300 GB recycle bin and I realised mine is just as bad
- Customizable SCUF Reflex controllers – now $50 off
- 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
- 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
- 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
- My most-anticipated but frequently delayed Zelda-like is finally releasing later this month after 6 years in development
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 6 months after Windows 10 was put to pasture, over a quarter of Steam users are still on the dying OS
- 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
- Warcraft 3 Legacy is finally back on Battle.net
- 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
- There's a game coming out this year where you fight your Steam backlog, and it's more dangerous the more you've spent
- 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
- 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
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
- Hit cowboy co-op shooter's servers are struggling, developer says its service provider 'is currently drinking mojitos instead of helping'
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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'