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Capcom quietly updates the Monster Hunter Wilds beta listing on Steam, indicating a possible expansion playtest

I installed a GTA 5 mod that makes it rain human beings, and no I don't know why either

Grand Theft Auto 6 is 'the most pre-ordered' game of all time on both Xbox and PlayStation

I feel better than ever waiting for GTA 6 on PC now Rockstar confirms it's targeting 30 fps on PlayStation and Xbox

Rockstar is putting on a last-minute live music festival featuring Travis Scott and Cardi B to celebrate GTA 6's launch

I have converted GTA 5 to its final form: A GTA 6 countdown app

Every GTA 6 song and radio station confirmed so far

'The experiences on console and PC tend to be roughly the same,' says Take-Two CEO in response to question about GTA roleplaying

The confirmed GTA 6 cars, bikes, and other vehicles destined for the Vice City fast lanes

2 of my favorite studios are teaming up for their first-ever showcase this week, and have a Steam sale going right now

Yacht Club confirms Mina the Hollower was the shot in the arm it needed stay alive—'for now'

A Daedalic adventure classic is free on GOG

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

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

Critical Role's upcoming series with Hololive gave Matt Mercer 'a deeper understanding and appreciation' for vtubers

The HeroQuest board game is coming to Steam with a quest editor and multiplayer

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

I've found 12 deals on board games you'll actually want to play this Prime Day, which means you can start an argument with your loved ones from just $16

After 500 hours in Monster Train 2, its final faction of bondage angels is teaching me new ways to win

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

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

Bungie drops gameplay trailer for Marathon's 'co-op PvE roguelite' mode and swanky new social space

Note to self: If playing Call of Duty in an airport, don't say words like 'bomb' lest you want to evacuate an entire plane

Fallout and Elder Scrolls actor Stephen Russell returns as Garrett in Thief: The Tarnished Mirror: 'Great to be back with the old guy'

'I think we'd accidentally created the most hardcore extraction game of all time:' EVE Vanguard is taking hard-won playtest lessons into a '24/7 Alpha'

As Wardogs Season 3 looms, Bulkhead claims to have built 'one of the world's most sophisticated anti-cheat systems', assisted by 'machine learning and AI'

'It came out of nowhere. I was shocked and sad': He was the face of Hunt: Showdown for years, then Crytek laid him off

New Blood CEO would rather shut down the boomer shooter studio than sell out: 'In 20 years, we're done. I'm gonna say goodbye, shut it down'

Crowning the greatest FPS mode of all time through 1v1 combat—SEMIFINALS!

The Overwatch devs hear your complaints about skin distribution but concede that some cosmetics need to 'support the actual bottom-line business'

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

How Silent Hill: Townfall's developer created a fictional town that's still real—'It exists. It's there'

Phasmophobia raises over $200,000 for charity in the annual Ghost Hunts for Hearts collaboration with the American Heart Association

Dead by Daylight apologises to fans after gifting DLC to TheBurntPeanut and has since 'removed the content that was granted'

After almost a decade of work, Alien: Isolation mod tools hit 1.0 with support for 'full custom maps, missions, modes, characters, weapons, animations, sounds, models, textures, and more'

The votes are in, and PC Gamer readers have picked the scariest game on PC

'Are we going too far with this?': One of the worst scenes in Outlast had its devs debating whether to add it to the game or not

Red Barrels' co-founder is just as confused as we are as to why no one's tried to replicate Outlast's success: 'Honestly, I don't know'

'We act as if Halloween is ours': The best way to spend spooky season is within The Outlast Trials' Sinyala Facility

Which is scarier, Amnesia: The Dark Descent or Alien: Isolation? Vote now!

Petit Planet: All the key details on HoYo's Animal Crossing-like life sim

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

WoW: Forever to add extra gold to high-level quests, since it turns out you don't get extra cash at 60

I'm so glad I'm not using a questing addon in World of Warcraft: Forever

World of Warcraft: Forever bumps dungeon XP from monsters by 50% after some community feedback I will diplomatically call passionate

EVE Online's new expansion looks to make it simpler than ever to get into a huge space battle: 'Every 10 weeks or so, you're gonna know: I can roll up with whatever I have and go shoot some structures and have a big fight'

WoW: Forever is more than just a millennial retirement home

After seeing them myself, I'm convinced WoW: Forever's RP servers don't need to be this separate, and I say that as a decorated veteran of MMO roleplay

WoW: Forever takes 250,000 GB of memory to run, and I can't even joke about Sam Altman being jealous because that's almost nothing compared to the monolithic demands of AI

WoW: Forever is working on its server tech to make cities less empty, say devs

After all the queuing drama in beta, WoW: Forever's launch was buttery smooth

My apologies Deadlock, I wasn't familiar with your (musical) game

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

Big Walk developer reveals it used generative AI 'sparingly', estimates 'well under 0.1%' was actually coded using LLMs

Chess is immediately more fun if you jettison most of the rules and replace them with weapons-grade Game Boy Advance

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

One Elder Scrolls fan is reviving and upgrading (with AI) a lost spin-off for the Nokia N-Gage and porting it to PC

Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader follow-up Dark Heresy will launch at the end of January

Great news! Nier: Automata's install size is no longer 7x bigger than it should be (it was 366 GB)

Skyrim lead designer gives the most succinct summary of Bethesda's design I've ever heard: 'You're not playing my game, I'm making your game'

Lead designer Bruce Nesmith says Skyrim was a hit because it was built on institutional knowledge from Oblivion

Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith loved that Baldur's Gate 3 closed off story paths based on your decisions, but defends Bethesda's approach: 'They were both fun, they're just fun in different ways'

This massive mod essentially turns Skyrim into a persistent MMO 'where player actions create lasting consequences'

Path of Exile 2's game director thinks a death recap will finally allow us players to complain about the right things

One of the buggiest D&D games ever released, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, is back and actually playable again

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

Tempest Rising has just launched an expansion that lets you play as the bad guys