Games

I put UFO sightings in Grand Theft Auto 5, though it didn't quite go to plan

I modded Crazy Taxi into Grand Theft Auto 5

Why Blizzard vet Rob Pardo is going all-in on Arkheron, the PvP dungeon crawler that's like dark-fantasy Backrooms: 'It's very much been an odyssey'

Wolverine blinking is upsetting me

Rockstar asks modders to please take its games very seriously

GTA 5 has true air travel now thanks to the mod I just installed, but they won't let me give me my pals piggybacks onto the plane

Oh good, the pervert's back

Elden Ring Nightreign is dead, but modders are dabbing on its corpse, with one porting an entire Dark Souls 2 DLC zone as a playable map

Take to the skies and shoot your mates in the face with a shotgun in Fish & Ships

Beyond Good and Evil was never worth 20 years of angst

Young Suns is an optimistic life sim for an unoptimistic time coming in November, and I'm already forming intense opinions about its cast of NPCs

It's just you and your van in this upcoming open-world scavenging game

I played the adventure game so scandalous that it was physically destroyed by UK customs

Beneath a Steel Sky review (1994)

Age Twisters is a simple yet charming spin on the co-op adventure that aims to feel like watching a Pixar movie

'I would love that but we're cheap and poor': Jeff Kaplan speeds through everything players should know about his upcoming cowboy survival game, The Legend of California

The new Rusty Lake game is a grim, sinister tale of family, destiny, and cooking: I fed a man porridge filled with dead bugs and he told me it tasted good

Thimbleweed Park 2 is happening because Ron Gilbert's friend knows a rich guy who's a big fan of the original and wanted more

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

Fortnite Showdown: Rivalries explained, map secrets, mythic weapon locations and more

Fortnite teases its next collab with Toy Story, but while fans are wondering where Woody is all I want to know is whether we'll be able to play as the aliens

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

Down with tactical rocks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following its excellent Lord of the Rings cards, Magic: The Gathering's new Hobbit set is a bit of a second breakfast

The Pokémon Company is turning to facial recognition scans to help combat scalpers

Stardew Valley comes to Magic: The Gathering and fans aren't taking some of the new artwork well

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

Quake Champions takes a shower, shedding all its 2017 live-service grime and becoming a $10 game

Halo needed to change, but Activision faces a huge challenge to fix it

Shoot the tires, please

Valve offers CS2 players eggs

Valve shadow dropped chicken pets into CS2

Bungie unvaulting Destiny 2 content was a studio-saving emergency decision, because Marathon updates were never going to be enough

'All roads lead back to Arma'

Beautiful Freaks of the Desert is a speedrunning FPS flipping the middle finger at all things data center

I urge you to check out this hidden object game where you play as the world's most helpful sniper

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

I suck at fighting games, but Marvel Tōkon has the sauce

The producer behind Cregger's Resident Evil film is working on an unnamed Silent Hill project and players are asking for just one thing

The scariest part of Silent Hill: Townfall? It's not the monsters—it's British interior design

Zach Cregger explains which two movies inspired his Resident Evil film: 'Like if those movies loved each other very much'

Ranking Resident Evil villains based on whether I think I could change them

Resident Evil is the best videogame movie because Bryan sucks

All active Dandy's World codes in September 2026 and how to redeem them in Roblox

Silent Hill: Townfall review - A nostalgic new entry

The new game from Lorn's Lure's developer is also set in the creepy world, and this one's a horror flight sim

Dust till Dawn is a horror-themed clean-'em-up with music from Silent Hill's composer

Inzoi's director says he is 'very much focused on our core goals' as he announces a multiplayer roleplaying mode designed to be like Ready Player One

Dave the Diver has now sold more than 10 million copies, Mintrocket 'can't wait to share our future plans'

Petit Planet's delightfully cosy galactic take on Animal Crossing is the closest we'll ever get to the life sim on PC

Haunted Chocolatier's development has been 'very productive' in recent months, Eric Barone says: 'Working on Haunted Chocolatier is what I’m most eager and driven to do'

Fields of Mistria review: The best farm sim of the past Stardew-chasing decade

Absolutely everything you need to know about romance and marriage in Fields of Mistria

Fields of Mistria's cast has me head over heels in a way no farm sim has since Stardew Valley

Juniper romance walkthrough: The full Juniper gifts list, heart events, and marriage details for the arrogant witch in Fields of Mistria

March romance walkthrough: The full March gifts list, heart events, and marriage details for the grumpy blacksmith in Fields of Mistria

WoW: Forever has a secret snake druid form

My first MMO character #3: Steve Haines

World of Warcraft: Forever's first patch will bring back the number one thing seasoned players missed from the MMO's past: storms

World of Warcraft: Forever dev addresses the debate over who it's made for: 'I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players'

Sometimes it's fun to hit a scorpion with a club for 38 seconds

My first MMO character #1: Harvey Randall

A tribute to PC Gamer's first MMO characters—may they never be forgotten

I have fallen to my own hubris

World of Warcraft: Forever players find rule-breaking new items that defy 22 years of experience with the classic MMO

Heroes of the Storm gets first new hero after supposed death and 6 year wait

In a sea of failed live service games, I'm shocked to see someone trying to make a MOBA

Valve assures Deadlock players hungry for its next big update that it will notify them, 'or order a ton of pizza', when it's ready

League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals

Deadlock's new ranked mode is driving players mad as they try to escape the casual modes and climb back to where they were

Valve finally gives Deadlock a proper ranked mode, warns that matches will be 'very rocky' to start

Faker becomes an honorary Korean police officer to help discourage online gambling

Riot quickly backpedals on paid old-school skins in League of Legends Classic after backlash

League of Legends' 'classic' mode has a release date, and it isn't just an old version of the game—players will vote on new patches, Old School RuneScape-style

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

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

The latest co-op indie game to take over the internet is like one of my favourite board games, just with bombs

My favourite soundtrack of 2026 so far is tucked in one of this year's biggest sleeper hits

This free lockpicking puzzler you can play in your browser is unexpectedly one of the most thrilling games I've encountered this year

AI is 'just a plagiarism machine that makes people lose their jobs' in the eyes of The Talos Principle 3's writers

Big Walk is a new co-op puzzle game classic

This spy game is a dream come true if you love spending time in character creators

Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'

Rogue Trader is coming to an end with miracles, madness and 'tears of blood'

The Industrial Revolution is the reason RPGs have area-of-effect spells: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™

Diablo 5 will 'take a somewhat different approach' to Diablo 4's monster level scaling so your character feels noticeably stronger as you progress

What's your 'back on my bullshit' videogame?

This guy just sold me on his game with the health bar alone

Nighthawks review: A novel vampire RPG that's also a vampire novel's worth of great writing

All active Aniimo codes for launch, September 2026

Paper co-op deckbuilder Hellcard 2 has a new demo that you can play right now

Yet another Pokémon-inspired game is popping off on Steam, with over 160,000 concurrent players for Aniimo

Stronghold 4 boasts castles aplenty and a rogue's gallery of weirdos to pit them against

Warcraft 3: Reforged adds always-online requirement, removes LAN mode

Discussing 20 years of Company of Heroes with the team carrying its torch into the future

Why is Blizzard still announcing games years ahead of release? 'We want to convey confidence in some of our biggest bets coming forward'

Playing RTS with a controller? Total War: Warhammer 40,000 dev says it 'really does work' in their game: 'I think we've landed in a really solid spot'

Blizzard just dropped a new Warcraft 3 campaign, the first in 23 years

Brütal Legend is available free in honor of Tim Curry

That Game of Thrones RTS is still coming, still very HBO, but no longer due out this year

The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action