Games

If Ace Combat's too pricey, this excellent indie alternative is on sale for just $12.50

Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes Grand Theft Auto 6 will 'blaze a trail' to higher game prices

Grand Theft Auto 5 is a game about shapeshifting now. I don't make the rules

Gears of War: E-Day system requirements require ray tracing-capable graphics card to play, alongside 115 GB of free space on an SSD

I have saved GTA 5 from death and also added tornadoes

Big Walk Elden Ring mod is real

My GTA 5 install has a death wish but I have soothed it with flossing

Do you guys like videogames

I have broken GTA 5 by installing so many mods that the game only launches in windowed mode now

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reigns, Card Shark studio Nerial is closing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sound the 'This week's free Epic Games Store game is worth logging in for' alarm

Making our favorite FPS modes 1v1 to decide the greatest of them all

Wardogs boss talks balance, XP, and why 'the endgame is sh*t' right now

How every major character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment would fare if they had to survive the plot of Halo 1

Bodied

Kibble & Locust Pizza

I did the math on my Wardogs XP grind, and now I wish I hadn't

What insiders say Halo Studios was up to before losing Halo: 'The next Halo game was years away'

Looks like Bungie wants to make runners fight a Gundam

Riot's absurd expectations of player counts 'in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions' doomed 2XKO from the start

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

There's something even scarier than Huggy Wuggy in the Playtime toy factory this weekend

Resident Evil's executive producer explains the deeper meaning behind Requiem, and I just can't get on board

Bryan from the Resident Evil movie has been modded into Resident Evil 2

Peaches revives her breakthrough hit song for Hellraiser: Revival

To celebrate September 30, the day the cop inside of Leon Kennedy died, here's my most traumatic encounters in Resident Evil

Konami has a Silent Hill lore bible and no, you can't see it

This ambitious Half-Life 2 mod asks: what if Iron Lung had a submarine and an airship?

How to open the auxiliary lines in Part 6 of Silent Hill: Townfall

Could the PC Gamer team survive Silent Hill: Townfall?

Live from Nivalis Nights: A nightly photo journal of my cyberpunk noodle bar

Agony! Two life sims I really want to play launched back to back

Dragon Shelter has dragons on trampolines, animals on playground equipment trend

14 days in Dragon Shelter: A play by play of my first season in the Stardew-style farm sim where dragons help bake pies

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

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG… oh, Final Fantasy 11, that's new

World of Warcraft: Forever survey pitches new classes to players, including Bard, Witch, and more

This neat WoW AddOn lets you jot down notes about kind strangers

Stop trying to make a console war out of which WoW is better, you're all exhausting

World of Warcraft: Forever dev teases new 'mega dungeon' to get lost in for hours like the good ol' days

World of Warcraft: Forever players find black market NPC who sells a 15-day movement speed buff and other rare items that nobody can afford yet

I'm sure whoever chose to charge for WoW: Forever beta access is feeling very chuffed, given Blizzard's had to expand its server size a second time

I'm loving WoW: Forever, but I can't help but miss the music of my other beloved MMO

The Elder Scrolls Online's devs are pushing through hard times after layoffs and delays: 'We didn't want to rush to just hit a date'

Deadlock's got a scary troll

I want to hang out in Deadlock's New York so bad, man

Valve says Deadlock is still too unfinished to release publicly, but has hero cosmetics and new game modes in the works

Holy hell—Deadlock's new map looks absolutely beautiful

Which Deadlock hero are you voting for first?

You're hyped for Deadlock's new heroes and map updates, I'm hyped because of the 800 extra pre-match conversations, we are not the same

Deadlock's gigantic new update gives its city a spooky new coat of paint and debuts 6 new heroes, including the one and only Rat King

The eyes of Valve's creepy portrait are glowing again

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

Talos Principle 2 is $3

$30 extra for early access?

More weird asymmetrical co-op moments

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

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

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

'Open world fatigue' is one reason indie RPG Entropy is borrowing from the classics: 'PS1, PS2, GameCube games really never outstayed their welcome'

How to conquer Kuttenberg

More than 450 Witcher 3 mods have already been updated to support the Remastered version

'We needed a potentially infinite resource of party members so that we could then kill them:' Entropy dev James Wragg explains how you fit permadeath in a party RPG

Great news, cowards: The Witcher 3's most yellow-bellied mod works with the remaster

We're probably not getting a new Fallout game until well into the 2030s, but that's no reason to stop talking about them

No Law might be the open-world Deus Ex that Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't

Diablo 5 director promises Diablo 2-style combat where 'the right build' matters more than Diablo 4's action-heavy approach

I'm starting my Baldur's Gate 3 Dark Urge run (again)

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

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

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