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Final Fantasy 14's latest patch has me hopeful for the MMO's story again—even though Square Enix still has a lot of good will to recover
TRAIN-ING ARC 7.4 is a sign of good things to come.
According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we'd like to admit
REPLAY Our scores, tallied up.
Brennan's latest trick on Critical Role is actually one he's done before—breaking with D&D tradition to let players choose when they level up, instead of just after they've taken a really good nap
News "A fun little way to keep things spicy."
WoW devs plan to 'whitelist' spells for use in combat mods and addons, and while it looks like Blizzard's going soft, I'm not sure that's the whole picture
News Pooling resources.
Despite being banned from Steam and Epic, horror game Horses sells 18,000 copies—and while that's enough to pay loans and royalties, it's not enough for a new game
News While future sales could change that, "reuniting everyone will not be easy."
Swen Vincke says the price of RAM and SSDs means Larian will be doing lots of optimisation in Divinity's early access 'that we didn't necessarily want to do at that point in time'
News Maybe that big flesh pillar's the result of trying to download more?
Hades 2 is 'just more Hades', and you know what—good, more for me, I never liked my co-workers anyway (I say, coping through my teeth)
🏆 Oh what, we're all too good for two cakes now?
Steam's 2025 Replay reveals we all once again spent around 14% of our time on games released in the same year—which apparently shakes out to a median of 0.56 new games
News Er.
PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025
The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.
Astarion actor Neil Newbon doesn't get why games like Arc Raiders using 'dull as hell' AI for voice work don't 'go back and actually redo the lines with actors' once they make it big
News "That's an option; I'm just saying."
The best Baldur's Gate 3 mods
MODS Buff yourself up for a lone wolf run, or if that's not your style, maybe buff up your party with eight characters? Mods make many things possible.
Hades 2 lead says they didn't nerf the game's most popular boons, but rather found 'new homes' for them during early access development
News Movin' boons.
Confession time: How long do you stick it out before you abandon a terrible MMO dungeon/raid group?
LEAVE GROUP If it sucks, do you hit da bricks?
Why I love player housing in MMOs
SWEET HOME A little slice of ownership in a massively multiplayer world.
Divinity's trailer is cool, but I suspect Larian's body-horror Burning Man splatfest doesn't set an accurate tone for the full game—and if I'm right, it'll be weird that it's happened twice
BODY ODY EW-Y Hey, cinematic designers—you guys okay?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers are so thankful for the awards, they dropped a big stonking DLC for free that you can go play right now, with some clutch quality-of-life updates, too
News C'est généreux!
New Magic: The Gathering infinite combo is just making The Hulk step on caltrops over and over until he's mad enough to win
News Honestly, a reasonable crashout.
Blizzard sees players levitating their homes in WoW's player housing, 'even though there weren’t UI controls for that', decides it's now a feature, not a bug
News Also, the exterior decor limit will be increased.
Square Enix hit with a brutal 100-slide presentation from one of its shareholders about alleged mismanagement, other shareholders asked to pitch in with 'frank views'
News Ouch.
World of Warcraft players are already discovering new tech with its player housing—turns out, you can sit anywhere as long as you're able to fit a chair inside
News No, I don't need to rephrase that headline. You're wrong, actually.
Baldur's Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler's alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money
News Yapper's Gate.
I've been roleplaying in MMORPGs like WoW for 16 years, it's the reason I'm here writing this headline—and there's never been a better time to try it out yourself
PEOPLE PRACTICE Go be cringe in World of Warcraft, it's good for the soul.
WoW's new player housing feature's been out in early access for less than a week, and players have already made battleships, dollhouses, and large hadron colliders
News Light be, what is happening in there?!
