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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'

Mina the Hollower review: Brutal battles and freeform exploration make for a grim, gripping adventure

Neverness to Everness banners: next, current, and gacha explained

007 First Light release date and launch times

All active Blox Fruits codes in May 2026 and how to redeem them

007 First Light review roundup: 'The best James Bond game since GoldenEye'

Take-Two forces shutdown of Grand Theft Auto multiplayer modding platform Rage:MP

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?

The new game from the makers of Botanicula and Chuchel is like 1984 meets the Keystone Kops, but in a way that actually works

Peak's success helped Aggro Crab commit to co-op, says studio head: 'We thought we were a character action studio'

Peak boss doesn't mind us calling it friendslop: 'Why not make a game where the point is to hang out with your friends?'

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 Broken Sword movie is in the works, aiming to move the adventure game classics into 'the next medium it deserves'

Claims that Mixtape will be delisted over music licenses are 'a lie,' says publisher

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

'We're doing something a bit more interesting': All Will Rise dev says its progressive deck-builder shouldn't be dumped in the 'woke, liberal bucket'

Mixtape is at the center of another tedious culture war discourse, and I think I know why

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

After layoffs, Fortnite's future is shakier than it has ever been

Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers 'pick up the pieces' after massive layoffs: 'We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond'

Fortnite's new Peak skin costs almost 3 times as much as the indie game it's based on: 'That's actually a slap in the face to the Peak developers'

The best birding board game on PC is getting a sequel about dragons, which are like cooler birds

All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for May 2026

I can't believe a tabletop RPG based on Ubisoft's The Division has proved to be so popular

XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop

The Slay the Spire board game is getting an expansion based on one of the PC game's most popular mods

Actual-play series Dimension 20 is partnering with White Wolf for a Vampire: The Masquerade show

Games Workshop just announced a book of 'insightful ork quotes' called Words of Waaagh

Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop's AI ban, says 'it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort'

My next love after D&D, Pathfinder 2e, has a Fanatical bundle selling over $450's worth of books for around $15

It's time for Garfield's official Magic: The Gathering crossover now

Magic: The Gathering's next wizard university set feels like going back to school, because we sure are going to have to learn a lot of mechanics

Slay the Spire 2 dev rejects the concept of deadlines: 'I don't want Sloppy Spire 2'

Dwarf Fortress is coming to Magic: The Gathering and I'm beginning to suspect Wizards of the Coast is targeting me, specifically

Thank goodness Magic: The Gathering isn't doing a Harry Potter crossover set

Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch

Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'

Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'

What will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit

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

I know all you pirates are busy with Windrose, but you should drop anchor and check out this new pirate-themed city builder

After his city builder flopped in early access, Firewatch's Nels Anderson didn't give up: 'Smarter people than me … probably would've pulled the plug'

This 'highly realistic' city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade

If you think the citizens in city builders are grumpy and needy, try pleasing a bunch of jealous Roman gods

Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now

You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years

Cities: Skylines 2's new developer celebrates the occasion with a debut patch all about death, making citizens pop their clogs around the clock and removing immortality in easy mode: 'Previously, about 80% of them never died of old age'

'This world means so much to us': Overwatch's game director celebrates its 10 year anniversary by mapping out how it all began

Destiny 2 players are processing their grief by posting their most embarrassing self-owns, and I've never felt more seen

One of the first games made in the Build Engine is about to be delisted

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'

Our readers are clear: They want Destiny 3, which is awkward, because Bungie reportedly isn't making Destiny 3

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

Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes

Former Tekken boss completes his 30-year career with a pilgrimage to the fighting game's holy land: Waffle House

PC gaming's very own indie-themed Smash Bros. just added the guy from Spelunky, who I now know is named Guy Spelunky

Marvel once caused a problem for Capcom by insisting 'Juggernaut can't jump'

After 9 years and 2 new Mortal Kombats, it looks like NetherRealm is finally making Injustice 3

Invincible Vs may pack a punch for fans of the show, but I wish it had more going on outside its tight versus mode

Tekken players have spent years asking for FF7's Tifa only for rumours to suggest she's been poached by the biggest competition

Street Fighter 6 somehow patched its incest storyline to make it even shadier than it originally was

Fighting game YouTuber offers $10,000 bounty for upgraded netcode in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'

Resident Evil Requiem has a demo now, despite the fact it came out 3 months ago and sold over 7 million copies

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

'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

I can't wait to get murdered by flowers in this rad-looking survival horror game

Zach Cregger's inspiration for the upcoming Resident Evil film once again proves he knows ball

Dead By Daylight codes for May 2026

Directive 8020's new Turning Points system transforms it from a simple sci-fi survival horror into a compelling, gory puzzle

The story trailer for Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy, an upcoming survival horror game, reveals more of the twisted location and odd inhabitants

The 'numbers just aren't there,' Dead Space producer says, and that's why we'll probably never see Dead Space 4

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

How to try for a baby in Paralives and get pregnant

Paralives has done the one exact thing I was begging life sims for

9 cool things about Paralives you won't find in The Sims

Is Paralives worth playing in early access for life sim fans?

Paralives money cheats: Every cheat code you need for easy paradimes

Paralives cheats: Every cheat code your parafolks need for living the easy life or causing a little chaos

Paralives launch times and release date

After outliving 6 Star Trek TV shows, Star Trek Online deserves more love

MMOs don't need 'to be 200 hours of unique content' at launch, says industry vet

'People want MMOs', says veteran designer Jack Emmert, it's the publishers chasing WoW-level scope that are the problem

Great moments in PC gaming: Stealing and selling someone else's treasure in Sea of Thieves

PC Gamer's MMO readers are, according to you, fashion-forward healers who like your keybinds, and I couldn't be more proud

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

Final Fantasy 11 expected a 'sharp player decline' once the hype from the FF14 crossover and welcome back campaigns ended, but that never came

Ancient MMO Final Fantasy 11 still has new things on the horizon 24 years after launch

MMOs are better if classes are imbalanced—you just need to do it on purpose

Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve's still experimenting

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'

Deadlock's latest 'small update' yet again remixes basic mechanics and rebalances most of the roster

Another live service game is dead just a few months after launch

Why I love Deadlock's map, which has brought me back to the world of MOBAs long after I swore I'd quit

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

How OpenAI tore apart a team of Dota 2 pros

I just watched someone try to explain Deadlock to Joe Rogan for 6 minutes, and surprisingly, they kinda nailed it

Deadlock's latest update brings some huge movement buffs like jumping mid slide and 30% increased air control—it's a lot cooler than it sounds

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'

Why play Wordle when you could be playing this new word puzzle game that rewards you with frogs?

If you enjoy A Little to the Left then The Sorting Bureau should be the next game you check out

The Talos Principle 3 promises an 'epic grand finale' to the tale of humanity's rebirth

Wordle is becoming a primetime TV quiz show, because the ultimate five-letter word is 'money'

Friendslop approaches total cultural victory as co-op hit Gamble With Your Friends sells 1 million copies in one week

Riven co-creator defends his use of AI art: 'Any artist can take a brush and, without thinking, an artist can create slop'

2 hours with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight was an uncomplicated burst of joy

Games like Wordle: Here's 15 more daily word games to satisfy your puzzle cravings

Next and current banners in Genshin Impact

CD Projekt Red confirms it's working on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion after accidentally leaking it on its own storefront

Crimson Desert's latest patch adds 20 new types of small animal and then hands Kliff a shotgun

A 23-year-old D&D CRPG just got patched to add achievements and fix a bug that stopped you from earning XP

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

I'll never love another RPG like I loved Neverwinter Nights

Next and current banners in Wuthering Waves

Next and current banners in Honkai: Star Rail

Dawn of War 2 review (2009)

Demigod review: 'A fantastically imaginative gameworld of gods, dinosaurs and giants'

More than 10 years after Ubisoft took it down, one of our favorite games of 2010 is back on Steam

Get the Homeworld Remastered Collection, Deserts of Kharak, and 8 more RTS games for just $8

Stormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched last summer, is losing online multiplayer support because its server partner was bought by an AI company

Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition gets yet another massive update adding a new line of warships and 'significant changes' to naval mechanics

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign

Dawn of War 4's combat director goes even further than the original game's sync-kill animations: 'I don't think any RTS has really done anything like this in the past'