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Looks like 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti are fast approaching, so *please* can we have some affordable graphics cards for a change
You know, cards that actually stay near MSRP. It's that time of the GPU season where we patiently await affordable graphics cards after the initial...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Creative Assembly is testing a second round of AI improvements for Total War: Warhammer 3: 'We heard you loud and clear'
After that, sieges will finally get a look-in. Changes to the campaign AI of Creative Assembly's border-gore simulator Total War: Warhammer 3 were the...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Former Blizzard president says 'I'm not sure where Diablo is going' after Diablo 4 roadmap disappoints: 'Don't ship to check a box'
Poorly season'd. Blizzard's loved a good roadmap, lately—and, as an occasional WoW player, it's mostly been reaping the rewards of them. But things...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, 'But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3'
Thus, Nightdive was born. Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year's Game Developers...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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OK this is too far: Someone brought an actual chicken to A Minecraft Movie
The cult of chicken jockey has escalated its ritual ceremonies. A Minecraft Movie had a great opening weekend in terms of box office numbers, but...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Black Mirror Season 7 review
Black Mirror Season 7 has arrived from the all-too-near future, bringing with it the familiar combination of tech-based horror, cautionary tales, and...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre
My hands-on reveals a return to Amplitude doing what it does best. Coral, coral, coral, as far as my mechanical eyes can see. I didn't...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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REPO: how many players can join
Who's brave enough to face the horror? REPO is only getting more popular, so if your friends have been badgering you to play you might...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Balatro's creator has reached poker zen after beating every deck on every difficulty: 'All this time playing has killed any negative emotions I had toward it'
I have no enemies. Balatro's creator has no enemies—in fact, he has no negative feelings at all. He has spent so much time plugged...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Big Rigs, a strong contender for any 'worst games of all time ' list, currently has a Mostly Positive user rating on Steam because democracy is broken
See, this is why you need professional reviews. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was misnamed. It should have been called Big Rigs: Through the...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Balatro scoops a BAFTA and Jimbo weirds it up on-stage: 'LocalThunk is really rich now… he has shoes made of gold and he thanks you for making him that way'
Also: play Animal Well. Last night's BAFTA Gaming Awards saw a range of gongs awarded to some of 2024's standout titles, with the big winners...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Xbox Games Showcase returns in June with first-party studios, third-party partners, and a deep dive into The Outer Worlds 2
Microsoft is bringing back the double-feature format for its 2025 online event. The Xbox Games Showcase is returning in June with a look at new games...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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How to complete the Blooming and Blossoming quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
If friends were flowers. As you make your way through the Eggstravaganza event in Disney Dreamlight Valley, you'll eventually have to face the Blooming...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Every single Oddworld game is available right now for a single, solitary dollar
Dozens of hours worth of dystopian puzzle solving awaits. I am prepared to break my own rules and impulse buy the Oddworld bundle that has...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Black Mirror Season 7 has an episode about a sim game where you take care of cute little creatures, and here's the twist: it's a real game you can play right now
Gosh, they sure are cute. There's definitely no dark side to this. Black Mirror Season 7 has begun streaming on Netflix, and one of its episodes,...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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TSMC might have to fork over $ 1 billion to the US for allegedly breaking export rules after one of its chips was found in a Huawei processor
$ 1 billion here, $ 1 billion there, who's counting? TSMC, the world's biggest chip maker, could potentially be on the hook for $ 1 billion or more...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 10
Help with today's Wordle if you need it. There's a clue for today's Wordle just a little further down this page, all freshly written up...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Marvel Rivals is launching an 'experimental feature' to help players deal with the game's awful performance and insatiable appetite for RAM
I love Marvel Rivals, but it's optimised like a dog. The worst part of Marvel Rivals is its optimisation—loading in can take an age,...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Where and when to watch the Triple-i Initiative showcase
Over 30 indie studios are coming together for a showcase of announcements again this year. Back again after its debut year, the 2025 Triple-i...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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The Last of Us is coming back for a third season on HBO
Season two isn't out for a few more days, but HBO is clearly confident that fans are going to want more. The Last of Us...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Major Japanese studios and publishers were having a great time in 2025, right up until the weekend because of the (you guessed it) 'insultingly dumb' US tariffs
It's not a good Monday for anybody, Japan included. In an industry already tanking a bunch of hits, full of layoffs and studio closures, the...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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AMD muddies the laptop CPU waters again with a Zen 4 refresh. So, where are our actual next-gen Zen 5 chips?
Pretty much identical to previous-gen, but should pair nicely with high-end RTX 50-series GPUs. Now that the next-gen graphics cards have made their...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Some lucky Redditors are getting 50-series cards below MSRP thanks to a weird Walmart quirk
Aren't you glad I didn't say 'one weird trick'? Seems like only a few weeks back we were grumbling about the price of Nvidia RTX 5070...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Valve Deckard, a long-rumoured standalone VR headset, might not be too far off if these leaked shipping manifests are legit
A standalone HMD from Valve might be just what the VR market needs. There've certainly been a lot of Valve Deckard rumours over the last...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Still Wakes the Deep provided the best performance in a videogame in 2024, so I'm happy that it's finally been shown some love at the Bafta Game Awards
The praise it deserves. The best part of Still Wakes the Deep, without a doubt, was the acting. Every member of the cast gave outstanding...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Multibillion- dollar MMO Dungeon Fighter Online is huge in Asia but 'not as well known in the West,' and The First Berserker: Khazan was meant to change that
At GDC 2025, lead actor Ben Starr and the CEO of Neople talk about elevating the "niche" online RPG franchise with a new origin story. 2D...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Alleged Steam Deck Prototype goes up on eBay for almost $ 3,000
Wilder still, it looks like someone has already bought it. I love eBay. Whether I'm on the hunt for an elusive anime figure that I...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Blue Prince dartboard puzzle: how it works and how to solve it
The billiards room in Blue Prince has a mathematical dartboard puzzle that gets a bit harder every time you complete it. As you explore the...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Nobody told me that Old School RuneScape was home to a perfect time capsule of mid 2000s cybersecurity
The Stronghold of Security was not what I thought it was going to be. Despite being someone who had never touched RuneScape outside of a...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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'It's the end of an era': Four years after saying the studio would keep its 'identity,' CD Projekt has fully absorbed The Molasses Flood, but it's still working on The Witcher spinoff Project Sirius
The Molasses Flood has been working on Project Sirius for years, and there's still nothing to show for it Less than four years after being...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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This Ryzen 7 9700X, GeForce RTX 5070 gaming PC is the cheapest I've seen this week, which might not stay that way for long
PC prices are probably going to be rough while the tariff situation sorts itself out. AVGPC Whirlwind | RTX 5070 | Ryzen 7 9700X | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 1...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Schedule 1 is the kind of instant Steam hit that was only ever going to come from a complete rando
The corporate mind cannot comprehend Schedule 1. More than two weeks after launch, Schedule 1 is still the top-selling paid Steam game. That means...
pcgamer.com - 2 days ago
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Razer has pulled the pricing and pre-order pages for its new Blade laptops and I think it's pretty obvious what's happening here
Razer's taken down laptop pricing, new tariffs will make tech pricing higher, 2+2=4. There have been multiple reports going around about Razer pausing...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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At last: Monster Hunter Wilds is willing to kick my ass
Title Update 1 gives Wilds the teeth I was waiting for. It happened as it always does: A new Monster Hunter released, veteran hunters complained it...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Battle royale interest is shrinking but Fortnite has a larger slice of the pie than ever, according to new industry report
Folks aren't playing battle royales as much as they used to. According to a new report from game industry research firm Newzoo, interest in the...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Blue Prince is currently the best-reviewed game of 2025
You couldn't have drafted a better outcome. In our Blue Prince review, Chris Livingston called the run-based room drafter one of the best puzzle games...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military
BDS also calls for Xbox and Game Pass boycott. Last Friday, two software engineers vocally protested the use of Microsoft's AI technology by the...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Diablo 4's roadmap reveals this year our console brothers and sisters will finally get keyboard-and-mouse support
And there was much rejoicing. I don't know how anyone playing with a controller puts up with the inventory management that makes up so much...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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'There is no lawsuit' against Schedule I: As negative Steam reviews pile up, Drug Dealer Simulator publisher makes a public plea for peace
The Drug Dealer Simulator games are being hammered by negative reviews in response to Movie Games SA's "investigation" into Schedule I. As the...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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YouTube is conducting a 'platform-wide review' after mistakenly hitting Balatro videos with an age restriction for gambling content
"Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should not be age-restricted." YouTube is conducting a "platform-wide review" of videos and channels on its...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Oblivion console commands and cheats for infinite wealth, carry weight, and skill gains
Use these classic console commands to cheat your way through the Oblivion Crisis. Are you on the lookout for Oblivion console commands to make your...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Players are breaking the physics of Schedule 1 to escape the cops and explore the sky
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. In a game as janky as drug-dealer sim Schedule 1, you just know some players will find a way...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Best Huntress starter build in Path of Exile 2
Crossbow zons unite. The Huntress is Path of Exile 2's newest character class, a fearsome Azmeri warrior who hunts monstrous wild creatures armed with...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Corsair's new website to update firmware means I can finally say goodbye to iCUE
So long and thanks for the memories. If you aren't a fan of Corsair's iCUE or simply don't like too much software on your rig,...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Japanese railway turns to 3D printed replacements for ageing shelters that can be built in less than 6 hours
If only my local council could 3D print some efficiency I'll spare you the customary rant about the highs and lows of using the British...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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'Rocket Raccoon is now the goat healer': Marvel Rivals devs have finally caved and given Rocket Raccoon's ultimate the ability to heal
Heroes never die. Marvel Rivals Season 2 is introducing a lot of new features, including new heroes, Emma Frost and Ultron, new maps, new Team-up...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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One of the biggest games on Steam right now is Bongo Cat, a cat with a hat who smacks your Windows taskbar like a bongo drum when you type
Bongo Cat! PC Gamer editor Lauren Morton wrote in February that "desktop pets are so back," and holy cow she was not wrong. One of...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Holy smokes, something that might actually be useful is coming to Copilot on Windows
Did I just say 'holy smokes'? Forgive me for being surprised by this after the last two years of REM sleep-inducing AI updates and betas,...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Balatro creator LocalThunk is throwing his weight around to make sure Blue Prince gets some love at The Game Awards: 'Geoff my man I better see Blue Prince as a GOTY nominee'
Blue Prince is really good, and LocalThunk wants to make sure everyone knows about it. Blue Prince is exceptionally good—"one of the best puzzle...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 9
Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle. Wordle left you feeling lost in a haze of letters? We can help sort it all out. Spend...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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How to get and use Energy Crystals in REPO
Before you can recharge that new Tranq Gun, you'll need a source of power. It's easy to go without extra energy in those first few...
pcgamer.com - 3 days ago
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Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 8
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle. Polish up your daily Wordle puzzle solving with our general tips. They offer handy advice that'll...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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How to complete the Black Ops 6 Shattered Veil Easter egg
Skip the guesswork and check this full walkthrough of Black Ops 6's Shattered Veil Easter egg. Shattered Veil is the fifth round-based Zombies map in...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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La Quimera, the new shooter from former 4A Games Ukraine studio Reburn, will be out later this month
A closed beta test will be held on April 12. We won't be waiting long for La Quimera, the sci-fi shooter set in a "fictional Latin...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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I never actually looked up what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is about, and there's some bonkers RPG lore behind the title
There's a reason it's called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and whether you like that reason will depend on your patience for absurd RPG premises. Until...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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How to find and use the pawn shop in Schedule 1
Turn your old equipment into cash. Once you've hired employees to handle the day-to-day running of your drug empire in Schedule 1, you'll soon end up...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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The Netflix bump is working its magic once again, sending Devil May Cry rocketing up the Steam top sellers in a $ 20 franchise bundle
Half- devil does sell. The Netflix boost is a phenomenon so predictable that it should qualify as legitimate economic theory. It follows a simple...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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ROG Ally X, Legion Go, and now the Nintendo Switch 2 are missing one important thing: Why don't more handhelds have OLED screens?
I want my portable world to look more vibrant. James Bentley, hardware writer This week: I've been watching the Nintendo Switch 2 news with excitement...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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How a hardcore survival game morphed into an open world town-builder where you play as a corgi mech pilot
Animalkind went from hardcore to cottagecore. You wouldn't know it by looking at Animalkind, a cozy and colorful town-builder where you play as a cute...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Valkyrae cameo mysteriously cut from A Minecraft Movie after she accused Jason Momoa of 'mistreating some of the crew' last year: 'I feel like things could have been so much worse'
If the queues outside my local cinema are any indication, A Minecraft Movie is set to become some sort of 21st-century Gone With The Wind...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer, director, and the mind behind 5e's Curse of Strahd, retires after 28 years at Wizards of the Coast
End of an era. Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer (and, recently, creative director) has retired from Wizards of the Coast after 28 years...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Sabrina Carpenter has been revealed as the icon for Fortnite Festival's eighth season
Fortnite Sabrina isn't real and can't hurt you. Except she can, because she has a gun. After Hatsune Miku's reign as Fortnite Festival's icon during...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Schedule I gets Bleuballs in its first 'proper patch,' now live in Steam beta
Yes, I did this for a bit of lowbrow wordplay. The first "proper update" for everyone's favorite drug-dealing simulator Schedule I is now available in...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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How to launder money in Schedule 1
Quickly (and unethically) bank all your cash. So, you've maxed out your deposit limit and have suddenly found out you have no obvious way to...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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'It was just like fire': Jennifer Coolidge reflects on her chemistry with A Minecraft Movie's love interest, Nitwit the villager
He's a great listener, that's for sure. My favourite part of A Minecraft Movie, without a shadow of a doubt, has to be Jennifer Coolidge's...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Am I the only one wondering what's going to happen to Blade, now that he's not the new hero for Season 2?
Poor guy's just stuck in Central Park. We now know that the two new heroes arriving in Marvel Rivals for Season 2 are Emma Frost and...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Team Ninja says 'we sincerely apologize' for Rise of the Ronin's PC version being a mess, promises imminent fixes
Yet another awful PC port. The ambitious ARPG Rise of the Ronin released on Steam a few weeks ago and, from the get-go, proved to...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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'Redstone genius' Mumbo Jumbo was originally meant to make 'a bunch of crazy booby traps' for A Minecraft Movie, but they were all cut from the film
They tried all the builds out in the game beforehand. There are a few really neat references to Minecraft pop culture in A Minecraft Movie,...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Assassin's Creed Shadows' first major update arrives tomorrow with very good news for your horse
The upcoming patch will also enable players to reset their Mastery Nodes and experiment with different builds for both Naoe and Yasuke. The first...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?
A tantalizing dream that remains frustratingly out of reach. Path of Exile 2 has been a polarizing game right from the beginning. Those of us who...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Microsoft's 100% AI-generated Quake 2 made us nauseous but John Carmack, the game's OG coder, is into it: 'What? This is impressive research work!'
The research, folks, the research. Absolutely not the frame rate. I hope. Over the weekend, Microsoft released a technology demonstration from its AI...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Drug Dealer Simulator is getting review bombed for suing Schedule I, even though it hasn't actually sued Schedule I yet
The publisher of Drug Dealer Simulator confirmed it's looking into possible copyright infringement, and that's not going over well with fans of the...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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The Last of Us Part 2 proves that 8 GB of VRAM can be enough, even at 4K with maximum settings, so why aren't more games using the same clever asset-streaming trick?
Any performance issues you have in TLOU2 aren't down to a lack of GPU memory When Sony's masterpiece The Last of Us Part 1 appeared on...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Path of Exile 2's nerf-happy update has the playerbase revolting, review-bombing their baby, and scorning the developer's promises: 'Like reading a Blizzard post on fixing Diablo 4'
"I'd rather just go into work than play this game right now." Last week saw a major patch for Path of Exile 2 that made a...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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No other card game matters to me now, I only want to collect these middle-aged man cards from Japan
What a way to bring a community together. Anyone who has opened a pack of trading cards will know the thrill and excitement that goes...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Cops called as A Minecraft Movie sends kids into chicken jockey frenzies
Showers of popcorn are adding a festive touch to screenings of A Minecraft Movie. The appearance of Minecraft on the big screen has apparently...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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Shelter's developer is now making a cozy decorating game called Twinkleby
Might and Delight are doing something a bit different. Twinkleby Announcement Trailer - A cosy decoration game coming in 2025 - YouTube Watch On The...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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How to get and use Pinnacle Coins in Monster Hunter Wilds
Cash in these challenge coins for some special rewards. If you're pondering what to do with Pinnacle Coins in Monster Hunter Wilds, you've likely just...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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The turf wars begin: Schedule I is being investigated for possible copyright infringement by the publisher of Drug Dealer Simulator
Movie Games SA says it doesn't want to stop the sale of Schedule I but has a "legal obligation" to look into alleged infringement. In...
pcgamer.com - 4 days ago
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One cable to rule them all: China's 8K-ready HDMI and DisplayPort competitor supports up to 192 Gbps bandwidth and 480 W power delivery in a single connection
That's over a proprietary connector, but a slower USB Type-C variant is also planned. While 4K gaming and video content is still a stretch goal...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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How to get Zoh Shia to spawn in Monster Hunter Wilds
Farm this godlike monster for its weapons and gear. So you've defeated high rank Zoh Shia in Monster Hunter Wilds, but now you can't seem...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Arkane was 'devastated' by its cancelled Half-Life 2 Ravenholm game, but the masterclass it got from late visionary artist Viktor Antonov 'was pivotal to what would become Arkane later'
He "trained us in all of their practices". One of the most unfortunate missed shots in gaming is that of Arkane's cancelled Ravenholm game—in...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Finally, a news outlet explains the US tariffs in a way even I can understand: with a map covered in Warhammer models
Space Marines and global economic policy, together at last. As I was digging into just last week, the new US tariffs stand to have a...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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The Death Stranding movie is being written and directed by the guy behind Pig
"The Death Stranding movie is taking a direction that nobody has tried before with a movie adaptation of a game." Deadline reports that Michael...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Dawn of the Hunt is Path of Exile 2's most contentious update, but it's also the most fun I've had with ARPG necromancy, well… ever
The new Bind Spectre skill turns the action RPG into undead Pokémon. Dawn of the Hunt hasn't been the smoothest update for Path of...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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How to make Biryani in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Another dish to master. Biryani is a five-star dish in Disney Dreamlight Valley, so it's a valuable recipe to learn if you're constantly spending your...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who 'take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored'
The DLC will launch alongside a free content update, though both are still "months away." Against the Storm is one of the best city-builders of...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Preppered: an existential platformer is a game that'll make you pay not just for your choices, but your sucky platforming skills, too
Some second chances—but not enough. PEPPERED: an existential platformer TRAILER - YouTube Watch On Preppered: an existential platformer, which releases...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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So, it's the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive
That and the lasers firing at tiny flying droplets of tin... How the EUV Mirrors are Made - YouTube Watch On Profiteering, the AI boom,...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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That game jam based on Oblivion's terrible persuasion wheel actually produced some good, weird ideas
Spin the wheel to figure out what your gun does. A couple of months ago PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens bemoaned the state of this world...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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How to complete That's Not Where Eggs Come From in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Another egg-citing quest. That's Not Where Eggs Come From! is one of the four quests you'll have to complete as part of the Eggstravaganza event...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo 'inspired' by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
Not my favorite gaming experience. Before the disaster that was Stadia, Google demoed its game streaming tech via a free version of Assassin's Creed:...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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AMD RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti: This is 2025's graphics card battle royale
Which of the modern graphics cards should you be dropping into your PC? It feels like it's been a long time since we last had...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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'They chewed me up pretty good': A US plaintiff attempted to use an AI avatar to argue their court case and the judges were far from amused
Words you don't want to hear from a sitting judge: "I don’t appreciate being misled." AI has many uses—or at least that's what...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Former Awesomenauts developers finish the game they were working on when the studio went bankrupt in 2023, and it'll be free for the first 24 hours after release
Nubs!: Arena is a multiplayer brawler for up to 20 players online. Nubs!: Arena | Release Date Reveal Trailer - YouTube Watch On Awesomenauts developer...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 7, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to. Best of the best 2025 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All- time favorites...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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G.Skill's 128 GB golden RAM kit is the first high-capacity set to hit DDR5-8000 speeds and it's making me reconsider my views on PC hardware bling
I thought I was immune to the shiny stuff, but even I want a pair of these mega-sticks. I'm the sort of PC enthusiast that...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Promise Mascot Agency review
NEED TO KNOW What is it? Absurdist narrative mascot wrangler/management sim. Release Date: April 10, 2025 Developer: Kaizen Game Works Publisher: Kaizen...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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How to unlock thermite in Warzone
Turn up the heat with the new thermite lethal. Call of Duty: Warzone Season 3 adds thermite, a (kind of) new lethal equipment. If you're a...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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How to make Ghostly Fish Steak in Disney Dreamlight Valley
A spooky dish for all year round. Ghostly Fish Steak is one of the more peculiar recipes you'll eventually learn in Disney Dreamlight Valley, and...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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A Minecraft Movie has earned $ 157 million, the most successful domestic opening weekend for a videogame adaptation ever
Move over, Mario. It comes as absolutely no surprise that A Minecraft Movie has done incredibly well at the box office. Even before it hit...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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With a quick BIOS flash and a spot of overclocking, one modder has got his RX 9070 to outperform the normally faster RX 9070 XT
It's the Vega 56 days all over again. Getting more performance out of your graphics card these days is a lot harder than it used to...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Patent document shows AMD started researching the use of neural networks in ray-traced rendering at least two years ago
Just because it's patented doesn't mean it'll ever be used but you never know. GPU companies, like AMD and Nvidia, spend huge sums of money...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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How to use the management clipboard in Schedule 1
Enter the big leagues with your army of assistants. Intuitive isn't the word I'd use to describe Schedule 1, in large part thanks to its odd...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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Bungie is finally ready for a Marathon 'gameplay reveal'
Also there's a pink robot cat. Marathon | Save the Date Trailer - YouTube Watch On Following a hype trail that's included an ARG and a...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
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You really should play Sultan's Game, a beautiful, cruel card shuffler which launched on Steam recently
It sold over 100,000 copies in just a few days. Challenged to a supernatural game by the sultan, you have to fulfill the conditions of a...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
gaming
Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 7
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle. We've got a hint for today's Wordle right here and ready to help get your Monday...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
gaming
The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe
BattleTech: Gothic will have its own mini-line of miniatures and games. Tabletop wargame BattleTech is getting its first real alternate universe in...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
gaming
You can create plinking, plonking renditions of classic game theme tunes with a sweep of your finger using these 3D-printed fidget toys
All together now: plink, plonk, plink plink plink plonk, plink plink plink plink plink plink, plonk. 3D Printed Musical Fidget - Super Mario World...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
gaming
Doom modder puts the Slayer in true hell: A minimum-wage fast food job that's 'psychological warfare only rivalled by the likes of Desert Bus or that one mission from Dying Light 2'
What reheated hell is this? I made a DOOM wad where you PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG - YouTube Watch On 31 years ago, Edge...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
gaming
AMD is reportedly plotting an NPU-enabled 'Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme' chip for handhelds and we still can't figure out what it'll do for us aside from drain more the battery juice
If you really must have Copilot+ in your hands... AMD is reportedly planning to release a new version of its Strix Point APU for handhelds...
pcgamer.com - 5 days ago
gaming
Overwatch and World of Warcraft art director Bill Petras has died
Petras had a long and illustrious career in the games industry, mostly at Blizzard Entertainment. Bill Petras, a veteran of Blizzard Entertainment...
pcgamer.com - 6 days ago
gaming
Assassin's Creed Shadows fixes Valhalla's biggest mistakes
But it doesn't go far enough. It's no secret that Assassin's Creed has been stuck in a bit of a rut for a while. While...
pcgamer.com - 7 days ago
gaming
Tekken 8's newest season is being dogpiled with negative reviews as director says there's a 'disconnect between what the community wants' and what the developer is doing
It's not looking good for Tekken 8 Season 2. Tekken 8 is losing the matchup against its own community right now, with its second season being met with...
pcgamer.com - 7 days ago
gaming
'Sweet Liberty, the automatons are invading Minecraft!' Helldivers 2 player commemorates the game's most famous battle by recreating it in Mojang's survival game
Digging for freedom. This week, Helldivers 2 celebrated the first anniversary of Malevelon Creek, the game's most famous battle that saw participants...
pcgamer.com - 7 days ago
gaming
Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio gave up on the System Shock remake because the cyberspace sequences were 'too hard,' and I can't tell you how disappointed I am right now
I kid, of course. Mostly, anyway. For me, the name Raphael Colantonio is basically synonymous with immersive sims, which for the record I love deeply....
pcgamer.com - 7 days ago
gaming
Jason Momoa adopts bold marketing strat for A Minecraft Movie: Telling everyone he doesn't let his kids play games or have phones—'I just want them to use their creativity in a different way'
A wise choice, but bad advertising. Very large man Jason Momoa has been out and about promoting the so-close-you-can-taste-it Minecraft Movie...
pcgamer.com - 9 days ago
gaming
No one's making a new BattleTech videogame any time soon, so I'll console myself with this $ 18 bundle of stuff for the tabletop RPG
Alpha struck. Remember Harebrained Schemes' turn-based BattleTech game? That was great. 85% great if you listen to our BattleTech review from back...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Nintendo got a Bloodborne spiritual sequel before PC even got the first game
The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct ended on a truly stunning reveal: FromSoftware is making a game called The Duskbloods, set to release in 2026, and it...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Nintendo Switch 2 specs: $ 450 price tag, bigger 1080p LCD screen, 4K support, 256 GB storage, 'mouse' functionality and more
The specs of the console's new Nvidia chip, however, remain mysterious. Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 02.04.2025 - YouTube Watch On Nintendo has...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour
AMD CPUs are up and Intel down, too. Yes, yes, Valve's Steam hardware surveys can be problematic and occasionally throw up anomalies that can't...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Our favourite wireless soundbar just hit its lowest ever price in the latest Amazon deal, solving one of our biggest gripes
It's an all-rounder, and available in tons of colours. BlueAnt Soundblade | 120 W | 2x neodymium drivers, 80 mm neodymium subwoofer | USB Type-C,...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Assassin's Creed Shadows didn't have yellow paint originally, but unfortunately players like me are stupid
My words, not Ubisoft's. Yellow paint: it's the scourge of our time . Or at least, that's what I've gathered from the approximately 4,000,000 online...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Schedule 1 is my favourite co-op game of the year because it lets me bully my friends into doing the hard parts for me
This empire-builder lets everyone do the things they love. I didn't realise a criminal empire would lead to so many early mornings. Yet, here I...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
The Nintendo Switch 2 mouse controls are a great gimmick but they don't excite me at all
They don't spark Joy(Con). Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 02.04.2025 - YouTube Watch On When I first saw that the Nintendo Switch 2 would be...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
A 60 year old videogame just hit its highest player count ever on Steam and I'm pretty sure it's because people are pirating Schedule 1
Are 100,000 people playing something called Spacewar? Probably not. At time of writing, SteamDB's concurrent player ranking is led by the usual...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
A Minecraft Movie review
"It's harder to create than to destroy. That's why cowards tend to choose the deuce." You may be wondering where this quote is from. Could...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
The PC game releases we're most excited about in April
A much anticipated puzzle game, a big RPG with a strange premise, a return to the RTS golden age, and more. The PC game release...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Nintendo is going to charge Switch 2 handheld console owners money for a glorified digital manual that doubles as a game
There's no actual price yet, but Switch 2 Welcome Tour is definitely a 'paid' game. Is it a game? Is it a manual? Maybe it's just...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
'We were at war with our customers': Unity's new CEO talks about arriving to the 'insane' post-run time fee dumpster fire
"I wanted to be sure they understood that we were going to do things differently." Unity's been having a rough few years—mostly due to...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Atomfall surpasses 1.5 million players to become Rebellion's most successful game launch in 32 years
Not bad for a company that's been that long. Rebellion's been around for a long time , and it's put out a lot of videogames—some...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
You can get PC Gamer's longest-reigning Top 100 winner and enough branching narratives to keep you busy for the rest of the year for under $ 15
Thousands of hours of isometric point-and-click action for one ridiculously low price. Disco Elysium is a real special game at PC Gamer—we gave the...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
But AMD's statement doesn't quite square with Reddit reports... Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia's GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years
Futureproof features mean squat here and now. It only seems like yesterday when I got my hands on ATI Technologies' first and much-anticipated Radeon...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Call of Duty will finally let console players turn off crossplay to dodge PC cheaters, which is potentially terrible news for all the legit PC players
Black Ops 6 Season 3 expands crossplay options to regular unranked multiplayer. In a win for console players fed up with Call of Duty's cheating...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
It's actually happening, everybody stay calm: Silksong properly confirmed for a 2025 release date at the Nintendo Direct with a whole 3 seconds of footage
Rattling the bars of my cage. Gnawing them, too. Dear reader, this is not a drill: Silksong's release year has officially been confirmed. While it's...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
Ambitious burrito-lover mods real-life Chipotle orders into Fallout 4, thrilling community who can 'Finally get the food poisoning perk!' in reality
"This is an extremely serious mod. Not for the faint of heart." Once upon a time , back when videogames were properly visionary, we had a...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
It's clear Hasbro, the custodians of D&D, have no idea what to do with Baldur's Gate 3's success—but that's nothing new, it's spent the past 10 years fumbling the bag
The instant collapse of Sigil is just the latest in a long line of missed opportunities and self-inflicted wounds. Dungeons & Dragons might be, if...
pcgamer.com - 10 days ago
gaming
It took nearly 20 years but one of the best PSP games is finally coming to PC
Pata- pon. Pata-pon. Pata-pata-pata-pon. PON PON PATA-PON. PATAPON 1+2 Replay – Announcement Trailer - YouTube Watch On I didn't have a PSP when the...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
gaming
Inzoi and The First Berserker Khazan devs suggest ditching the latest Nvidia drivers if you're running an RTX 40-series graphics card
RTX 50-series can still update their drivers though. If you aren't one of the lucky customers to get their hands on RTX 50-series graphics card,...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
gaming
Oh, you tease—we don't know when exactly GTA 6 is coming out because Take-Two's CEO wants 'to maintain the anticipation'
"The anticipation for that title might be the greatest anticipation I've ever seen for an entertainment property". Unless Rockstar and Take-Two decide...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
gaming
This nearly budget gaming PC build made me realise availability is just as important as affordability when building a cheap machine
A budget part is only as good as its price on the shelf. There have been some excellent budget PC parts released over the past...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
gaming
Mecha Break competitor Steel Hunters releases in early access on Steam this week, offering a slower, more tactical free-to-play mech game
The World of Tanks developer's mech combat game is entering public beta. Steel Hunters takes the the spark-filled clashes between Megatron and Optimus...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
gaming
'I was surprised, because I loved the trailer': Jack Black didn't get all the hate for the first Minecraft movie teaser
The negative reaction to the trailer didn't just surprise Jack, it also apparently left him thoroughly shook. A Minecraft Movie | Teaser -...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
gaming
Schedule 1 cheats and console commands for infinite money and free ingredients
Every cheat and console command you need to change your wanted level, teleport, or stack up cash. Schedule 1 is all about slowly climbing your way...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
gaming
It's tough to find a good price on a gaming laptop right now but this $ 900 RTX 4070 HP Victus is a tall glass of water in a desert of deals
Good prices on budget gaming laptops are still possible, if you know where to look. HP Victus | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 8845HS | 16.1-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz...
pcgamer.com - 11 days ago
books / gaming
Elon Musk's estranged daughter weighs in on his pro gamer claims: 'He was a Bronze Torbjörn main. He was f***ing dogsh**t'
"He would try to constantly get us to play ranked with him, and I'm 90% sure it was just because we could carry him." In a...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Screenshots have seemingly leaked of the new Star Wars game from a team of former XCOM developers, and surprise: it looks like a Star Wars XCOM game
Featuring Bo Katan and Ahsoka Tano. Developer BitReactor has been particularly coy about its upcoming Star Wars game. Though it was first announced in...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Inzoi mods are here and unsurprisingly 'Remove Shower Blur' is ranking high
Back in my day there were cheat codes for this sort of thing. Given the popularity of the Wicked Whims mod for The Sims, and...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Turns out Inzoi's inhabitants wear towels in the shower because pixelating them Sims-style was too saucy: 'We actually tested this ourselves during development, so you can trust us'
There are dozens of them. Inzoi has been in the hands of life sim sickos for a few days now, and while there are pockets...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Inzoi players are giving classic Sims townies a big ol' ultra-realistic makeover and I'm floored how good they are
From Bella Goth to Eliza Pancakes, here are some top-tier Sims-to-Inzoi character creations. It's only been a few days since Inzoi launched, but I'm...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
education
Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today
The trick, it turns out, is to use an awful lot of clever and complicated math. Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today's...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Doom: The Dark Ages' melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I'm more eager to play the full thing than ever
Doom Souls. Leave a videogame series in a covered, humid environment for long enough and it will, according to some inextricable and mysterious law of...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Wizards of the Coast says it didn't mean to send a DMCA takedown notice to the Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod: 'We are in the process of fixing that now'
The mod has Swen Vincke's personal approval, and the legal threat didn't go over well with fans—now WotC says it was "issued mistakenly." Recent...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming
And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver. While Microsoft's Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
fitness
European Commission orders Apple to finally open the gates of its walled garden and level the playing field for third-party developers
The Apple Watch and AirPods may finally have some competition from third-party accessories. The European Commission is stepping up its efforts to...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
auto
CEO of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two isn't worried about AI-generated slop games: 'It’s built on data that already exists, it’s backward-looking—big hits are forward-looking'
Grand Theft AI-to. Generative AI has shunted its great technological heft into all sorts of industries over the past few years—and videogames aren't...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Nordhold is out now, and one of the year's most interesting tower defense games
Send some bad monsters to Valhalla. Nordhold - Official Release Trailer - YouTube Watch On Any strategy fan likes to see a nice tower defense...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
diy
At one point, Avowed would have taught us to use magic with an explosive Elder Scrolls reference: 'How about we just have a guy on the road that blows himself up'
The Morrowind gag is, blessedly, still in the game in a different form. When I spoke to Obsidian region director Berto Ritger about Avowed earlier...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
gaming
Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City's grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners
The move to Unreal Engine 5 will bring visual upgrades and a photo mode. Back in 2023, I had a blast with developer Frogwares' remake of Sherlock...
pcgamer.com - 12 days ago
technology
It still makes me uneasy that my hundreds of Steam games can't be passed on when I die, at least not without violating the EULA
(But can you really violate a EULA from beyond the grave?) As a teenager, I really enjoyed the game Shoot Many Robots. It wasn't amazing,...
pcgamer.com - 14 days ago
auto
The new game from former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies is coming in June, and boy it sure looks like a Rockstar game
MindsEye tells a tale of power and corruption in the near-future metropolis of Redrock City. MindsEye - Welcome to Redrock - Official Story Trailer |...
pcgamer.com - 14 days ago
apps
How to get a job in Inzoi
Everybody has to at some point. Knowing how to get a job in Inzoi is a pretty important part of the experience, especially since your...
pcgamer.com - 14 days ago
fashion
Studio Ghibli AI image trend floods social media, cheered on by OpenAI and denounced by critics as an insult to Hayao Miyazaki
A heart's a heavy burden indeed. If you're on social media you've probably stumbled over some quote, clip, or screen grab from one of Studio...
pcgamer.com - 15 days ago
design
Inzoi lets you customize your entire house down to the last thread, which is great in theory but doesn't feel good in practice
It turns out I don't like being left to my own devices. When I started building my character, or Zoi, for the first time , Inzoi...
pcgamer.com - 15 days ago
diy
Elden Ring mega-mod The Convergence redesigns legacy dungeons, improves tutorials and gives its new bosses their own theme music
Experience Mohgwyn Palace, Miquella’s Haligtree and Farum Azula as never before. Elden Ring is going to be one of those games that never dies....
pcgamer.com - 15 days ago
technology
Humanoid robot Neo Gamma gifts Nvidia CEO a studded leather jacket and may even be able to one day wash up a cup without dropping it
I'm not going to be asking AI for fashion advice. Ever. In a video announcing a collaboration between 1X's AI team and the Nvidia Gear...
pcgamer.com - 16 days ago
technology
OpenAI's GPT-4o model gets image generation update for all of your anime-style selfie needs
Copyright concerns continue. For my sins, I do occasionally scroll through TikTok. In between the usual suspects of ear worm music loops and memetic...
pcgamer.com - 16 days ago
gaming
'Ok, so dragon builds are a thing now': galaxy-brained Helldivers 2 player incinerates a bile titan with a hover pack and a flamethrower
Free fire. As a weary veteran of Helldivers 2's galactic war, I thought I'd seen it all. I've seen helldivers choke to death on infinite...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
gaming
From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now
Rolling grasses have given way to a vineyard in northern California. Windows XP was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
science
No Man’s Sky lets you unearth ancient, angry mechs in the astro-archaeology filled Relics update
Stone ghosts, skeletal companions and titanic boneworms. While October might have been a better time to introduce spooky scary skeletons to No Man’s...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
gaming
'World’s smallest LEDs' could lead to accurately lit screens with 127,000 pixels per inch and much more immersive VR
A stunning display. Some time s small is actually big—at least when it comes to advancements in LED technology. For a bright, clear picture,...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
how-to
How to upgrade weapons in Atomfall
Remove that ugly rust from your trusty guns and buff their stats. Want to upgrade weapons in Atomfall? Though there's no way to improve your...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
technology
7 things to find first in Atomfall
Get started on your countryside adventure by tracking down some good gear. Knowing what to find first in Atomfall can be a little tricky. Though...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
gaming
Don't panic! The 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' option Amazon just removed was only used by 0.03% of customers and they can still have it
The small percentage of affected users will be automatically opted into the remaining "Don’t save recordings" option. Take a deep breath. While we are...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
technology
10 Atomfall tips to thrive in post-apocalyptic Cumbria
Brave the perils of Windscale's quarantine zone. If you're taking the plunge into the idyllic countryside of Cumbria and the post-apocalyptic Lake...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
gaming
I love the 8BitDo Retro C64 keyboard but I'd pick its cheaper NES-themed model near its lowest price ever during Amazon's Big Spring Sale
NES or C64. Which one are you picking? 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard (N Edition) | Hot swappable | 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth, and wired connection |...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
gaming / technology
CD Projekt says it's not using generative AI on The Witcher 4 because it's 'quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership'
The studio may look into gen AI if and when the legal landscape becomes clearer, but for now it's staying away. CD Projekt said in...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
gaming
By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you'd 'basically get in trouble' for breaking schedule, says former dev: 'A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want'
Fus by numbers. Starfield sort of came and went, huh? With a lukewarm reception on release, a DLC that didn't quite summon that bygone Bethesda...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
how-to
How to unlock the blacksmith in The First Berserker: Khazan
Craft new weapons and armour using scrolls you find. Not sure how to unlock the blacksmith in The First Berserker: Khazan? If you're exploring each...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
how-to
How to claim The First Berserker: Khazan pre-order bonus and deluxe edition DLC
Collect your exclusive Fallen Star armour set for Khazan. You're likely looking to claim your pre-order bonus in The First Berserker: Khazan if you're...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
architecture
A unique aspect of Japanese architecture turned out to be a key reason the Like a Dragon games can reuse assets so effectively—and deliver more compact, memorable open worlds than western cities
It's all about the verticality. Spend enough time running errands and beating up thugs in the Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) series, and you'll...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
gaming
Old armor continues to fall victim to Final Fantasy 14's bizarre two-channel dye system, unless you're super into changing the colour of teeny-tiny eyelets: 'Why even bother at this point?'
Mourning alongside my fellow Gryphoskin Breastguard enjoyers. It only took a decade, but Final Fantasy 14 finally added an extra dye channel to a...
pcgamer.com - 17 days ago
technology
US pressures Malaysia to stop banned AI chips potentially entering China by monitoring 'every shipment that comes to Malaysia when it involves Nvidia chips'
The USA really doesn't want DeepSeek to have those chips. The United States has come into 2025 swinging when it comes to foreign imports around...
pcgamer.com - 18 days ago
gaming
Ubisoft says don't compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' success to Valhalla: The latter launched in Covid's 'perfect storm' and feedback on platforms 'less affected by review bombing' is stellar
And let's be honest, the second-biggest launch in AC history is still a very big launch. Assassin's Creed Shadows is doing very well. Incredibly well....
pcgamer.com - 18 days ago
business
Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
"Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?" One of this year's GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of...
pcgamer.com - 18 days ago
technology
'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties
iOS connectivity is going to need to get cool with a lot of things very quickly. Apple is well known for its closed ecosystem of...
pcgamer.com - 19 days ago
technology
The 2012 source code for AlexNet, the precursor to modern AI, is now on Github thanks to Google and the Computer History Museum
One of the first modern neural networks makes its way to Github. Watch On AI is one of the biggest and most all-consuming zeitgeists I've...
pcgamer.com - 19 days ago
technology
Dune: Awakening promises us a breath of fresh air, skipping early access for a full launch with no monthly subscription in May
Dune: Awakening is just two months away from launch—which won't be early access. Dune: Awakening is only a couple months away from release, and...
pcgamer.com - 19 days ago
technology
Noctua's pumpless 'thermosiphon' liquid cooling unit is expected to be released in 2026 and has already given me a free lesson in basic thermodynamics
Turns out you don't need a pump after all. Noctua is perhaps best known for its brown fans and conventional air coolers, but it might...
pcgamer.com - 19 days ago
technology
MSI has gone so heavy with 12V-2x6 power sockets in its latest high-end PSUs that many AMD and Intel graphics cards have no way of being powered
A sign of change in the PSU market or just a one-off for a specific market? Nvidia's 12VHPWR power connector, later updated to the 12V-2...
pcgamer.com - 19 days ago
gaming
I downloaded this bear-obsessed comedy FPS to kill time before Doom: The Dark Ages and discovered the most underrated shooter on Steam
Bears in Space offers far more than cosmic ursine adventures. You can probably guess what my expectations were for Bears in Space. I'll give you...
pcgamer.com - 20 days ago
gaming
A beta of backyard FPS Neighbors: Suburban Warfare is out now, and the balance discussion is hysterical: nerf trash can lids and children
"Pls nerf kevin." Neighbors: Suburban Warfare - Official Early Access Release Date Trailer - YouTube Watch On Neighbors: Suburban Warfare was revealed...
pcgamer.com - 20 days ago
gaming
Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets a crumb of support as EA offers free weapon skins to coincide with a 50% discount
All Dragon Age games available for cheap until March 27. The Steam Spring Sale may be over but, like rain in Scotland, the discounts never truly...
pcgamer.com - 20 days ago
gaming
'You’ve been asking, and we’ve been listening': Myst remake adds a whole new world to the classic adventure, one originally introduced in another overhaul from 25 years ago
Rime and reason. time is a flat circle, and Myst has new content. Developer Cyan Worlds had added another area to its modern remake of...
pcgamer.com - 20 days ago
gaming
An FPS studio pulled its game from Steam after it got caught linking to malware disguised as a demo, but the dev insists it was actually the victim of a labyrinthine conspiracy
I thought this one was going to be simple when I first looked into it. First reported by TheGamer, a Steam listing for a game...
pcgamer.com - 20 days ago
gaming
Another round of Baldur's Gate 3 unearthing reveals Minthara can end up living in a sewer, an unused beach ending, and more
Sorry, Minthy. BG3's Endgame Secrets And Cut Content Explained - YouTube Watch On YouTube Baldur's Gate 3 expert SlimX, who brought to our attention...
pcgamer.com - 20 days ago
gaming
A bizarre mod that adds human poop to Skyrim led me on an enlightening journey into Viking sanitation: 'Your world will certainly be more immersive, but it will also certainly smell worse'
Everyone Poops­—Mihail's Shards of Immersion adds droppings for humans, falmer, and giants. I've played a few Skyrim mods that stank in my time , but...
pcgamer.com - 21 days ago
gaming
I played the lost videogame sequel to 1984, and came away more nostalgic than ever for gaming's awkward adolescence in 1999
What a time to be alive. The year is 1984. The game, also, is 1984. The book it's based on? 1984. The year it came out? 1999, but it...
pcgamer.com - 21 days ago
gaming
Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones
Is Microsoft tracing Nvidia's already-trodden path...? Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at the GDC conference with claims of "game...
pcgamer.com - 21 days ago
gaming
Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because 'StarCraft sold 3 million copies in Korea'
"Once someone simply repeats a previous argument, it's clear they are no longer functioning from logic or intelligence." Age of Empires 2 fans are no...
pcgamer.com - 21 days ago
gaming
Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $ 500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'
"I knew he wasn't a bad kid, but there'd been this generational shift." One of this year's most interesting GDC talks was delivered by Monica...
pcgamer.com - 21 days ago
gaming
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting a new roguelite wave defense mode that sounds a whole lot like a souped-up take on Killing Floor
Mortis Trials will see players stack unique buffs over 12 waves of heretic-slaying carnage. Fatshark has done a fair bit of fooling around with...
pcgamer.com - 21 days ago
gaming
'Players don't explore': former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of 'open world fatigue'
"They're wondering, 'Okay, how far away is the next thing? I really gotta run all the way across the map?'" said Cameron Williams of...
pcgamer.com - 21 days ago
gaming
Assassin's Creed Shadows immersive mode explained
Immersive yourself in Shadows' sixteenth-century Japan. One of the first choices you'll make when booting up a new save in Assassin's Creed Shadows is...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'
"Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games." It's the 2025 Game Developer's Conference, and one of this year's most interesting...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
Acer Predator Z57 gaming monitor review
There is no single display technology that does everything well. That's an objective fact and something the stupendous, incredible and delightful new...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
celebrity / gaming / how-to
Ghoul players in Fallout 76 are starting to place their camps in the most radioactive areas of the map, and regular humans aren't happy: 'I had to inject 30+ radaway into my veins'
Only for the children of atoms. Ghouls made their way into Fallout 76 earlier this week, and since then it's mostly been positive. Regular players can...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
Dive into Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium's exhilarating new update [Aphelion]
Recruit the ice-cold leader Klukai, engage in new game modes and more. Anime girls and post-apocalyptic military are like peanut butter and jelly: A...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
technology
Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the 'meme Turing test' has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps
But it might also be something to do with people enjoying 'bad' memes. A new study has made the curious finding that memes with AI-generated...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
Wizards of the Coast gaming head says Baldur's Gate 3 'certainly raised the bar' and changed how they think about big budget D&D, but they still want 'different entry points' including smaller games
Not every D&D videogame going forward will be trying to replicate Baldur's Gate 3's dizzying depth. Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
After Ubi came crawlin' back to Steam, Assassin's Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla's player record
Hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi. Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin's Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
The first non-Steam Deck SteamOS handheld is now available for preorder, and Lenovo may be aiming for the ROG Ally X's throne
The SteamOS model takes a price cut on the recent Windows one. If you want a more powerful handheld gaming PC but don't want to...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
X- Com creator Julian Gollop unexpectedly takes over sequel to sprawling board game adaptation, and you can try out the closed beta next week
Flaming Fowl step aside to make way for Snapshot Games, but it still looks lovely. As much as I like getting friends sat down around...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?
Not just test chips, but 'production silicon'. "We are now running production silicon in Arizona." So says none other than Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang....
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming
Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'
The return of the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious. Charles Zukowski, a game marketing strategist, delivered a talk at Game Developers Conference 2025...
pcgamer.com - 22 days ago
gaming / learning
Meet Luna, the new AI robot dog who teaches itself using a digital nervous system and software 'that allows any machine to learn like humans and animals do'
Wake up babe, a new self learning robot dog has dropped. Revolutionary AI: Luna the Robot Dog Learns on Its Own | AI15 - YouTube Watch...
pcgamer.com - 23 days ago
learning / technology
ChatGPT faces legal complaint after a user inputted their own name and found it accused them of made-up crimes
When AI ‘hallucinations’ are far from harmless. AI ‘hallucinations’ are a well-documented phenomenon. As Large Language Models are only making their...
pcgamer.com - 23 days ago
photography
Monster Hunter Wilds' next set of event quests let you snag a snazzy earring, plus armor and weapon decorations
Getting an earful (of metal). Monster Hunter Wilds just released its next set of event quests—which'll give you a chance to snag some snazzy...
pcgamer.com - 24 days ago
pets
My favourite rapid trigger keyboard is back at its lowest price and comes with a cute OLED screen to show game info (or a cat)
It's pricey but still an excellent keeb. SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Gen 3 | OmniPoint 3.0 HyperMagnetic Switches | Wired | rapid trigger | $ 219.99...
pcgamer.com - 24 days ago
gaming
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 17, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to. Best of the best 2025 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All- time favorites...
pcgamer.com - 26 days ago
gaming
REPO's first update will add a new map and a 'duck bucket' so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out
Tired of dying to that duck in REPO? Its first update promises a fix, plus a new map and more. REPO is already getting its...
pcgamer.com - 26 days ago
gaming
92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed
60% of the time , it works, every time . The past few weeks have been pretty huge for PC gaming hardware releases, and seemingly for some rather...
pcgamer.com - 26 days ago
gaming
The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'
Well, it certainly wasn't game of the year 2023. First reported by 80 Level, The Day Before studio Fntastic has reportedly sued Russian news site...
pcgamer.com - 27 days ago
gaming
My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'
Moves of the Diamond Hand has the right stuff. When I first fired up the demo for Moves of the Diamond Hand, I rolled a...
pcgamer.com - 27 days ago
gaming
Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever
A mere $ 2 and it's yours. Doom 2016 is less than two dollars. Id's superb reboot of its own 1993 FPS is currently available at a 90% discount thanks...
pcgamer.com - 27 days ago
gaming
Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'
Shifting sands. Dune: Awakening | Exploring Arrakis — Secrets of the Desert - YouTube Watch On I felt like I knew a lot about Dune Awakening, having...
pcgamer.com - 27 days ago
gaming
Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
This could be a little confusing—the new flick will apparently go back to the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel. Get ready to get confused, because Deadline...
pcgamer.com - 28 days ago
gaming
The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'
Fields of Mistria is also 20% off until Thursday. Throwback farming sim Fields of Mistria proved pretty darn popular when it launched into Steam early...
pcgamer.com - 28 days ago
gaming
The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday
A discount so deep you could use it as a trench. Steam's spring sale has officially sprung, bringing an array of mighty discounts like Doom 2016...
pcgamer.com - 28 days ago
apps
The latest Windows 11 dev build gives you the ability to snap together commonly paired apps for access in a single click, and I'm already sold
Now I can open Solitaire and Spotify even quicker. If you have signed up for the dev build of the latest Windows update, you should...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
entrepreneurship
How to get disruptive customers to leave in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies
When rude retail customers turn up, show them the door. The Sims 4 really does reflect the best and worst parts of life, including the reality...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
entrepreneurship
The best part of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion is just coming up with fun small business ideas
You can get as wild as your imagination allows—from grungy laundromats to drag show clubs. The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion has opened its...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
It launched upside down and on fire, but busted and brilliant Stalker 2 has attracted 6 million players to the Zone in the last 3 months
Love wins. The process of reviewing Stalker 2 will live forever in my memory—spending a solid week doing almost nothing but play it in order...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
books
Split Fiction review
Need to know What is it? A world-hopping co-op adventure with a pair of aspiring authors. Release date March 6, 2025 Expect to pay $ 50/£40 Developer...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
The unofficial Civilization 7 manual: everything Civ 7 doesn't tell you about its rules and systems
Civilization 7 doesn't explain many of the things you need to know to play it well. Here's how it all works. Editor's note: I was surprised...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
how-to
How to unlock Jasmine and Aladdin in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Let's visit a whole new world. Disney Dreamlight Valley loves to make you work for new characters, and unlocking Jasmine and Aladdin is no exception...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review (Asus Prime OC)
AMD has gone big with the new Radeon RX 9070 XT, and I don't just mean because it's an absolutely monstrously large GPU. This is the...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $ 700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!
Are these the cards that will really be available? Best Buy has had a quintet of MSRP-priced RTX 5070 graphics cards listed for a while. Will...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming / learning
We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing
A-I can't believe it's not actually intelligent. When I say 'AI', what do you think of? Large Language Models saying something outrageous? Vaguely...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones for release today
And a big salute for the MSI RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC, which is still in stock at Newegg for $ 650. This Gainward card is in-stock for £650...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition review
There's a shadow hanging over the new Nvidia RTX 5070. It's a shadow that's dulling the glint off every one of the new RTX Blackwell card's...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October
Supermassive's latest horror adventure arrives later this year. Directive 8020 - Story Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games - YouTube Watch On I'll always be up...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Capcom says Ōkami sold quite well, actually, and it's wanted to do a sequel for ages but was waiting for 'the stars to align'
Such stars including Hideki Kamiya. Capcom's announcement of a sequel to Ōkami came as a big surprise last year, not least because the original is...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Viktor Antonov, the visionary artist who defined Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died
Antonov also consulted on Doom 2016 and Fallout 4. Viktor Antonov, the Bulgarian artist who served as art director on both Half-Life 2 and Dishonored,...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
LAN Party simulates LAN parties without the LAN
The experience of getting together to use a LAN, except it's on WAN. LAN Party Reveal Trailer - YouTube Watch On Have you ever wanted...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Maybe I'll finally stop getting lost in Fallout: New Vegas' Bison Steve Hotel thanks to this new minimap mod
Look, it's kinda weird in there. Earlier this month, modder Stentorious on the New Vegas Nexus graced us with one of those "oh my god,...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Saber Interactive's head honcho pulled a wild stunt to nab the Halo: Combat Evolved remaster, telling Microsoft he'd do the job for free before ultimately squeezing the publisher for millions
Strap in, folks. If you've ever wondered how Saber Interactive ended up handling the remaster of one of the biggest shooters of all time , well,...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Controllers beware: The much-loved and much-hated Shinobi series is being revived
Streets of Rage 4 developer Lizardcube will release Shinobi: Art of Vengeance in August, bringing back a series that led to a lot of smashed...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago
gaming
Diablo speedrun sleuths proved its 15-year world record was fake after reverse-engineering the game and failing to replicate the run in 2.2 billion possible randomized dungeons
They were thorough. First reported by Ars Technica, a team of Diablo speedrun enthusiasts have decisively proven that a three minute any% world record...
pcgamer.com - 30+ days ago