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Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access
extraction Hyper Light Breaker makes a great first impression.
Path of Exile 2's first patch of 2025 is coming later this week, with 'more rewarding' endgame mapping and the rollout of respawns when fighting pinnacle bosses
news Larger balance changes are being kept for when GGG's ready to roll out a new League.
An ambitious Counter-Strike mod to emulate the OG 1.6 experience in Global Offensive has been rejected by Valve after 8 years of development
news Some of the Classic Offensive team's Source engine workarounds may be the culprit.
Activision will send you alarmingly detailed data for every single Call of Duty match you've played in the last 4 years if you ask, and players are using it to figure out their mysterious SBMM rankings
news SBMM actually stands for "Smash Brothers Melee Melee."
Civilization 7 has been Steam Deck Verified ahead of its launch next month
news "One more turn" was really meant to happen while all cozy in bed.
23-year-old D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights just got a new update thanks to the 'unpaid software engineers' of its unkillable community
news It's always a good time to play NWN.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
A tabletop RPG designer made a game about the way FromSoft NPCs say cryptic stuff and go 'heh heh heh' all the time, and the result is a love letter to the 'grubby little weirdos'
effed up wee guy Roleplay their "earnest but often fumbling tragedy."
Marvel Rivals' latest update quietly killed the game's burgeoning mod scene
news This was 100% inevitable, but still a bummer.
Hyper Light Breaker will cost $30 and for a limited time come with a free copy of Drifter
news A pretty great deal if you missed the 2016 classic.
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas will double down on reacting to player choices because it's the future of games: 'I've never been a big fan of cutscenes because they're not interactive'
news You know what? Sounds good to me.
OG Fallout lead Tim Cain dusts off a trove of old development photos dating back to 1994 to show 'what development looked like in the '90s'
news We've got team photos, candids, and even the physical 3D models used to make Fallout's "talking heads."
It sounds like we'll have to wait even longer to find out what the deal is with OD, Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele's game, movie, and 'new form of media' that had the trailer with all the faces cryptically talking at us
news I'd be bummed if I knew what I was supposed to be bummed about.
I've seen enough: No more forcing singleplayer studios to make mediocre live service games
cut it out We're leaving this one behind in 2024.
After losing his father to cancer, mega streamer Shroud is running a January 'Fragathon' where he'll donate to cancer research for each in-game kill
news K/D ratio for a cause.
Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
news I'm all smiles over here.
Minecraft creator Notch says that he 'basically announced minecraft 2' with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor
news You can kind of just say anything on there now.
6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025
sleeper hits We were hyped for Helldivers 2 before it became a bestseller, now here are our predictions for 2025's sleeper hits.
Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state's invasive porn ban
news Understandable. But also kinda funny.
With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about
DIY RPG Getting creative with the most ambitious Skyrim and Fallout 4 mods.
