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The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
This homebrew plugin that lets you install GOG and Epic games on your Steam Deck is getting a standalone Steam release
News Is that allowed?
Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not
Repeat history Delays have hit every major Rockstar open world game since 2004.
Persona series director says Atlus's flashy menus are 'actually really annoying' to design
News Sometimes we suffer for our craft.
Former Bethesda and BioWare devs are making a Stardew-like with Redwall animals, and oh my god look at this little mouse farmer carry a pumpkin
News Would that we could all be a little creature doing little tasks.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't have an arachnophobia mode because it won't have any spiders
News No spider swapping necessary.
This pixel art road trip RPG's reveal trailer is the only thing that's ever made me nostalgic for my crappy first car
News Keep Driving won't have to tell me twice.
Steam Game Recording gets 4K and ultrawide monitor support in the latest beta update
News Embiggened.
Just as I'd made peace with my conveyor belt spaghetti, this Satisfactory player started building cathedrals
News "What game are we playing again?"
'None of this makes any sense': Amazon's latest MMO import is a localization disaster
EUGH Throne and Liberty spills more slop in Amazon's free-to-play trough.
'Dungeon crawler' enters the Merriam-Webster dictionary alongside 'touch grass' and 200 other new words and phrases
News Sometimes language evolves. Other times, it gains a level as a dwarven fighter.
Steam's Turn-based RPG Fest is offering lots of discounts on leveling up your guys
News And just like that, roughly half my wishlist is on sale.
Starfield's Shattered Space patch fixes a modding restriction that could turn your game into a surrealist hellscape
News Also, Annihilator Rounds will no longer annihilate your companions. You're welcome.
Germany's world-first Warhammer academic conference is happening now with talks about 'authority and pluralism in the grim darkness of the far future' and 'Tyranid xenobiology'
News I knew I should've gone to grad school.
French Ubisoft employees urged to strike over new return to office policy: 'The consequence of its decision will be the loss of our colleagues' jobs'
News Ubisoft walked back its remote work policy following troubled employee negotiations.
Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo could've been planning its Pocketpair lawsuit before Palworld even released: 'If you know who you're going to go sue, you can draft claims to target them'
News Nintendo had filed amendments for its patents in the run-up to Palworld's launch.
Videogame patent lawyer says Nintendo is taking a risk with its Palworld lawsuit: 'They've exposed themselves in a big way'
News "If you're too broad, then you've given them a pathway to make the patent go away."
A videogame patent lawyer breaks down Nintendo's risky Palworld lawsuit: 'It definitely feels like a punishment'
patent monsters A crash course in videogame patent law and the legal minefield Nintendo's navigating by suing Pocketpair.
Satisfactory players achieve absurd early-game speeds by building more ziplines to zipline on while ziplining
News I live up here now.
If history can tell us anything about the Palworld patent lawsuit, it's that Nintendo's out for blood
IT'S-A BLEAK That's not a lawsuit. That's a declaration of war.
The next Black Mirror season brings Paul Giamatti, Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, and a sequel to USS Callister
News In 2025, phones will once again be too much.
Is Nintendo suing the Palworld devs over a patent on throwing Poké Balls?
News Opening the Pal Sphere-shaped Pandora's box of patent filings.
In a rare triumph for videogame discourse, God of War Ragnarok will have a setting to reduce puzzle hints on PC
News Mimir can buy the game if he wants to play so badly.
