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June 23
- Sand: Raiders of Sophie is like Sea of Thieves on land, but even tougher for solo players
June 22
- 'Our game isn't gore porn' says director of game whose trailer features a zombie baby's skull being crushed and someone's eye getting scooped out with a knife
- Realistic Roblox FPS made by two people hits 7 million plays, reminding us that Roblox games don't have to be terrible
- An absurdly large patch filled with over 2K lines of changes is how the devs of early access co-op RPG Fellowship hope to hook players on running MMO-like dungeons without the MMO
- I usually skip soulslikes not made by FromSoftware, but one Steam demo just won me over
- Stop Killing Games says 'the fight goes on' after European Commission rejects proposed rule changes: 'We're much more than just this single petition'
- Steam finally found a way to recommend new games that doesn't feel like I'm getting KO'd by a fire hose
- Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its 'religious' refusal to 'build a more closed system'
- After a delay in 2025 and two delays this year (plus two more short delays this morning) mech fortress-builder Sand has finally launched
- They're making a Sea of Thieves movie and the more I think about it, the more I'm into it
- Eidos Montreal founder says modern execs are driven more by spreadsheets than passion for games
- Valve confirms it's 'working with AMD on FSR 4 support for Steam Machine'
- The arcade meets the hex grid in R-Type Tactics—an unlikely fusion that shines like a star on PC
- Sign up for a Steam Machine before June 25: Valve running one-time randomized queue due to limited availability and to 'limit resellers'
- Steam Machine is here, starts at $1,049—sign up live for 512 GB/2 TB model, with optional Steam Controller
- The Steam Machine is the biggest victim of the RAMpocalypse to date, and that's made me unreasonably annoyed
- Steam Machine review
- Bungie's at a crossroads: Should Destiny 3 be a live service, just a campaign, or something else entirely?
- I had my doubts about Critical Role's new 13-player D&D campaign, but its latest episodes have me fully bought into its grand, ambitious promise
- Persona 4 Revival's overhauled combat looks splashier and easier than ever, though I'm a little worried about those dungeons
- Ori creator declares Xbox Game Pass a mediocre slop factory that's 'a little like Communism'
- Guild Wars' devs tried to escape the MMO branding in 2005, citing all the things that would become genre staples 20 years later
- Steam Week in Review: spammy, AI-generated capsule art is a pox, and it makes browsing Steam less fun
June 21
- Former Unreal Engine 'lead evangelist' Sjoerd De Jong leaves Epic Games, says the industry is reaching a 'pivotal' moment that he must 'come to terms with'
- One of the best ways to play Morrowind just got better with improved scripting support for magic mods and a host of crash fixes
- RPG studio Obsidian faces class action lawsuit alleging violations of state wage laws
- 'I was like, am I gonna pass out on stage?': Final Fantasy 14's rock band on transcending from videogame music to on-stage at the UK's biggest rock and metal festival
- Don't Starve Together hits new concurrent player count peak a decade after release
- Data analyst finds 'AI stigma' on Steam can reduce the number of reviews a game gets by around 53%—and the reviews it does get are more negative
- Bryce Clark, game director of Poppy Playtime, has played 23,000 hours of Steam games: 'I'm a bit obsessed with learning the market'
- You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4
- Dishonored review (2012)
- This gorgeous and ambitious Grand Theft Auto 4 total conversion swaps Liberty City for a Fargo-style slice of rural Wisconsin, featuring backroads and a pizza delivery job gone wrong
- CD Projekt Red boss believes some fans were forever burned by Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch: 'I'm convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely'
- Marathon players are amassing way too much loot in Season 2, and the primary cause is a mystery: 'We're still unravelling the source'
- Guild Wars 3 isn't the only new Guild Wars on the way: ArenaNet just announced a Guild Wars card game
June 20
- Crysis 2 had problems, but it got one thing right: destruction
- The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release
- The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025
- Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
- The best D&D videogame you've never played is one guy's outsider art, personal Baldur's Gate saga
- 5 promising games recently cancelled by Microsoft
- I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet
- Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount
- Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash
- This GTA 5 filmmaker is livestreaming every step of machinima production, from location scouting to live debugging when the game inevitably crashes
- WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out
- The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year
- After losing over 30 pounds exercising in VR for six months, I can say it's worth the effort (and sweaty faceplates)
- Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'
June 19
- Guild Wars 3 is 'significantly more' of an MMO than the first game, but that doesn't mean it's like GW2: 'All three of our games can coexist as different experiences'
- Path of Exile 2 director says players exploiting system to become in-game millionaires 'ruined Christmas for me' and joked that he's 'lost all sympathy' for everyone who took advantage of it
- Nobody needs to grind for 100 hours to see how Path of Exile 2 has redefined the action RPG loot hunt
- Bobby Prince, the legendary composer behind Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, has died
- If you like puzzle platformers, multi-dimensional traversal, and ducks—I have the game for you
- Sony deletes mention of PC from annual strategy report in favour of a gushing about AI
- The greatest FPS mode of all time is endangered
- Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign
- Don't be put off by its name—Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart is actually a very fun dungeon crawler with a unique spin
- 'London is ready to level up and lead the world in esports': Mayor of London wants to use big events to stimulate economy and create opportunities for young people
- MrBeast is co-writing 'the book event of the year' to 'get a whole generation psyched about reading again'
- Palworld studio says 'gamers don't want' AI in their games: 'It feels like everyone who is super gung-ho about it isn't from the industry'
- Logitech G305 X Superlight review
- The US is worried China could have a top-spec chipmaking machine despite export restrictions, but the machine maker ASML denies it
- WoW's quest to add variable difficulty to just about everything continues in Midnight patch 12.1's Mythic world bosses, though there's a catch
- This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it
- AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers
- The best cosy cleaning sim I've played has just gone into playtest—if you like PowerWash Simulator, then this is the next game for you
- Defenders of the Crown: The Legend Returns is a lavish remaster of a strategy RPG classic, and if you've ever poured 100 hours into a Crusader Kings game I think it's one for you
- Players have uncovered a mistake with GTA 6's cover art and we've got a re-run of the same old jokes: 'pre-order cancelled'
- Slay the Spire 2 patch fixes RNG bug after a fan's '8 hour descent into madness' proves it exists—alongside heaps of other updates and a new Act 3 boss
- Why the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra might finally encourage your foray into mobile gaming
- Full list of The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature cheats for editing Fairy Sims or mastering their Apothecary skills
- Steam Controller demand is so high that new reservations won't be fulfilled until 2027
- Steam Next Fest's top played games include only 1 of over 500 demos with an AI disclosure
- The devs of EVE Online's survival spinoff are on a 'side quest' to get it on Steam Deck: 'Our goal is to get this to as many players as possible'
June 18
- Trump says Apple has agreed to build chips with Intel in the USA
- Instead of wishlisting its game, the developer of my favorite Next Fest demo wants you to play anyone else's: 'There are some genuinely great creators in this fest who deserve the attention'
- World of Warcraft players will never have to leave the MMO once Blizzard adds Discord chat for guilds in the next update
- The director of all six Sharknado movies has a new film, and it's a Dave the Diver live-action short
- Ready your gaming battlestation with the perfect loadout and save big with these Corsair Vengeance bundles
- A small band of Nightdive rebels united to make the System Shock remake after it 'ran out of money' midway through development
- Snapdragon Reality Elite chip aims for 'up to 60% higher GPU performance, up to 30% increase in CPU performance' in VR gaming
- Melgeek Real81 review
- Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly
- My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under
- Valve's latest SteamOS is out with 'initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware'
- 'Many people want to use VPNs for privacy—that is important—but we know that some children use them to get around restrictions': UK government considering VPN ban
- SanDisk's latest Optimus gaming SSDs start at $799 MSRP for the 2 TB model and you don't even get Gen 5 speeds for that
- Dave the Diver: In the Jungle's cutscenes are even hornier than they are in the base game
- GTA 6 pre-orders open next week, and to celebrate Rockstar has revealed its official cover art
- Gabe Newell buys $70.8 million mansion in Florida, and naturally it has a dock for his superyachts and a personal tunnel to the ocean
- We now have teardown pics of the Steam Frame controller and it looks like it could be pretty repairable
- D&D-inspired Critical Role's homegrown videogame is coming along well, says Laura Bailey: 'There's a lot of work being done'
- Snap unveils AR glasses which CEO describes as 'highly wearable' in clip that visibly shows the chunky frames crushing his ears
- Valve upgrades AMD's 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves
- 'Price increases are unavoidable' says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn't impervious to the global memory shortage
- Final Fantasy 14 will give players in Japan a dog for paying their taxes
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Planet Zoo 2
- How to get the fishing rod in Dave the Diver: In the Jungle
- Dave the Diver: In the Jungle review
- Xbox's latest tactics display 'a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves', says former PlayStation exec
- Do you recognize these survival crafting games? Prove you're a real master of roughin' it with our latest quiz on base-building sandboxes
June 17
- PlayerUnknown's survival game becomes free-to-own and offers Steam refunds 'without restrictions on playtime or how long ago you bought the game'
- Hours after announcing a collab with Fortnite, Vampire Survivors dev suggests it may back out over Epic's touting of generative AI
- '[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
- Guild Wars 3 hopes to solve the problem that made me quit Guild Wars 2 after thousands of hours with the series
- Capcom has heard feedback that Onimusha is too easy, says it's 'confident fans will be satisfied with difficulty' in the final game
- Rockstar faces legal setback as UK tribunal allows its fired workers to bring every one of their union busting allegations to trial
- 'It feels to many like a tidal wave is sweeping over the AAA game business,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney in his diagnosis of the industry's woes
- Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
- Windows 11 Search will soon see through your typos and actually find what you're looking for
- All roads lead to philosophy, as this Wikipedia game proves
- Stellaris' Nomads expansion finally lets me live out my Battlestar Galactica fantasies, though its Wayline system could definitely use some work
- Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power
- Warning all weebs: Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine
- Don't Kill Them All make you keep orc calm so orc not smash resources—big smart, neat game, like demo much
- Civilization is the most iconic turn-based series of all time, but Sid Meier considered making it an RTS: 'It could have easily gone in different directions'
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we need to 'deal with social norms' surrounding AI but apparently that means 'just go engage it'
- The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales review
- Forza Horizon 6's latest patch may have quelled Bowie Knife99's rage alongside making it easier for players to 100% regions
- The DualSense can still drift, but Sony may be exploring magnetic tech for shape-shifting buttons in whatever comes next
- It just keeps getting worse—Microsoft reportedly already had Ninja Theory in its crosshairs while pushing the announcement trailer for its next game
- 'Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB': RTX Remix 1.5 update shrinks file sizes, and also starts letting in AI agents
- There's no such thing as the Matt Mercer Effect
- I ran 45 idle game demos from Steam Next Fest all at once for a desktop companion battle royale
June 16
- I need you to play this unbelievably tense 2 hour horror about descending into hell with a grappling hook
- Bungie will let Destiny 2 'near infinite damage' bug ride for a week: 'Do your thing'
- Attention former 2000s youths: A second Beyblade-inspired roguelike has hit Steam Next Fest
- 'World of Warcraft Camelot' is a mysterious new branch of the MMO that Blizzard fans are convinced is the first real evidence of a remixed WoW Classic
- All Grow a Garden 2 codes for June 2026: Earn sheckles with free seeds
- Less than a month before launch, survival RPG Outward 2 delayed into 2027
- Overwatch season 3 kicks off with the gift of Jetpack Cat nerfs after the Apache helicopter meta dominated the World Cup
- Sega says it made a 'life-sized figure containing Sonic's DNA,' and I have a few questions
- Silicon Motion says 'the retail SSD market has almost disappeared' as NAND shifts towards AI servers and OEMs scoop up the drives that usually sit in our gaming PCs
- An obscure new game-breaking Destiny bug lets you one-hit bosses, and I don't think Bungie's gonna let this one slide (Update: Bungie is letting it slide... for a little bit)
- Thanks for the Soup is the most fun I've had in a horror game in a long time, and that's owing to the broccoli
- Rode NT1 5th Generation microphone review
- I've been waiting 20 years for a worthy sequel to my favourite life sim, but THQ Nordic has other ideas
- One lone legend waiting for GTA 6 to launch has decided to make the game from scratch themselves: 'The goal: beat the real GTA 6 to launch'
- A new flip phone that blocks social media at a system level is coming out, and you'll never guess which retro gaming company is making it
- Embark is finally cracking down on Arc Raiders' cheaters and duplication antics: 'Our commitment to anti-cheat initiatives remains a top priority'
- Phanteks XT View Matrix case review
- Mistfall Hunter's demo might finally convince me, a souls sicko, to give extraction games a proper go—even if it's more modern God of War than Nightreign
- Arc Raiders is finally testing a ban on free loadouts, and I'm here for it
- Intel's first chip with Nvidia graphics is coming in early 2028 according to the latest leak and it could mark a new era for handheld PC gaming
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7X Wireless Gen 2 review
- There are stirrings in the VR industry that much better displays could be in the pipeline
- Viewsonic unveils the world's first 24-inch 4K gaming monitor for super crispy visuals in a smaller form factor
- I already like the new survival horror Hellraiser game more than the movie
- Noctua's AIO liquid cooler is here but hooo boy is it expensive
- Today I learned the real reason Warhammer 40k's iconic 'Land Raider' got its name and it ain't because it raids the land
- Modular laptop maker Framework forced to push SSD prices even higher but says DDR5 is 'stable'
- How to complete Arc Raiders Converging Paths project
- How to complete the Forgotten Relics event in Arc Raiders
- DualSense PC gamers have been vindicated at last, as haptic support is finally here—though no thanks to Sony
- Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review
- Destiny 2 comes full circle as players honour the tradition of pushing bosses to their deaths—this time by becoming a porcupine and smacking them with a void football
- Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'
- A lost Dragon Ball Z fan RPG has resurfaced after mystery user drops it in a seven-year-old forum thread
June 15
- The new NBA game's street balling is strong, but it's way too sweaty for its own good
- Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and other Xbox studios could close
- Finding a great new Discord hangout game that's not a roguelike still feels like striking gold
- Xbox Game Studios head and chief of staff step down as 'Xbox reset' looms
- It would take you 90 straight days to play each of Steam Next Fest's demos for just 30 minutes
- My new daily game is like Wordle but for minigolf
- Xbox is reportedly closing South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games after bragging about its award-winning developers earlier this year
- Blizzard almost put Devil May Cry's style rank into Overwatch for its newest combo-heavy hero Shion
- Meccha Chameleon lives up to the hype as the next great party game—so if you haven't played it yet take this as a sign to check it out
- Uni researchers plan to build a low-carbon data center hivemind from 2,000 Pixel smartphones—with Google's help, no less
- It looks like more handhelds will soon be able to run SteamOS if this MSI Claw gameplay test is anything to go by
- Sony Inzone H6 Air review
- Here's when Shion and the new Overwatch season release in your region
- BioWare's co-founder fought to make Baldur's Gate 3 for over a decade, then Larian did it instead: 'I don't really get jealous'
- As Xbox eyes layoffs, Microsoft's CEO says its videogames aren't monetised enough—so it's not the cancelled games or $68.7 billion deals or AI overspending, then
- MSI Versa 300 Wireless 8K review
- Gears of War: E-Day system requirements are here and it might be bad news for GTX 10-series cards and, well, storage in general
- MSI has listed the official pre-order price of its new Claw gaming handheld and I think you're going to want to sit yourself down
- Say hello to EA Advertising, which will let your favourite brands 'integrate' ads to 'enhance' your experience
- Both Final Fantasy 7 remakes are dirt cheap right now in a franchise sale—but I think you should play FF12 and enjoy the series' best combat system at a discount, too
- Dead by Daylight celebrates its 10 year anniversary by adding the most sought after horror icon and teasing 'a sweeping visual overhaul'
- Steam's second most-played game right now is reportedly a bot-filled marketplace that can get you banned
- 2 entire years after being raked over the coals for it, Dragon's Dogma 2 is removing a bunch of those silly little microtransactions that weren't even P2W anyway
- Solasta 2 character creator update means you can manipulate face-sliders until you're hot at last
- Dishonored dev defends loading screens: 'I actually have a soft spot for all that'
- Steam Week in Review: More than 300 games released on Steam last week, and 120 of them had AI disclosures
June 14
- Wax Heads is a shop sim about helping someone find the album that could change their life, and it has a demo
- Hide-and-seek game where you paint your body to blend in sells a million copies in four days
- Blizzard sues to kill another World of Warcraft private server for 'large scale, egregious, and ongoing infringement of [its] intellectual property'
- I went to the UK's largest rock festival to see its one and only videogame band
- 'I try to play as a completionist and leave no stone unturned and no enemy unkilled': Returnal director Harry Krueger talks Deus Ex, Resident Evil, and the arcade classic that inspired Housemarque's best games
- FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki references 'yet to be announced' games while commenting on controversy at parent company Kadokawa
- Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable'
- Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies vet tells me the theme park 'assembly line' MMO just isn't viable anymore, especially as dev costs spike: 'We hit the wall'
- Cave Story+ review (2012)
- Mina the Hollower has a secret ending, but good luck seeing it
- Frontier is making a Planet game that isn't about zoos or rollercoasters, and has just filed trademarks for Planet Resort and Planet Festival
- After gaming on pro-level panels I can tell you now that 360 Hz is the sweet spot for gaming monitors
- This hand-embroidered medieval adventure game looks like a lovely, chill time—but I'm warning you, don't be fooled by its pleasant exterior
- Sony pulling back from PC also means it's pulling back from China
- You can download Planescape: Torment's unofficial DLC mod right now
June 13
- Alongside its new expansion, Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader got a massive patch buffing its weakest classes and companion
- Nintendo's legal battle with Palworld looks shakier than ever: It may only get '$30,000 chump change' if it wins at all
- Alright, who's the joker trying to charge $100 on Steam for an almost entirely AI-generated game?
- 'Make some noise': Vanillaware reportedly wants more of its games on PC, but it's up to the publishers
- A little known rendering technique that can create low-cost, photo-real graphics may be about to have its big moment in game development
- New Crimson Desert patch lets you hoard 100 pets and gives you more chainsaw access
- Sim racing is flourishing, but what happened to the arcade racer?
- I wish Bungie would stop designing excellent multiplayer shooters and go back to making fantasy strategy games where you blow up zombies with dwarf bombs
- It's bittersweet that the best time to play Destiny 2 in years coincides with its end, but I'm happy for the new players who get to experience its most liberating iteration yet
- This massively ambitious The Witcher 3 mod aims to recreate its biggest cut questline, and you could be the voice of Geralt of Rivia
- Palworld 1.0 won't wipe your data, 'but you should' says Pocketpair's publishing boss
- Dying Light 2 is a platform now, as the Breach update opens up Techland's zombie survival game 'even more to UGC content'
- Don't expect the Death Stranding movie to retell the story of the games, as its director says the film will be set in his 'own corner of the world'
June 12
- Everything we know about Silent Hill: Townfall and its foggy Scottish town
- Microsoft is looking to speed up development of future Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games
- Tracing blueprints in Paralives is so easy it freed me from 25 years of The Sims' grid-based tyranny
- Even a fantasy game like Skyrim won't let me be a trillionaire
- RPG Maker forums are closing, nearly 15 years of knowledge and online culture are at risk of being wiped
- Final Fantasy 11 is one of the greatest MMOs of our time
- Over the Hill's Next Fest demo promises a stylized off-roading game for people who actually like to drive
- ProtoArc EM25 ergonomic mouse review
- Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
- Former Destiny 2 CM claims Bungie was 'very close to shutting its doors' before the buyout
- Dutch non-profit set to take Valve to court for keeping game prices high
- Judging by how well Gothic Remake has sold, we still love eurojank
- I'm sad, I'm angry, I'm interested: Destiny's final cutscenes are a painful end to a new saga cut short
- Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2x6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector
- OpenAI says it busted a shadowy Chinese operation that used ChatGPT to whip up data centre hate (and that achieved basically nothing)
- Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too
- 17 years ago, one engineer made a very important discovery: If you shout at data centre HDDs, they slow down
- Arm's ray-traced demo of its neural technologies for mobile phone gaming proves that there's an alternate chip for handheld gaming PCs to use outside of AMD or Intel
- The 9 games we're most excited about after Summer Game Fest's showcase bonanza
- I've beat Ascension 10 with every character in Slay the Spire 2, and these are the Silent cards I recommend
- The Steam Frame is arriving in the US, suggesting the VR headset's launch isn't far off
- If I had known how incredibly useful a NAS would be, I would've set one up a lot sooner
June 11
- I watched the new Halo remake gameplay, then replayed the original to nitpick the differences
- Why do mech games rarely let you leave the cockpit? Brigador Killers devs joke that the feature 'added five years of development time'
- After playing the new remake of Tomb Raider, I'm convinced you can't actually remake Tomb Raider
- Time to get a little sadder about Destiny 2: TWIDs are coming to an end
- You can just bypass Fable's reputation system with enough gold, which seems like a waste of its 'complex, nuanced, take on morality'
- A single crab has the third highest player kill count in Path of Exile 2
- Quake Champions gets a huge update and free battle pass to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Quake
- Pokémon Go data was used to help train AI systems being developed for military drones
- Phantom Blade: Zero devs couldn't care less about releasing near GTA 6: 'We don't even think of the competition, what matters is how polished the game is'
- I was big into Clutch's mix of story and racing styles, but the driving's a lot simmier than I expected
- Dragon's Dogma 2 hands out an infinite fast travel item after people wouldn't stop moaning about how laborious it was to go anywhere
- Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room
- An SSD company has just agreed to an almost $2 billion multi-year NAND deal, which is a sign it expects the memory crisis to stick around for a while
- Xbox's new chief strategy officer is still a big believer in in-game ads
- How to take a photo of a Track Toy at Irokawa Space Centre in Forza Horizon 6
- SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected
- EVE Online's survival spinoff Frontier is a hardcore space sim you can play on a gamepad that's unlike anything else out there
- Where to find the Tokyo City region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
- Witchspire is a charming Palworld-esque survival crafting game that replaces the unpaid monster labour with magic and whimsy
- Humble's offering a nearly buck-a-game deal on some of the best reactive narratives out there, including one of my personal favourite games of all time
- There's one AI machine that doesn't need a nuclear power station to run, and it points to a potential way forward in the memory crisis
- The latest market data shows GPU shipments are holding up for now but AMD isn't making any inroads on Nvidia
- Browser-based dirt bike game is 'Motocross meets Wall Street,' letting you ride Nvidia and Intel's stock charts
- Extraction shooter peak is finally returning and all you Arc Raiders players should definitely take note
- Dog tries to shoot PC gamer, but their rig (and RAM) takes the bullet instead: 'It would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn't been there'
- This DIY motion capture rig features 16 cameras made from scratch and is doing nothing to assuage my Vtubing delusions of grandeur
- This custom fingertip mouse is one of the weirdest I've seen and now you can build one for yourself, though you'll need to sacrifice another mouse first
- The BBC quizzed chip maker TSMC on the possibility of increased prices and you're really not going to like the answer
- WoW Classic players are in an arms race against annoying RMT casinos, but Blizzard's working on strategies so 'they will hopefully piss off'
- Alienware AW2525HM 320 Hz gaming monitor review
- Framework has delayed its 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' by a month, citing problems with its display and touchpad
- Reports suggest Meta was working on another facial recognition feature that was quietly pushed out to millions of users before being just as quietly deleted
- Xbox CCO Matt Booty says he's seen The Elder Scrolls 6, 'it looks amazing, and it's coming along well'
- Xbox speedruns 'we're so back' to 'it's so over' pipeline at a speed previously thought impossible
- Your dad's favorite TV show might become a videogame
June 10
- Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing
- While you're waiting for Valheim 1.0, why not try this map that transforms it into a massive RPG?
- Jason Momoa drops out of the Helldivers movie
- Once again players are right to suspect AI was used in a game, once again a dev apologizes for using AI in their game
- 'An evolved game of cat and mouse:' Alien: Isolation 2 leads on taking the alien outside, the good kind of AI, and why a sequel took so long
- Are these real posts from the r/skyrimmods subreddit, or did I make them up? Take our newest and rudest quiz!
- Ubisoft closes another 2 studios, lays off hundreds more employees
- Ico and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda would like to see his old games on PC someday, too
- Xbox 'console exclusives' are strictly about console releases, Xbox exec affirms: Games will 'still show up on all the normal places where we sell the PC version'
- Steam Frame's tutorial video appears to leak on Reddit, demonstrating a very brief explainer of its software
- 18 embargoes from Summer Game Fest just lifted, so let's rank everything I saw in LA
- All 26 new catalysts in Destiny 2's final update
- After a 'corporate mandate' demanded they help with Call of Duty, Toys for Bob studio head says it took 'many mini miracles' to buy their independence from Activision
- 6 reasons why an Alienware 15 laptop is a great Father's Day gift for gamer dads
- Logitech's new mouse comes with a little bag to carry it around in. Oh, and it's foldable too
- Old Persona 4 voice actor is 'deeply grieving' being recast in the remake: 'Everything in life is transient… Thank you for sharing the journey'
- The Fable reboot won't have horns and haloes because of its 'nuanced and complex' take on morality, and also because you're going to constantly reinvent yourself
- Redditor finds AMD museum piece that once belonged to ex-CEO Rory Read, stashed away in a basement
- Archetype Entertainment founder and BioWare veteran wishes Exodus didn't look so much like Mass Effect
- Backrooms director's dad returns to old Facebook post asking for career help for his son as the movie hits #1 worldwide: 'Thanks for the help. He figured it out!'
- Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking
- ReVamp is like a reverse Castlevania where you play Dracula defending his castle, and every wannabe Belmont and Dungeon Keeper fan should pay rapt attention
- Valve will stop selling Steam gift cards at retailers over scam concerns
- Pathfinder creators Paizo have $10 million of inventory stuck in a warehouse somewhere because of Diamond Comics, forcing it to lay off staff
- Google claims most users know 'information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,' but a court ruled it's still liable for false claims made in AI Overview
- Microsoft rolls out Windows Low Latency Profile, giving older PCs a bit more snap when opening the Start Menu and apps
- How to complete the Distortions quest in Destiny 2
- How to score a goal in the hidden net in Destiny 2
- Both lawyers in case use hallucinating AI, causing judge to throw up hands, bar them for 2 years, fine everybody, and call the whole thing off for 60 days
June 9
- The Mortal Shell 2 open beta was downloaded 250,000 times over the weekend
- Legendary JRPG studio's 23-year shun of the PC has ended: the next Vanillaware game will come to Steam
- Donald Duck has five fingers in official art for Kingdom Hearts Collection, and that is definitely not right
- 'The curse of MIXED is broken:' Suda51 & Swery65's Hotel Barcelona claws its way to 'Mostly Positive' on Steam after Hail Mary patch and scrubbing AI assets
- Everything we know about Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the Remake trilogy's last act
- Destiny 2 goes out as God intended: Amidst absurd streamer drama featuring four content creators, an esports org, a boutique PC maker, an ex-NFL star, and $180,000
- Destiny 2's final update crushes the Steam concurrents peak hit by last year's Edge of Fate expansion
- Path of Exile 2 player willingly deletes level 100 character to become world first martyr, buffing everyone in the game: 'That was the coolest thing I've seen in a videogame in a very long time'
- One day before launch, extraction shooter Sand gets delayed again—oh, and it's an early access game now, too
- Nobody can tell if Overwatch's 52nd hero is supposed to be a robot or a human, but we won't have to wait long to find out
- The Elder Scrolls Online is now Steam Deck Verified after 2 years of tweaking
- Secretlab's CEO is getting tough on copycat chairs and doesn't feel pressure to adopt AI: 'If we were owned by outside investors, you can bet that AI will be somehow jammed down our throats'
- I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming
- Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days
- Surely FromSoftware has something brewing besides that Switch 2 exclusive, right?
- Best Amazon Prime Day keyboard, mouse and controller deals - get your hands on these discounted peripherals
- 'The thing that gives me hope is there is an enormous amount of capacity being built' - AMD's head of Ryzen and Radeon is pinning hopes of an end to the memory crisis on a supply ramp into 2028
- 2026 is shaping up to be one of the worst years ever for new graphics cards as Nvidia's RTX 50 Super Series refresh rumoured to be pushed out to 2027
- Kingdom Hearts 4 shows first signs of life after 4 years of radio silence
- KTC M27T6S review
- Koorui 34E6UC review
- Tech leaker claims that the RTX 50 Super refresh is still on, despite the RAMpocalypse, and it'll be joined by a 12 GB RTX 5060
- Halo Campaign Evolved: Everything we know about Master Chief's glow-up
- We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den
- Gabe Newell's racecar driver son Gray Newell to compete in 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race
- Stars Reach could be the second coming of the sandbox MMO, with player-built cities and 40+ Star Wars Galaxies-style professions to give me hope
- New rumour claims with '100%' confidence that AMD's next-gen Zen 6 desktop CPU will run at over 6.5 GHz
- We all know Arc Raiders' loot chase is broken—but this creator proved how bad the duping exploits and cheating really are
- After 3,000 hours spent in Total War: Warhammer, 40k's gameplay reveal has me convinced this one might genuinely end me
- Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
- Google reportedly orders at least three million chips from Intel to arrive in 2028, as TSMC struggles to keep up with the AI boom
- Apple's virtual Siri-ball is a glowing reminder to Google and Microsoft that user interfaces really matter in software
- Destiny 2's final update – live coverage of the end of an era
- AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs not out until late 2027 or even early 2028 according to new report citing graphics card makers at Computex
- Guild Wars 3 won't have a 'battle pass fee buried in it', says studio head: 'We're not gonna hold their time hostage'
- Best Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop deals - I'm finding the best prices on your next mobile gaming machine
- There's a wildly obscure easter egg in Lego Batman, I'm surprised anyone found it: it's hidden in BASIC code for the Commodore 64
- You should back up your Forza Horizon 6 save before its latest bug brings you to tears
- Before Obsession, Inde Navarrette was streaming her Call of Duty killstreaks with the type of unbothered grace I can only dream of
- Everything we know about Guild Wars 3 and how it plans to 'push the MMORPG genre forward'
June 8
- Derelict Star review
- No, Blade is not cancelled, Arkane artist confirms
- Xbox lost 'millions' of Game Pass subscribers after last year's massive price hike
- Famous game director Fumito Ueda says his studio does not use AI for 'game development'
- 15 minutes is all you need in this roguelike action RPG to feel like a maxed-out Diablo god laying waste to an entire screen of monsters
- A Star Trek horror game is just wild enough to work, but not the one Bloober Team is making
- 5 cozy game demos I'm downloading right now after I counted a whole 37 dropping during Summer Game Fest weekend
- One of the biggest VR developers in the business closes a studio: 'The VR market remains a challenging space'
- Fumito Ueda on why Gen Atlas has shooting but isn't a shooter, cool robots, and generative AI
- After seeing Thief Remastered, I'm calling it: That doomed Deux Ex remaster should get rebooted with Nightdive in charge
- Best Amazon Prime Day gaming headset deals - I'm hunting down the best-sounding cans for the lowest prices
- Studio says 'not every publisher' is swerving GTA 6's release and declares a November 5 release date for its game: 'Maybe we're just not afraid enough'
- Where to find Caine in Gothic Remake
- Hellblade studio kills its mysterious 'horrors of the mind' project so it can make a new Senua game instead
- A developer got the original Half-Life running on a 2007 Nokia N95 at a respectable 30 fps, plus it even works with a mouse and keyboard
- It's fine if the visitors to your theme park die in this sim: it's actually the whole point
- What's the plan with Halo, Xbox?
- After everyone hated his AI Prada ad, Hideo Kojima says he's 'not interested' in AI
- Summer Game Fest no-shows: The big games that were absent from 2026's showcases
- A new MMO announcement is more exciting than all the other SGF news combined
- After huge delays, will The Wolf Among Us 2 make you wait between episodes? CEO says 'We live in a Netflix era. People can't wait'
- Don't let Deadlock's MOBA tag scare you off—there's a quick play mode for dummies which is the perfect entry point
- Fumito Ueda knows that you're worried about Gen Atlas's framerate
- Games Workshop showed us The Emperor's current state for the first time in 38 years and it's hard to overstate how monumental that is
- How to open Scatty's chest in Gothic Remake
- There are already two mods to make Gothic Remake's lockpicking less painful
- I have played what I suspect will be a perfect videogame
June 7
- There's suddenly a terrifying number of games releasing this fall
- This is Why We Game
- Generative AI 'was only used as a reference,' Crazy Taxi creator says: Artists would 'look at that generated image and draw the actual thing'
- Every game, trailer, and announcement in the PC Gaming Show 2026
- Into the Wind is a gorgeous, Ghibli-esque adventure about taking over your missing uncle's delivery service, but with more dogfighting in your aeroplane bike
- Oh, yep, that's a pregnant nun chasing you in the gameplay trailer for Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy
- Robots and matter-altering powers help you get the edge in combat and exploration, in a new Exodus extended gameplay reveal
- If you've ever wanted to play Geoguessr with a narrative twist, Locator: The Search for Abigail is what you've been waiting for
- If you've ever thought to yourself 'Yeah, me and my mates could probably take on Batman' then P.O.N is the next horror game you should check out
- Everything I saw on my trip to Valheim's final biome, the Deep North: from ghost vikings to rampaging moose
- After half a decade, Valheim 1.0 finally has a release date
- We're getting a new Vampire: The Masquerade game and, hell yes, it's a 'narrative-driven CRPG' with big Disco Elysium vibes
- Gears of War: E-Day gets the official Cliff Bleszinski seal of approval
- About Fishing keeps reeling me in further with its creepy, nostalgic vibes
- We got a fresh look at Total War: Warhammer 40k and, friends, I'm already on board to do some horrible things to millions of spacemen
- From the creators of Mouthwashing comes a co-op tank game with a disgusting twist
- Dave the Diver becomes a real boy in this new live-action trailer for the upcoming In the Jungle DLC
- Armatus, the demonic roguelite where you start strong and just get stronger, is coming this winter
- This co-op clown cacophony crams over 80 minigames into a single videogame
- Indie climbing game rebrands and debuts unconventional tools like pogo sticks to help you reach the Sunset Summit
- Pipes.exe is a co-op horror game about the world's favourite screensaver
- Action roguelite To Kill a God gets a new mage character, and a demo for you to try them out in
- Co-op RPG Terrinoth: Heroes of Descent brings the board game to PC—and it's available to play right now
- Beast of Reincarnation has some stellar voice actors, but one has to play protagonist Emma completely devoid of emotion
- A shooter we called 'one of the boldest, freshest games' of 2023 is getting a sequel: El Paso, Elsewhere 2 sends a slo-mo vampire into the void
- We've just got a new look at 'the sequel to the award winning strategy game', Duskers 2.0, which promises higher stakes and a more emotive story
- Off-road racing? Psh, try off-world racing: Exo Rally Championship just launched on Steam
- Oh hell yes, Nightdive's next delicious remaster treat is Thief
- Outward 2, the sequel to a survival action RPG we gave an 89% to, is in open beta now
- Lovecraftian horrors and tough calls await you in roguelite climbing game Ascenders: Beyond the Peak
- Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game is Minesweeper but a deckbuilder where you're trapped in a horrible murder-lift
- Citizen Sleeper dev's next game looks nothing like it, and that's what makes me so excited
- Time Strike is a soothing balm in an age of twitch shooters and fast reflexes
- Rivage is a time loop puzzle game where something's gone terribly wrong, power's at a premium, and your salvation's a mysterious arcade machine
- Maximum Thunderness is a roguelike shoot-em-up that promises the same vibe 'of a Saturday morning cartoon'
- Xbox's big pitch for the future sure involves a lot of going backwards
- Shroom and Gloom is a deckbuilding roguelike that has you growing together 2 different stacks of fungal cards
- Wardogs looks like Battlefield with a persistent economy, and I'm fascinated by the consequences
- ReVamp, a castle defense roguelike where you command the armies of the dead for your mistress, is entering playtests soon
- Arkheron, an isometric Diablo-like battle royale where you ascend a tower, is getting a more forgiving Spire mode to prepare you for the big leagues
- Get ready for more puzzles and no rats as Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy confirms its release date
- Empulse's frantic movement and giant mechs are giving me serious Xbox 360-era FPS nostalgia
- Planet Zoo 2's gameplay reveal shows how to manage the new aquariums and aviaries
- Wardens of Avalon is knightly ARPG with an intriguing touch of… wait, city repair?
- Wind Runners turned me into a wannabe fighter pilot in 30 seconds
- Samantha Béart and Ben Starr headline a new Stronghold game coming to Steam later this year
- My favourite card-battling action brawler just got a sequel, and you can play it right now
- Void/Breaker returns with another huge update that makes you an even more efficient killing machine
- Cassette Beasts 2002 is a GBA-style monster collection game where you can splice critters together with the power of music
- Carve up foes with elemental combos in side-scrolling roguelite SlashZero
- AfterQuest is a classic RPG roguelite where everyone's got oodles of lore—even your enemies
- Another Door is here to ruin your friendships with lies, treachery, and gambling
- Poor Gary: Happy Bastards' PC Gaming Show trailer is a masterclass in delegation
- Virtue and a Sledgehammer has a new demo and a thought-provoking trailer that proves the game is about more than just smashing things (but you will still smash loads of things)
- Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions lifts off June 11, and my plan is to immediately try to deform a planet out of existence
- There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, but there is a reggae-punk singing cop who's going to die in 30 days
- Abiotic Factor's going on holiday with a new DLC, Entropic Break—just ignore the flesh dimension, I'm sure it's fine
- Get ready to rampage in this Hitman-like '90s sandbox revenge game
- Sated is a grimy cooking roguelike about preparing meals for biblically accurate horrors beyond knowing, and I'm signed up already
- An 'otherworldly algorithm' is affecting Manhattan in Control Resonant, which is why there are giant floating heads and everything looks like that
- Amid all the guts and gore of this year's Xbox Showcase the most pleasant surprise was the Ghibli-style life sim Vivarium
- Serious Sam: Shatterverse brings together 25 years of Sam in an absurd bloodsoaked roguelite
- Impress magical chefs and customers in this deck-building cooking sim, which has a new demo out now
- A sexy vampire game set in Cold War Berlin, what more do I need to say?
- Company of Heroes is back, and so is my urge to ruin friendships
- Return to the golden age of computing and take down evil corporations in Hack '95, which has a demo you can play now
- Boldly go where no gamer has gone before in a new Star Trek colony builder that just dropped a demo
- Spellsided is a strategy RPG where you play a hyper-customisable dice, and your challenges are 'a puzzle of your own design'
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide just gave us a greater look at the upcoming cybernetic warrior Skitarii
- Wielders of the Essence is revolutionizing the bullet heaven genre by letting you play as swamp-dwelling amphibians instead of vamp-hunting Italians
- This FPS that looks like Bioshock with magicians has me under its spell
- Persona 6 gets announced in the same style as The Elder Scrolls 6—just the name
- I've always fancied myself as a decent cult leader which is why I'll be checking out Join Us when it releases in March next year
- Alex Goldman loves challenging games like The Binding of Isaac, but the former Reply All cohost may have been defeated by Hollow Knight: Silksong: 'I spend six hours on a boss and I'm like what is life?'
- Metro 2039's bad guy reveal trailer has me thinking that maybe not everything is quite what it seems here
- Sea of Thieves will get custom games and machinima creation tools
- State of Decay 3 just gave us a release year, and at least that's something?
- Gears of War: E-Day is an 'Xbox console exclusive,' but still coming to PC
- Fill out a quick PC Gaming Show survey for a chance to win this sweet 'sleeper' gaming PC
- Aion 2 producer says it's good to have 'friendly competition' with Guild Wars 3 'during this period where MMOs are struggling'
- Mina the Hollower has the best sidequests of any game in 2026
- I'm convinced this artist has specifically made stickers and charms for my inner child
- Everything announced at Xbox Games Showcase 2026
- Helldivers 2 will evolve major orders into galactic war campaigns later this month, with huge changes to mission distribution and Super Destroyers also in the works
- How to watch the Xbox Games Showcase
- CD Projekt Red's mysterious Project Hadar will be an 'emotional, open-world experience' similar to The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Season 4 adds a mode that removes OmniMovement and a gun that aims for you
- Satisfactory's first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution
- Bloober Team's making a Star Trek horror game
- Play a demo of survival horror game The Sinking City 2 ahead of the full release in August
June 6
- Halloween teases single-player slash 'em up campaign in grisly new trailer
- Exodus somehow looks even more like Mass Effect than it did before it dropped a big gameplay reveal at the Future Game Show
- Some but not all Vampire Survivors spin-offs are 'Survivatons,' its creator has decided, and one will be revealed soon
- Gothic devs are 'monitoring the sentiment about lockpicking,' promise a PC patch for crashes by Monday
- Wardogs is a '100% player driven' modern military shooter for up to 100 players that's 'not a battle royale' or an extraction shooter
- Three days before launch, one of the most wishlisted games on Steam warns players not to expect 'a huge survival game' with 'hundreds of hours of main progression'
- Question time: How often do you actually talk to strangers in MMOs?
- Guild Wars 1 and 2 will continue to get updates even after Guild Wars 3 is out: 'We are not replacing your favorite games'
- Guild Wars 2 review (2012)
- PC Gamers, come rate my videogame vinyl collection and decide whether it was worth the $$$
- DLSS 5 isn't the first time the future of videogame graphics looked like total balls
- Indie devs mixed on Steam's latest redesign over visibility complaints
- Left 4 Dead meets friendslop as you and your pals try to escape 'the galaxy's most-unregulated waterpark'
- Fourleaf Fields is an adorable little farming sim with a spill-the-tea mechanic
- The vampire farm sim I've been anticipating for 3 years just released an even bigger, better demo for everyone to try before it launches next month
- I'm finally getting married in Fields of Mistria when its 1.0 update launches in August
- Gothic Remake's lockpicking system has broken me and I can no longer experience joy
- Call of Duty's new DMZ extraction mode is a 'full-featured game within Modern Warfare 4'
- I thought text-only Grand Theft Auto roleplay sounded too intimidating—but GTA World is showing me why players are slowing things down
- Star Citizen's latest alpha patch adds 385 asteroid defence missions, but players are reporting problems with broken hangar doors and exploding pilots
- 2026's weirdest tech leak involves scuba diving, a Caribbean island, and Gearbox head honcho Randy Pitchford, and no, it's not what you expect
- 'Reinventing the PC' is the concept Nvidia wanted to get across this Computex, but I'm not sure the AI room is being read
- Bloodlines 2's final DLC introduces swordfighting, dual pistol wielding, and other stuff that should probably have been in the base game
- The UK government is considering banning children from speaking to strangers in games like Fortnite and Roblox
- An 8-bit Cuphead game is being programmed in assembly language for the Sega Master System
- 7 years after it was announced, The Wolf Among Us 2 is finally set to arrive—in 2027
- I really want to know what the cube is all about in Haex
- These indie devs are so over algorithms they spent 1,500 hours listening to music on Bandcamp to compile the soundtrack
June 5
- GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers
- Believe or not, this co-op and PvP zombie shooter is 'inspired by true events'
- As someone with over 1,000 hours in Guild Wars 2, I hope ArenaNet has a better plan this time around
- Stellar Blade sequel looks like it will melt my PC
- N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer-focused follow-up to one of the best platformers on PC: 'we don't think anyone else on this planet is as crazy about 2D platformers as we are'
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is the end of the remake trilogy and will launch on PC next year
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance caps off Capcom's redemption arc with a 'massive' expansion in 2027
- 1666: Amsterdam is still happening, and I'm downloading the demo as we speak
- Star Wars Zero Company, the tactics game from veteran XCOM devs, confirms August launch and Anakin Skywalker cameo
- Sebulba and a whole bunch of other Glup Shittos appear in the first story trailer for Star Wars: Galactic Racer
- Bandai Namco is pitting Gundams against kaiju in 2027
- ArenaNet announces Guild Wars 3, promising 'an entirely new type of MMO experience'
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is Platinum's next action game, and it's coming from Paramount's new games label
- Crossfire was the most surprising game reveal I've attended in years
- I was worried Control Resonant wouldn't be Control enough, but then I got lost in an infinite bedroom dimension
- Tupac Shakur, who has been dead since 1996, will appear in the next Yakuza game
- It took 12 years but we finally got a teaser for Alien: Isolation 2
- Resident Evil – Code: Veronica remake announced
- Shadow of the Colossus and Ico creator Fumito Ueda's next game will let us pilot a giant robot head to take over mech bodies
- Ubisoft's free-to-play Division shooter is coming to Steam
- 007 First Light's Land Rover ads cross the line from product placement to late-night infomercials
- As a fan of Lunacid and Bloodborne, I immediately fell in love with this first-person bugborne that cribs the best quick melee in PC gaming
- Anthony Stewart Head, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died
- Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2026
- The console wars are back on, baby: Xbox CEO says 'we have to be very thoughtful' about console exclusivity on future releases
- Gothic 1 Remake review
- I've spent over 25 hours in Gothic Remake—here are my top 20 quick tips to survive The Colony
- How to watch the Summer Game Fest 2026 livestream
- How to fast travel in Gothic Remake
- How to join the New Camp in Gothic Remake
- How to complete The Vanished Warder in Gothic Remake
- Where to find all The Forgotten Recipe ingredients in Gothic Remake
- Everything I learned from enduring five hours of Mud in Gothic Remake
- How to complete Snaf's Recipe in Gothic Remake
- You can only pick one faction in Gothic Remake, so which one should you choose?
- How to complete The Price of Magic in Gothic Remake
- How to get armour in Gothic Remake
- How to get the Scavenger mount in Gothic Remake
- How to complete The Cult's Recipe in Gothic Remake
- Can you stow your torch in Gothic Remake?
- How to earn ore in Gothic Remake
- Where to find Bran to complete Up to His Neck in Gothic Remake
- How to lockpick and get lockpicks in Gothic Remake
- Learning magic early in Gothic Remake saved me from constantly getting mauled by wolves
- How to complete Casting Shadows and join the Old Camp in Gothic Remake
- How to get a map in Gothic Remake
- How to pass time in Gothic Remake
- Where to find vending machines in Forza Horizon 6
- The Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis system requirements are here—even if the game just got further away
- These are the 5 games you need to check out after watching A24's Backrooms film
- This snazzy red laptop from HP and Ferrari has a “carbon fiber and glass construction”, costs $5,599, and doesn't have a dedicated GPU
- Where to find Shibuya Crossing in Forza Horizon 6 and beat Tokyo Drift
- Godot devs are getting a helping hand from Microsoft to bring their games to Xbox on PC
- MSI's new Strike Alloy has almost every gaming keyboard buzzword thrown at it, with TMR, 8k, and rapid trigger, and you can even use it underwater
- Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package
- I stop looking for 5 seconds and now Crimson Desert has pinball and a rideable wyvern
- AMD says that no decision has been made about bringing FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3.5 GPUs, which seems to contradict AMD also saying that it has no current plans to do so because of hardware reasons
- Be Quiet! unveils huge new PC case designed for 'maximum performance' with room for up to seven HDDs
- Persona 4 remake news feels all-but inevitable, but a little rating weirdness means I wonder about Golden content
- Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one
- Thermal Grizzly's experimental direct-die CPU block is '3-4 times better' than most—but it uses diamond sheets that cost €500 each
- I expected Nvidia's keynote to leave out gaming entirely, but the RTX Spark's purported 5070-like performance is a pleasant surprise
- Check out this gachapon-inspired custom PC with a floating heart on top, and mini RAM sticks in its capsules
- Poll: Do you like the new Steam store design, or is it 'hot garbage'?
- Final Fantasy 14 housing lottery schedule: how and when to bid, and find out if you've won
June 4
- Valve really isn't budging: Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still 'shipping this summer,' it insists
- Remember when Star Wars and Command & Conquer ruled PC gaming? June in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago
- I regret to inform you that you almost certainly overlooked a sick as hell shrimp game on Steam last month
- 'There is no world where it makes sense,' Warframe creative director says of Destiny 2's demise: 'It's unthinkable'
- A Persona 6 announcement may be incoming
- Everyone in Rust is getting a new face
- 'We have a great relationship with IO Interactive,' Amazon says, but it won't commit to bringing the studio back for future Bond games
- 'What was unravelling is suddenly stabilizing': Destiny 2's last update is getting an absurd 71 pages of patch notes, but its story is closing with a shrug
- One mad lad has spent the past 3 years remixing hundreds of classic metal songs in the Doom midi soundfont
- Guy who swatted Grand Theft Auto 5 star is going to prison for 4 years: 'Won't be swatting anyone anytime soon... and they're coming for the ones he ratted out'
- Update: Bandai Namco confirms Elden Ring's new classes and gear update is paid DLC
- Gothic Remake launch times and release date in your region
- Path of Exile 2 raises the bar for all other action RPGs, and it's not even finished yet
- Summer Game Fest 2026 preview: What to expect from this year's showcases
- We could get a Resident Evil game set in Japan someday as producer Masato Kumazawa reveals the development team 'has given it some thought'
- Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless
- MSI somehow has both the ugliest and prettiest laptop designs this Computex
- New report claims Intel is 'struggling' to supply laptop CPUs based on its latest 18A node after speaking to Computex sources
- Subnautica 2 promises to add 'one of the most requested' features, but sorry, it's not a knife you can stab fish with
- Corsair's slightly-outrageous Warthog PC case is the thing I'd most like to take home from Computex 2026, and I'm not ashamed to say it
- I thought I was over 2.5D, but make it look like Marvel vs. Capcom plus Berserk and I'm back, baby
- The best quiet gaming keyboard we've tried is getting a smaller TKL version this year
- Corsair's range-topping AX1600i power supply gets some much-needed upgrades, including pin monitoring, proper GPU power sockets, and a reduction in size
- This year's Computex has highlighted just how big an impact Apple can have on the wider computing industry
- This skyscraper-shaped custom PC at Computex has a food stall out the front selling 'Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice' and a rock climber free soloing up the side
- Ace Combat's developers have been making games about fighter jets for 30 years, but they've never gotten to fly in one
- Where to find Edogawa Baseball Stadium in Forza Horizon 6: Pitcher Perfect photo challenge location
- The excess of Computex feels a little more tone deaf than usual this year, as the pricing elephant in the room becomes harder to ignore
- The follow-up to one of my favorite RPGs of the 2020s finally has a demo, and it does not disappoint: Bat people, a mushroom hellscape, and funky JRPG combat from bizarro world 2005
- I never change weapons in RPGs, which means I've made Obsidian director Josh Sawyer's life a living hell when it comes to making cool armour systems
- Ace Combat director says 'I've been doing this for 30 years, so I know exactly how hard we're going'—and after playing it, I can confirm Ace Combat 8 goes extremely hard
- Here's how to watch the Future Games Show's 40 games and 10 world premieres on June 6
- Shut the front door!: Alienware's new 5K2K RGB-stripe OLED could be the gaming monitor, er, endgame
- Gigabyte has shown off a microATX PC case with a 16-inch built-in LCD screen, which I assume would give you the most unique rig at the next LAN party
- New data predicts PC sales will tank in 2026 but Apple is doubling MacBook Neo production according to reports
- This gaming monitor has a feature that I've never seen before in a display: a slot that you can jam a full graphics card into
- Dominos Pizza UK has joined the gamer culture slapfight over God of War: Laufey, and I'd really like to just skip this part, please
- Keychron told us its new gaming mouse switches will have haptics like the Superstrike, but I'll still have to feel them for myself to be convinced
- Galax shows off 'next generation' GPU concept with actual Swarovski crystals in it, and I fear it may not have got the memo on the state of the market in 2026
- How the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra keeps graphics-intensive games smooth and lag-free
- Corsair's fighter jet-inspired case comes with a switch to toggle a light above the rear IO panel
- How to unlock Hercules and Phil in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Panther Lake has another powerful iGPU in its lineup but you'll probably never see it
- The overclocking headroom in AMD's Radeon 7000-series GPUs 'was certainly not accidental... the core of Radeon has to be all about value to the end user'
- Choosing to bring back the 5800X3D was a tough conversation for AMD... 'very hard, actually, very, very hard!'
- I got my hands on Framework's 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' and its tagline isn't just marketing hyperbole
- The blower is back: Cooler Master has made a GPU accessory that pushes hot air outside your case rather than onto your CPU
- Cooler Master is playing around with a 2000 W CPU and GPU cooling solution with four huge 180 mm fans
- Final Fantasy 14 seasonal events schedule: what to expect and when to expect them
June 3
- Legendary Warhammer artist John Blanche has died
- Which gaming clip just won $500? Check out the best videos of May, featuring nukes in Minecraft, eternal drifts in Forza Horizon 6, and a dragon-riding giant in Skyrim
- 007 First Light sequels will be 'done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,' Amazon exec says
- Summer Game Fest is here, so get ready for a lot of, 'Ugh, that game with the cool trailer used AI'
- 868-Back makes hacking as cool as '90s Hollywood thought it was
- They did motion capture on a cube
- This is me playing Alan Wake 2's native Arm build on an RTX Spark laptop, and I'm here for it
- For the sixth year running, Dontnod honors Pride Month by giving away an award-winning adventure game
- So long suckers! I am leaving to drink heavily and repair cheap cars in Poland
- Corsair announces solid wood front panels for its Frame 5000D PC cases, including a ripple one I'm not entirely sure about
- PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey'
- I made treants awkwardly rub shoulders with ringwraiths in the Total War-style RTS roguelike Tabletop Tavern, and I'm surprised as anybody that it worked
- Computex 2026 has really highlighted the fact that PC gaming tech isn't all about gaming anymore
- Marathon's new PvE experiment is Bungie's most genius decision yet, so make it a full mode already
- What's better than one high tier gaming rig? A double-decker gaming rig, according to Thermaltake
- This new microATX PC case comes with a Venom-like black liquid that reacts to sound and magnets, and I find it weirdly alluring
- NAND flash makers earned a record $46 billion in revenues over the first quarter of 2026, a shocking 3.5 times more than last year
- We got eyes on Ducky's sleek Year of the Horse gaming keyboard, and I can say I like it more than its last horse one
- The action-RPG our editor was excited enough to fly to China for just got a 50-day delay
- Bungie's traditional launch woes made for a terrible first impression of Marathon's exciting second season and undermined its free-play week
- Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher
- Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42
- Morrowind modder returns to remake a 20-year-old epic—a beloved 'Discworld, not Monty Python' project that's 'unexpectedly lore-friendly'
- Thermaltake has built a PSU that splits in two… on purpose
- Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'
- 'One of my favourites': Even Jensen Huang recognises the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as one of the best graphics cards Nvidia ever made
- We stood in awe in front of Corsair's RGB samurai sword PC at Computex, and we've got the pictures to prove it
- Final Fantasy 14's solo only challenge runner overcomes impossible odds again, this time by blowing himself up
- Gigabyte's new gaming mouse and keyboard look great and all, but can we get a round of applause for its web software
- Cooler Master is stuffing its latest cases with truly humongous fans for high airflow and quiet operation
- Wooting's big knob is much more than a volume dial, set to arrive later this year for 80 HE
- Silent Hill: Townfall will release in September alongside a handful of other blockbuster games hellbent on avoiding GTA 6
- New games in June 2026: It's a big month for Bungie and showcase reveals, but we're missing a key part of the monthly formula
- New Ill trailer sets a new bar for videogame ultraviolence, with at least three skull crushings
June 2
- Bandai Namco just stealth announced that one of the coolest Ace Combat games is coming to PC for the first time as a pre-order freebie
- Backrooms movie is just a start toward the 'true root of the narrative,' says director: 'I am definitely not done'
- Magic: The Gathering's Marvel Super Heroes set brings back completely uncontroversial and universally beloved comics event Civil War
- Funcom is adding a singleplayer mode to Dune: Awakening, and wow, the new features are definitely gonna bring me back to the game
- Destiny fans cry 'We Want Destiny 3' into void, void does not respond
- New God of War game likely won't come to PC
- Now that we're living in a KPop Demon Hunters and Jujutsu Kaisen world, yokai-smiting action game Kemuri should be a slam dunk
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis delayed into 2027, but there's a new gameplay trailer to make up for it
- I played 3 hours of the Rayman Legends 3D remake—and while I miss the 2D artstyle, boy is it still pretty
- The Rayman Legends remake has brought on Banjo Kazooie and DK64 composer Grant Kirkhope, who can apparently spin up gold in a day: 'He's super fast'
- Mina the Hollower sells 300,000 in 3 days, Yacht Club Games is saved
- 3 years after a $2 billion implosion, studio closures, and cancellations, Embracer's new CEO hopes 'trust is improving'
- How to complete Canvas the Castle in Oblivion Remastered and uncover the guilty art thief
- Pragmata director Yonghee Cho says it's not a sad dad game for a very simple reason: 'I'm not a sad dad, I'm a very happy dad'
- Here's how the Oblivion Remastered attributes list is different from the original
- Former Forza Horizon creative director reveals his studio's debut racer, which is still alive despite losing Amazon support
- Part of me wishes we could see the Subnautica 2 the devs scrapped: The Dwarf Fortress of ecosystem simulators
- AMD is considering a Ryzen 5 9600X3D 'later this year' but its value for gaming could suffer against its own stiff competition
- Maingear MG-1 Mk.II (2026) review
- 'People talk about AI reducing jobs, complete nonsense': Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticises economic doomerism on GTC stage
- 'Tell me that's not R2D2. Tell me that's not robotics': Jensen Huang thinks the future of personal computing is letting AI agents run your PC
- Minecraft dappled forest update: everything you need to know about the next new biome
- Google is raising an army of 32 million mosquitoes like some kind of Metal Gear Solid villain
- Excess often sells in the world of gaming PCs, but Asus' new 3000 W power supply makes little sense for even the wealthiest of whales
- CEO Jensen Huang says Nvidia is too busy with the 'gigantic project' of 'reinventing the PC after 40 years' to do a handheld gaming PC based on RTX Spark
- Overwatch is changing the requirements for its rarest anniversary event reward after realising playing 240 games over 3 weeks may be too much of a grind
- Keychron's on-the-fly optical/Hall effect mouse switch is taking on Logitech over one of the few things people didn't like about the SuperStrike
- DarkFlash's Computex Floatron case looks wickedly evil scientist, but I don't know if I like its 'floating base'
- The Tryx Vas PC case: briefcase or air conditioning unit, you decide
- Congratulations to the Paralives community for immediately making its most popular mod something called 'Parapenis'
- It's wild that Destiny 2's biggest ever quality-of-life update is the one that ends the game
- DarkFlash unveils another Sanrio PC case collaboration, but I dread to think what a pretty penny it will cost to build a full Cinnamoroll gaming rig
- Asus outs 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with new LG RGB-stripe panel, but it's a bit behind on brightness
- Keychron's carbon fiber concept is the skinniest keyboard I've ever typed on
- Thermal Grizzly enters the PC fan scene and of course it's more about quality engineering than RGB, though there's that, too
- While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler
- Jen-Hsun says RTX Spark 'is 100% awesome at everything everybody expects the PC to do, and it can do more'
- The Baldur's Gate remakes should scrap the original combat system and fully embrace superior turn-based fights
- Corsair's new 'Nightsword' gaming mouse has a dedicated Stream Deck button, and I'm deciding if I'd accidentally press it too much
- Fallout 76's latest Infestations update will be 'one of the easiest ways to get a four star' legendary as new type of hostile encounter spreads through Appalachia
- Gabe Newell reportedly snapped 'What the f*** do I pay you for if that's your opinion?' at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam
- Next-gen GPUs aren't around at Computex, but MSI's got a taste of what they might look like
- Intel targets India for a new $3.3 billion factory that will make the base substrates for its next generation of chips
- Subnautica 2's no-killing policy isn't because it's 'a game about pacifism', says design lead, but because players would 'master the crappy combat' over anything else
- Tryx claims 'world's first holographic liquid cooler' at Computex but I doubt it was much of a contest
- Crimson Desert takes around 250 hours to complete, and if that's not meaty enough for you, good news: DLC is coming
- Pearl Abyss heard you didn't like Crimson Desert's story, so it's fixing it to 'strengthen the narrative flow of Kliff's journey'
- MSI's Maestro 900R case is almost here. Tremble in fear, poor wallet
- Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards
- Corsair has shown off a military-themed PC case with fighter jet controls, and it's still not as over the top as its see-through PSU
- Nvidia may have announced the RTX Spark, but the first true Nvidia CPU for the PC could be coming in 2028
- Noctua's pumpless liquid cooler prototype is now 'neck and neck' with a normal AIO: successfully cools Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 230 W
- Asus is releasing 'mystery' mini loot boxes with the most peculiar little keycaps I've ever seen
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review (Acer Nitro)
June 1
- The League of Legends MMO adds another World of Warcraft vet to its team
- In 1997, Warren Spector told us the upcoming PC classic Deus Ex was inspired by Final Fantasy, Miyamoto, and 'the console guys'
- Guild Wars teaser has fans hyped up about a potential Guild Wars 3 announcement, and ArenaNet isn't outright denying it
- Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative
- Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games
- Every Daedric Artifact quest and location in Oblivion Remastered
- The cozy game launches of June are a really crafty bunch
- A Minecraft Movie Squared will explore 'new biomes, new characters, and new mobs' and confirms Matt Berry for a mystery role
- Asus has announced a gold-plated 82 g version of its Harpe II mouse with a 65K DPI, but it's way out of my budget
- Intel's attempting to break into the AI market once more, but this time avoiding Nvidia's dominance in training by going for inference
- The Backrooms film left me with more questions than answers and that's why it's the perfect adaptation
- Silver Pines is a gorgeous 2D Resident Evil-inspired metroidvania, with a dash of Twin Peaks, where I spent most of my time methodically stabbing monsters' shins
- Yet another rad gaming tool parts ways with Microsoft
- Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only
- As if ROG Astral 50-series graphics cards could get any beefier, Asus has just announced a CHONKY anniversary update
- MSI's new skinny two-in-one laptop has an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, which could make for some impressive gaming chops
- The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X has just received an upgraded OLED model in a bundle with AR glasses, and my wallet is thoroughly braced
- Patient gamers unite, as 25% of you only buy your games during Steam sales
- Former BioWare producer says we could be saved from a world where there's 'no AAA games that aren't live services' by looking to movies
- How to earn a Link Skill in Forza Horizon 6
- Tekken's game director follows in Harada's footsteps by saying sayonara to Bandai Namco, causing fans to worry about the game's future
- Where to find the Tokyo Tower in Forza Horizon 6
- AMD confirms that AM5 will continue to be supported by new processors through to 2029, and drop the deets on a forthcoming EXPO update
- Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
- 'Return of the king': AMD is bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for DDR4 platforms, launching it alongside the mid-range AM5 Ryzen 7 7700X3D
- A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning
- MSI announces the MEG Vision X2 AI Plus, a gaming desktop with an AI agent and a 'cylindrical display interface' built in
- After being shut down by Blizzard, one of WoW's biggest private servers is saying screw it, we'll make our own MMO
- AMD announces global rollout of the RX 9070 GRE, which is slower than the standard model for the same original MSRP
- Nvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model
- Minecraft's 3rd game drop of 2026 has been revealed, and its new biome automatically makes it the best one yet
- This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast
- Computex 2026 Live: The biggest PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show
- Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it's not far off
- Nvidia RTX Spark's gaming battery life will be 'better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops'
- Nvidia's working with all the anti-cheat vendors to make competitive games work on RTX Spark and WoA… just when gaming on Linux was looking good
- Nvidia sets out roadmap for RTX Spark, its new PC platform, which also gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs
- Developers are creating Arm game ports, wholly Arm-native versions, and Prism-optimised updates for Nvidia's RTX Spark
- The new animation for Warhammer 40,000's upcoming 11th edition goes incredibly hard
- Not just for AI agents: Nvidia's RTX Spark means Arm-powered laptops for gamers, too, promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest games
- Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders