It’s a scientifically proven fact that nothing good ever happens underwater, and that’s especially true in videogames. Subnautica, SOMA, Barotrauma, Iron Lung, the list goes on: Basically, if you’re in a videogame and you’re underwater, you’re in for a bad time. Which brings us to Siren’s Rest, the newly announced DLC for The Chinese Room’s…
GTA Online’s next major update is called Money Fronts, and it introduces a trio of new businesses that players can use to butter up their bottom line with some extra passive income. Landing on June 17, GTA Online’s latest update is all about empowering small businesses and supporting the local economy with a little bit…
(Image credit: Kong Orange, WiredFly) After yapping about nothing but videogames for three days at Summer Game Fest, I tried my best to talk about anything else, but I just couldn’t stop bringing up Out of Words. It’s a sidescrolling tale of young love brought to life by a charming handicraft world and striking stop-motion…
Sony has removed regional restrictions on at least four of its biggest games on Steam, making them available for purchase in dozens of countries where they were previously out of reach. The changes were noticed and shared by Wario64 on Bluesky, who said that four games—God of War Ragnarok, The Last of Us Part 2…
In order to save Overwatch’s friendly neighborhood robot Bastion from getting demolished every time he steps out of cover, hero designer Scott Kennedy made an unusual suggestion: shrink him. Smaller targets are harder to hit and that could be all it takes to keep him alive a little longer. After some internal testing, the decision…
The trend of the last decade is alive and well: Soulslikes are still all the rage. Even among the limited selection of demos at Summer Game Fest 2025, I saw numerous games that were either Souls down to their toes or took some degree of inspiration from them. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a self-described Soulslike action…
Nier: Automata producer Yosuke Saito and director Yoko Taro have both come out to deny a rumor about publisher Square Enix’s restrictions over the game’s character designs. A mistranslated English subtitle during a stream on Tuesday sparked news stories and social media posts suggesting that Nier: Automata had to adhere to Western standards to avoid…
Until now I couldn’t figure out why Hades, a game with 275,000 positive reviews piled up on Steam, didn’t grab me. Turns out it’s something fairly trivial: I dislike controlling a tiny character in an action game. Absolum takes the “die, retry” format of Hades—its own subgenre of roguelike at this point—and blends it with…
It has not been smooth sailing for Bungie’s Marathon reboot since it was revealed in March 2023 with a stylish but ultimately empty teaser. After two years of questions and uncertainty, PC Gamer’s resident Bungie whisperer Tim Clark declared it “definitely good” after getting hands-on time with it in April. But he had significant concerns…
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