August 2025

Elden Ring Nightreign’s latest update brought many great things with it: a new Everdark boss (Augur), highly anticipated duo expeditions, and a brilliant new relic sorting system. But something rather unexpected also came with: whispers of upcoming (unannounced) Nightreign content. After the recent patch, dataminers got to work sifting through files to see if there…

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it’s bad. Do you ever wish everyone in our hobby were more angry about something that grinds your gears? For me, it’s the…

If you’ve got enough money in your pocket to buy a Double Whopper combo but you’re not feeling especially hungry right now, I’ve got a good alternative plan for getting rid of it: Humble Bundle’s “Play the Legends” collection of Warner Bros. games, which includes 16 really good games (well, 15, plus Suicide Squad) for…

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Forget letter grades, numbers, stars, and percentages: No metric for evaluating videogames has ever matched what Chet Faliszek and Erik…

Superheroes so rarely feel right in modern videogames. The spandex-clad stars of my favourite comics don’t grind for endgame loot, they don’t waste their time on pointless sidequests, and they don’t fight the same grey robots over and over. Heading into my first hands-on with Marvel Cosmic Invasion, I knew it’d be a good 2D…

Stop it. Stop it! Stop it! I live in launcher Hell. In my taskbar, unfamiliar and unwelcome guests jostle each other in an endless horrible party: the Epic Game Store, Ubisoft Connect (which we all still call Uplay), Battle.net, the hated EA App, the Rockstar Social Club, the Paradox Launcher. I did not invite them…

The more I look at the word ‘gripes’, the less it looks right. Nevertheless, we’re running through our PC gaming gripes all week. Since I’ve been building gaming PCs pretty much non-stop this year, I feel like I’ve got at least a few bones to pick with components and how they slot together. Before I…