August 2025

Less than a week after 18 protesters associated with activist group No Azure for Apartheid were arrested while protesting Microsoft’s dealings with the Israeli military, the group has staged a sit-in inside the office of Microsoft president Brad Smith. A report by The Verge says the building was subsequently locked down. The protesters recorded at…

Star Citizen is unique among videogames. It’s been in development for well over a decade—hell, it was a decade ago that Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, and Mark Hamill got on board—yet still has no release date. It’s also raised more than $858 million in crowdfunding (yeah, you read that right), yet the money is still…

PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said last year that Skate, the reboot of EA’s long-in-the-tooth skateboarding series, would “frontside pop shuvit” into early access in 2025. This annoyed me slightly, as he knew it would, because I didn’t know what a frontside pop shuvit is, or even if it was just something he made up to…

I’ve been playing Elden Ring Nightreign since it came out. I’ve killed ice dragons, flying centaurs, and a jellyfish god. What could be so hard about fighting a three-headed dog? Quite a lot, it turns out. The enhanced version of Nightreign’s first boss is easily one of the hardest fights in the game. When he’s…

Today is Tuesday, which means it’s been one week since the last time I (or one of my colleagues) opened the group work chat for PC Gamer dot com and asked, “Hey, is Steam down?” And if it’s a Tuesday, then the answer is always: Yes, Steam is down for its regularly planned maintenance. In…

If there were any concern that Alex Garland isn’t an Elden Ring fanboy, we now have evidence that the movie director is as devoted to FromSoftware’s 2022 epic as the rest of us. In addition to playing the game several times through, he was apparently so eager to make a live-action Elden Ring film that…

Most of the time, I’m an FPS guy: third-person shooters tend to lack the immersive qualities of first-person bang-bang, and the weird over-the-shoulder perspective makes aiming a headache (which I am sure has nothing to do with the fact that I don’t play many TPS games). But every now and then one comes along that’s…

The improbable has happened. Following a lukewarm reception to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s reveal, Activision is walking back its decision to carry forward all Black Ops 6 weapons and skins into the new game. While forward compatibility is generally a popular feature, this is really about Call of Duty’s uglification problem: Many weren’t…