Former Bethesda marketing VP says he fought against reusing the Prey name for Arkane’s 2017 immersive sim: ‘I definitely pissed some people off internally over that’

Arkane’s 2017 immersive sim Prey is a genuinely great videogame, with a genuinely weird name—shared with a pre-existing shooter and a famously cancelled sequel that it has absolutely nothing to do with. Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio said a few years ago that he really did not want to call it Prey, and it turns out…

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Starfield fans are pretty sure Bethesda just dropped the first teaser for the game’s second expansion: ‘We look forward to the adventures yet to come’

Hard to believe but it’s been two years since Bethesda unleashed Starfield onto the world, a sci-fi epic that—to torque a metaphor—didn’t quite achieve escape velocity. Updates have followed at something of a ponderous pace, but there’s been no sign of the second expansion that was promised more than a year ago. But now that…

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Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry’s extraordinarily hyped sequel

At time of writing, it has been 2,395 days since Silksong was first announced on February 14, 2019. In the years since, spanning stretches of developer silence and shifting release windows, the Hollow Knight sequel was steadily warped into an inscrutable object of collective fascination. Silksong was less an upcoming game than it was a…

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Randy Pitchford shares thoughts on the Stop Killing Games campaign, gets very existential: ‘It’s so sobering to think about the fact that everything will end. Not just us, but literally everything, and I kind of hate that’

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford was recently asked about his thoughts on the Stop Killing Games initiative, and as is his wont, he went deep. Heavy. A little sideways. But he was also a lot more thoughtful on the topic, in his own unique way, than you might expect. Also, Battleborn was mentioned. Stop Killing Games…

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Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted to direct the Call of Duty movie, but Activision didn’t want to give up creative control: ‘Imagine turning down the guy who made Saving Private Ryan’

Three days ago Paramount announced that it had signed a deal with Activision “to bring the iconic Call of Duty universe to life on the big screen.” The breathless press release promised something for fans and newcomers alike, though gave no indication of when and where in the series’ convoluted timeline (which spans everything from…

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Caput Mortem review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? A medieval horror game with delightfully wonky controlsRelease date August 27, 2025Expect to pay £9.99/ $11.99Developer WildArts GamesPublisher Black Lantern CollectiveReviewed on RX 9070 XT, Intel Core i5 12600K, 32GB RAMMultiplayer No Steam Deck Not verified Link Steam First-person horror game Caput Mortem is another reminder that “good” controls…

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