November 26, 2025

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. Three months after being sued by the parents of a teenager whose suicide was allegedly encouraged…

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. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it—or at least that’s what my history teacher always said. (Yet…

The end of the year is hurtling toward us like a rampaging sandworm that devours time, and that means every game you own is currently pitching you hard to vote for them in the Steam Awards. And not just the new releases, either—thanks to a category called “Labor of Love,” you can nominate games that…

Baldur’s Gate 3 is well over two years old and its developer is no longer making major content additions, but its players are still finding fresh and exciting ways to crack open its ruleset towards their own gamebreaking ends. This week, as spotted by GamesRadar, BG3 have found a way to recruit a fighting force…

Earlier this year, we relayed a story about how Janet Jackson’s song Rhythm Nation just so happened to include the resonant frequency of 5,400 RPM 2.5-inch hard drives commonly used in laptops for many years. When played on (or even near) those laptops, the song would cause the drives to malfunction—and it was such a…

If you haven’t heard, Steam is having a Black Friday sale for the first time ever. Yep, despite hosting nonstop sale events all year along, this is the first one formally branded around post-Thanksgiving consumerism. It’s not one of Steam’s “big” sales of the year—the kind that takes over the entire store page and gives…

Two months ago, storied shooter studio Splash Damage parted ways with Tencent and ended up in the hands of private equity investors. I said at the time that it probably wasn’t a good development, and I wish I’d been wrong but I was right: The studio said today that it is “entering a studio-wide consultation…

Look at any of a number of Steam store pages—Arc Raiders, for instance—and you’ll see a fairly prominent “AI generated content disclosure” laying out which parts of the game make use of AI generated content. Go to the Epic Games Store, however, and you’ll see nothing of the sort. And that’s a difference that’s not…

The big renaissance for life sims that I was expecting this year hasn’t happened, thanks in part to a sudden delay for Paralives that was announced a couple weeks back. To ease the sting of delaying just a few weeks ahead of its intended launch, the Paralives team did show off 45 minutes of new,…

We first noticed that the Arc Raiders servers were down this morning at around 10:30 am Pacific time, but that’s not the end of it. Downdetector has seen a spike in reports from users who are having trouble accessing Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, Rocket League, Dead by Daylight, PSN, Xbox Live, Elden Ring, Battle.net,…