How well do you know your videogame goblins? We’re giving the most underappreciated monsters around their due in our latest quiz

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. Not enough respect is given to the humble videogame goblin. More than just a level 1 enemy for you to…

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Before The Witcher 3 launched, CD Projekt was terrified that Batman: Arkham Knight would flatten it with its Batmobile: ‘They’re just gonna roll over us’

When The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released in 2015, its success was so overwhelming that it’s hard to imagine it would have gone any other way. But from CD Projekt’s perspective, success seemed far from certain in the runup to launch. In particular, the Polish studio was deeply concerned about competition from another game…

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Fancy playing Sea of Thieves without the PvP? This pirate-themed survival game just left early access with a big update and a launch discount

Released just as the survival craze was really kicking into high gear, Salt was a quietly enjoyable survival game about sailing through a virtual archipelago in your own personal pirate ship. It didn’t break through in the same way as Subnautica and Raft did, perhaps because it was a little rough around the edges—particularly visually….

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One of Elden Ring’s best overhaul mods just received a massive update that adds fully functional multiplayer

One of the earliest and most ambitious mods for Elden Ring, which revised and remixed its core systems to facilitate more tailored runs through The Lands Between, has just got a huge overhaul. Elden Ring: Reforged adds a vast array of new features like difficulty modes, runeforging, new combat mechanics like deflection and ducking, new…

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That weird Pac-Man metroidvania just got a big update, adding a new mode that ‘significantly lowers the difficulty of combat and exploration’

Part of me still believes Shadow Labyrinth is some sort of collective hallucination brought on by humanity’s overconsumption of digital cherries, as the idea of a grimdark Metroidvania starring Pac-Man is just too ludicrous to comprehend. Nonetheless, the trailer, the Steam page, and our own Shadow Labyrinth Review all point to this being a real…

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