Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
Far from the deserts of the Mojave and SoCal, Fallout 3 takes place in the shadow of a striking image: the United States Capitol building, partially blown to chunks in an abandoned, irradiated mire. The team working on the game at Bethesda was based in Rockville, a short jaunt from Washington, so they got a…
The latest game to announce that it’s being delisted from Steam is Transformers: Battlegrounds, which is the victim of a licensing agreement coming to an end. To soften the blow, it’s on sale for 90% off until it gets removed at the end of the month. Transformers: Battlegrounds is basically XCOM for kids who watch…
If you’ve played New Vegas, you’re familiar with Caesar’s Legion. Slavedriving, overtly fascistic, and wrapped in the aesthetics of the Roman Empire—but with football pads instead of lorica segmentata. It seems like the kind of faction that would be hard to present as anything but one-dimensional, abject evil. As it turns out, giving the faction’s…
God, I am growing so weary of AI. Glints of human creation chipped away at with “just a loading screen” here, or “just a couple voicelines” there. Flaws and oddities that aren’t the result of a person’s error, but a computer that doesn’t understand what or why it’s wrong in the first place. This year,…
I’ve always admired people who make their own costumes. Even when it’s for something as simple as a Halloween party, if someone’s gone an extra step to create something from scratch specifically for their costume, it just shows that little bit of extra creativity and dedication. That’s something I tend to lack. A lot of…
I’ve always admired people who make their own costumes. Even when it’s for something as simple as a Halloween party, if someone’s gone an extra step to create something from scratch specifically for their costume, it just shows that little bit of extra creativity and dedication. That’s something I tend to lack. A lot of…
Hollywood is one of the most prolific film production hubs in the world. Over the years, it has been the birthplace of some of the biggest box-office hits and critically acclaimed movies. From superhero flicks to eternal classics, some special movies have expanded beyond the limits of big screens and home televisions. An example of this is…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! Patch 7.4 hit Final Fantasy 14 earlier this week, bringing a conclusion to the…
It’s been a hell of an award season for the year’s most talked about RPG, but two of its accolades just got knocked off the scorecard. The Indie Game Awards, which awarded Sandfall Interactive with Game of the Year and Best Debut Game on Dec 18, posted a video to Bluesky yesterday explaining that the…