2025

Few games enjoy such a long stay in the conversation as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one of the biggest and most celebrated fantasy RPGs ever released. And release it did, again and again—but it’s hard to blame Bethesda for all those re-releases. The game’s community is so enthusiastic that modders are practically making entire…

The last major update to Helldivers 2, Into the Unjust, caused all sorts of performance problems that developer Arrowhead said were a result of unaddressed technical debt. As the game grew in size and complexity, it became increasingly unstable, and Arrowhead said in September that it had plans to address it. Arrowhead dropped a new…

As marketing bonanzas go, Steam Next Fest has a special place in my heart. A fancy trailer is nice and all, but these are videogames we’re talking about—let me play them! I’ve already dipped my toe into this round of demos with the surprisingly fun Bubsy 4D, but there’s plenty more on offer. A peek…

The original Fallout’s lead developer Tim Cain has dropped another in his long-running series of videos discussing the earliest games in the series, and with this one, he’s definitively answered one of the big questions about how everything kicked off. Well, kinda. Cain’s latest video is called “Non-expository Fallout lore” and opens with some necessary…

World of Warcraft will strip away mods, or addons, with the ability to process information in combat when the upcoming Midnight expansion releases. And that idea is now changing many core aspects of the game, its director says. In an exclusive PC Gamer interview, senior game director Ion Hazzikostas says that over the years, the…

The next Magic: The Gathering set is far from the caverns of Ixalan and the grottos of Theros—indeed, it’s set somewhere beneath the storm drains of New York City. As Wizards of the Coast announced Friday, it’s a crossover with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themselves. Universes Beyond might be something of a contentious talking…

If you’ve noticed that jumping around in Battlefield 6 with your knife or the repair tool out led to some sluggish movement, that should be fixed now. The Battlefield Comms X account sent out a post yesterday that a fix was rolled out addressing “an issue where jump momentum gets unintentionally interrupted when jumping with…

I think most people would agree that it takes a long while to level up in Battlefield 6, making the task of reaching the max level a daunting prospect. Thankfully, you’ll unlock heaps of guns, gadgets, and even cosmetics as you level up, so there’s plenty of breadcrumbs to keep you going. Nevertheless, if you’ve…