2025

World of Warcraft’s upcoming Midnight expansion recently went into its first alpha phases of testing, and Blizzard has chosen to give an unprecedented number of players access to a dramatically early phase of development. That’s not surprising, as the company is enacting one of the most significant shakedowns of the player experience ever implemented in…

Reviews for A Minecraft Movie were a bit mid, as PC Gamer’s resident movie pro Chris Livingston put it, and that 47% critics consensus tells no lies. But the people loved it, and there was never any real question that it would get a sequel once that record-setting opening weekend hit. In fact, it was…

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: getting stuck into Battlefield 6, testing out weapons and all the new maps. This week I’ve been: observing Battlefield 6’s bots in the natural habitat, feeling a lot like David Attenborough. During my many hours putting Battlefield 6 through its paces in early access,…

This week, the first season pass arrived for the recently-reborn Skate in an update that—as a quick glance at the Skate subreddit will tell you—isn’t being received very well, with players complaining that a spattering of superficial challenge additions are being used to justify a pile of new microtransactions. The most reviled among Skate’s new…

Two years after the release of Cities: Skylines 2, and more than a year after it was originally supposed to arrive, the big Bridges and Ports expansion is finally almost here. Paradox and Colossal Order announced today that the big, twice-delayed DLC will finally go live on October 29. Bridges and Ports was originally expected…

The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits expansion takes the hassle out of micromanaging households by introducing its new Getaway system, which adds custom venues, daily schedules, and roles tailored to each Sim. It makes it easy to set ’em and forget ’em, and just like brainstorming small business ideas in Businesses & Hobbies, so much of…

For better and for worse, consumable XP boosts return in Battlefield 6. Activate one in the top right of the multiplayer menu, and you can double your account XP for a set amount of time—either 15, 30, or 60 minutes a pop. The timer on XP boosters stacks, meaning you can activate multiple boosters at…