2025

On September 11, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union Juliane Kokott issued an opinion requesting a preliminary ruling from the Tax Disputes Commission under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on a case concerning that most fundamental financial quandary with which all states, federations, and empires in their might…

Boomstock is here, baby, and if you are now wondering, “What is Boomstock?” I am happy to explain: It’s “a celebration of booming and shooting,” with new game announcements, updates, demos, and a very nice Steam sale on retro-inspired shooters. Earlier this year we rang up a list of 10 essential boomer shooters that every…

Only last week, Palworld developer Pocketpair announced that the hit survival game, which remains in early access, would be going quiet as it prepared for a full launch in 2026. Well well well… it looks like someone had a surprise up their sleeve, because today brought the announcement of an unexpected crossover, albeit with scant…

A new Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix is live today, and it’s good news for Steam Deck fans: The update features a new native Steam Deck build, which Larian says will deliver “more stable framerate, lower loading times, and smoother gameplay” on Valve’s portable platform. Until now, Baldur’s Gate 3 made use of the Proton compatibility…

A new Painkiller was announced back in March, teasing just enough to make me think that after years of bad sequels, well, maybe this time they’d get it right. Today, Anshar Studios and 3D Realms dropped a new trailer revealing the “Rogue Angel” game mode, and it teases just enough to make me think, well,…

Did you know that there’s a whole range of Warhammer TTRPGs out there, covering all of Games Workshop’s core settings? You can read all about them right here on PC Gamer, in fact. But now, thanks to Humble Bundle, you can also get started with almost all of the current range in one go for…

Phoenix Point is one of the X-COM tree’s most interesting branches. Where Firaxis created a modern, flashy, accessible variation of the original X-COM, the series creator, Julian Gollop, took a different approach. Phoenix Point maintained the original’s complexity, elevated the strategic side of things dramatically and gave us tactical battles built on a detailed physics…

A new study out of MIT offers a first-of-its-kind large-scale computational analysis exploring the how and why of folks falling for AI chatbots. The research team dove into subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, a community of folks that sometimes ironically, sometimes more seriously refer to AI bots like ChatGPT as their romantic other half. The team found that…