January 2026

Palworld’s 1.0 release is coming up soon. Well that could be wishful thinking: it’ll be available to play sometime this year. But after two years in early access there’s nothing but excitement for this next step. And to celebrate the lead up to 1.0 and the two-year anniversary Pocketpair has released some concept art of…

Relatively low-end GPUs with outsized coolers have always been a bit silly. But now it seems they’re making it easier to scam gamers. A Redditor claims to have bought an Asus RTX 5080 from an Amazon Prime listing, only to find an Asus RTX 5060 Ti in the box. Yuck. Part of the problem, very…

The Pathologic series has a reputation for being mechanically challenging, narratively dense, and positively grim. As you’d expect from games about surviving in a plague-ridden turn-of-the-century Russian steppe town, inspired by the most dour of classical Russian theatre. What I did not expect from Pathologic 3 is how often I would be laughing out loud,…

I like survival games because they let me live out my fantasy of leaving the computer behind forever and building a log cabin out in the woods all by my lonesome. No internet, no noisy eaters, just peace. Because isolation is so core to my dream, I rarely partake in MMOs, but Pax Dei’s free…

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is, you may have heard, the 40th best videogame you can play right now. Ask certain incredibly cool members of the PC Gamer team and they might even tell you it’s actually higher than that. But it’s also not a super difficult game—it’s fairly easy to assemble a party that…