I’m pretty heavily Steam-pilled at this point. When I want to play a game and it comes out on a platform other than Steam, I always sigh dramatically and mutter a curse under my breath. That’s because now I have to download or at least update some other launcher, try to remember whatever the hell…
A “shared commitment” to improve player safety. In 2020, the major players in the console space Nintendo, Sony and Xbox announced a “shared commitment to safer gaming” to “improve player safety” across each platform. Fast forward to this year, and these shared principles have now been updated to ensure they represent the “constant efforts” to…
As survivors of the zombie apocalypse trudge into your military outpost, one by one, they wearily submit to your examinations in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check. Examine their eyes, their lungs, and their skin for any signs of the zombie virus—but don’t forget to look deeper, too. A lot deeper. One of the tools you’re…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. My first job covering videogames was a mid-2000s internship at a website dedicated to cheat codes, tips, and walkthroughs. My…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. My first job covering videogames was a mid-2000s internship at a website dedicated to cheat codes, tips, and walkthroughs. My…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Welcome to the first FOV 90 of 2026. In this quiet period for games, I…
Hytale lets you scrape by for a while without demanding any specific logs from its wealth of biomes, but that lax lumberjack approach comes screeching to a halt when you’re tasked with finding Azure Logs. The basic crafting rule is no longer “any log will do the trick,” and you’ll need these specific blue-grained logs…
Here are the full details! As you’ve likely seen by now, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 Update has officially gone live. Alongside this new update, Nintendo has now shared the patch notes on its support page. This includes not only general updates (including “new content and features”) for the Switch 2 and Switch versions,…
The God of War TV series being developed for Prime has found its Kratos, and it’s a very interesting choice. The title role has gone to Ryan Hurst, known for his work on shows including Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead, as well as his portrayal of Thor in God of War: Ragnarok. It’s…
EB Games will close all 38 of its New Zealand outlets by the end of January following a “multimillion-dollar loss during the 2024 fiscal year”. In an internal memo seen by RNZ, the retailer’s New Zealand managing director, Shane Stockwell, told employees the decision was made after “significant and repeated efforts to turn the business…