February 1, 2026

Early access MMO Ashes of Creation has reportedly ceased development, and the entire team behind it at Intrepid Studios has been laid off. With nearly $3.3 million raised in a 2017 campaign, Ashes of Creation was the crowdfunding platform’s most successful MMO fundraiser, and one of its most successful videogame campaigns overall. On Saturday, January…

Helldivers 2’s gleefully unsubtle satire of American jingoism begins mere moments after you launch the game, as the community-named John Helldiver’s squeaky-clean suburban life is torn apart in front of him by a giant insect. “You could be next,” he warns. “That is, unless you make the most important decision of your life.” Millions of…

If you’re a fan of Iron Lung, the indie horror game from Dusk creator David Szymanski, you may want to get used to hearing the following five words: “You mean the Markiplier movie?” YouTube phenom Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach’s long-awaited film adaptation of the 2022 sub sim has finally hit theaters, and it’s already made an…

Best of the best (Image credit: Rockstar) 2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard…

Guild Wars might look indistinct among the many MMOs that arrived in the wake of World of Warcraft’s genre-defining heyday, but it has relatively little in common with WoW or even EverQuest, the Iron Age big dog in the massively multiplayer space. It’s a unique blend of deckbuilding and ARPG-esque adventuring where you can team…

Every Fallout game is meaningfully different from the last, and the series includes some of the best games you’ll ever play. It’s an easy recommendation to anyone with a passing interest in computer roleplay, and even easier now that you can get every game in the series (including the black sheep, Tactics) along with a…

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. I play far too many games with a competitive ranked mode. I’m not sure why I subject myself to the…

Unfortunately, you can’t tell the story of Rust without including its “cheat community,” which Facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane once said routinely harasses and threatens the game’s developers when it’s not, you know, cheating. The latest measure the studio is taking to keep up with cheat makers is one you’ll find familiar if you’ve tried to…

Yes, I know the game is 13 years old at this point and old enough to have a social media account, but just in case: spoilers for BioShock Infinite’s story below. You’ve been warned! It’s been a hot sec since I played BioShock Infinite now, but I’ll never forget hearing the crooning of “I may…