Like a bunch of people, I’ve spent the last week trying out the new warlock class in Diablo 2 Resurrected. It’s pretty fun throwing fireballs and waves of flame around while a summoned buddy tanks all the damage for me. Or at least it was until I got to the Maggot Lair. And not long…
As well as praising Hitler and banging on about white genocide and creating naked images of actual women and children, apparently Grok can be a resource for answering questions about videogames. According to an investigation by Business Insider into what’s been going on at xAI since Elon Musk stopped being the de facto leader of…
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…
Doom the movie has a rating of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, which puts it on the same tier as Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and the Assassin’s Creed movie. Which is unfair. Assassin’s Creed was terrible because it thought it was clever, drily dumping conspiracy theory-history with a straight face, while Doom was gleefully dumb,…
The average PC gamer has to wrangle all sorts of different digital storefronts and launchers if they want to play games without leaving the house, and most of them truly suck. Steam’s UX is head and shoulders above the competition. But GOG has long been a valid contender—both with its DRM-free storefront focused on archaic…
Indie duo Talha & Jack Co are working on a disturbing, transgressive horror game in Abide, and they are keenly aware of the risks involved with such a project in today’s climate. “Horror seems to be under pressure from censorship, some subtle and some blatant,” The duo wrote on Abide’s Kickstarter page. “Sites are delisting…
Mark Frost’s The Greatest Game Ever Played tells the story of golf’s most legendary amateur, Francis Ouimet, whose victory in the 1913 U.S. Open stands as one of the most notorious upsets in the sport’s history. Legendary as it might be, that game was probably boring, that book is probably boring, and the Disney movie…
As if Los Santos and Blaine County weren’t already hostile enough, the latest survival mod to grace the murderous bounds of GTA 5 turns the actual map against us by way of an irradiated hellscape. Aptly named The Exclusion Zone, modder VelyXCore has rolled out a series of high-risk radioactive hotspots across the San Andreas…
There are few deckbuilding roguelikes more celebrated than Slay the Spire, which has ruled the genre roost since 2019 when it blew everyone away and got a 92% review from PC Gamer strategic director Evan Lahti. Its sequel where “everything is bigger” is releasing into early access March 6. Great news for the PC gamer…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. You,…