April 2026

Gabe Newell remains the CEO of Valve, but it’s no secret that he stepped back from actively running the company some time ago: he says himself he’s been “retired for a long time.” Newell now divides his days between various other pursuits, including Starfish Neuroscience, a company he co-founded that focuses on neural interfaces, and…

On leaving Tango Gameworks in 2023 industry legend Shinji Mikami started up a new development studio called Unbound. This was the third studio Mikami has co-founded or founded, after PlatinumGames (2007) and Tango itself (2010), not to mention his leadership of Capcom’s iconic Production Studio 4 and later Clover Studios. Unbound was recently in the…

Marathon’s Outpost map is an extraction masterclass, in large part due to how the central Pinwheel location lulled players in with the promise of loot. However, it wasn’t without its issues: the Destroyed Wing entrance had to be disabled shortly after it launched, and it was overall too easy to break in once players had…

The cozy games launching in April are almost unanimously chilled out. It’s really feeling like groundhog day around here because somehow the extra six weeks of winter aren’t over. I’ve dragged PC Gamer’s cozy gaming collective out of their burrows to curate the cozy games of April calendar and tell you a little about what…

Stormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched into early access in 2024 and hit 1.0 a year later, is ending support for online play at the end of April because Hathora, which provides server functionality for the game, has been purchased by an AI company. There’s a chance that online play could be restored at some…