July 12, 2026

As reported by WCCFtech, the Dutch consumer organization Stichting Massaschade & Consument now believes it has an even stronger case in its €400 million ($457 million) lawsuit against Sony over the 30% rate it charges on every game sold through the PlayStation Store, a “Sony tax” that retail games are not subject to⁠—the same retail…

First spotted by Kotaku, prolific director Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Interstellar) recently gave his takes on AI in filmmaking and the explosive success of Backrooms in an interview with The Telegraph (readers may encounter a paywall). The interview comes as part of the lead up to Nolan’s next film, an adaptation of the Homeric epic, the…

From the archives: This feature was originally published in PC Gamer #302 (UK, March 2017). You can still subscribe to PC Gamer to get new issues of the magazine (in print!) every month. My playthrough of the first game was more disaster than Dishonored. At the time, I didn’t quite grasp that slitting every throat…

As reported by Massively OP, senior developers at ZeniMax Online Studios said that the company has returned to its circa 2015-2018 headcount, before it staffed up for the development of canceled MMO Blackbird. The estimate is similar to one recently proffered by id Software in a statement on X, “The Everything App.” Unofficial Elder Scrolls…

We’re officially seven months into 2026. First of all, what the hell? I don’t know about you, but it feels like this year has absolutely whizzed by despite… not a whole lot happening. Apart from, y’know, an insane number of layoffs and the industry slowly crumbling while a giant GTA 6-shaped asteroid slowly approaches. Critical…

In case you haven’t heard, Sony recently announced that it will stop producing physical game discs come 2028—a move PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon argued continues a trend of consoles turning into little more than worse PCs. But Daniel Ahmad, a videogame market analyst and director of research and insights at Niko Partners, argued in a…

Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Christoffer Bodegård got into PC gaming via a DOS machine inherited from his father. “The Swedish state had a thing where basically everybody got a computer, especially state employees,” says Bodegård. The first game he played on it was Disney’s The Jungle book, which he recalls as being “pretty hard”….

What’s old is new in League of Legends Classic, which was teased a couple of weeks ago in the wake of leak after leak. The full reveal came during yesterday’s MSI Finals, where the mode debuted in a showmatch starring pros like Doublelift and Cpt Jack. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of different eras with a…