At 8:35 am Central Time on Friday, October 2, PC Gamer audience development manager Cameron Bald shared a Twitter post by fan account GTA 6 Countdown. Miami’s NBA basketball team, the Heat, is doing a cross-promotion event with Rockstar, “A Night in Vice City.” The team will temporarily rebrand, though from what I can tell…
We’re really rocketing toward the end of 2026, so before we’re crushed under the mountain of games releasing in October and that one game launching this November, lets’ take a moment to get caught up on what’s going on with Steam’s 20 most-wishlisted games. Is there hot news? Have release dates shifted? Have a few…
To most, the highlight of this week’s big Deadlock patch is the snazzy map makeover, new heroes, and tons of quality-of-life additions. To me, it’s all about the patch notes. I spend a lot of waking hours reading white-text-on-black-background changelogs in this line of work, so when a page comes along that was specifically designed…
I don’t typically have much love for billion-dollar corporations dropping the ‘meet our legal department’ hammer on no-budget modders who are just trying to exercise their creative muscles, but in this one instance I’m willing to let it slide: Bethesda has issued a cease-and-desist order to an “AI creator” who made a Fallout game set…
For a while now, AI guys have been arguing with the pope—Bishop of Rome, Primate of Italy, Chicago White Sox fan—over whether or not their chatbots and image generators are consistent with the will of the Lord, and in one recently-revealed exchange, whether making a computer talk constitutes creating life. According to a New York…
Doctors have confirmed it: It’s physically impossible for me to turn my nose up at a mecha action game. But despite this dire prognosis, I’ve been suspicious of Gundam Rogue Orbit—Bandai Namco’s mobile suit action game coming in spring—since it was announced back in June. The problem is the giant monsters. I’m a Gundam traditionalist….
After the monster success of Pokemon Red & Blue, Nintendo released Pokemon Yellow in 1998 to massive success. Almost 30 years later, it still remains as one of the best Game Boy games ever and a testament to the timeless RPG series Pokemon has become. A more polished version of the original games, Pokemon Yellow…
Kazutoki Kono: You’re welcome. Back in June, I asked the Ace Combat brand director, who’s been working on the series since 1997’s Ace Combat 2, if he’d ever gotten to strap into an F-16 and experience the real thrills of doing barrel rolls at 30,000 feet. “Unfortunately over the last 30 years of my career…
Another unexpected twist in the Bungle tale: After more than a decade of serving our players through the Bungie Store, we are retiring the current storefront for Bungie and Destiny related merchandise on October 19. We are building a new home for our merchandise that’s more aligned with our current goals and vision. We’ll…October 2,…
A scenic welcome to The Etchery School of Magic and Melody Musical magic-assisted gardening Crystal ball cell phones with Charlie Brown-style “wah wah wah” A flute rhythm game for mastering magic spells The fun and hectic potion brewing minigame My roommate’s disastrous magical experiments One very prickly shrub