Ubisoft made another Avatar game the world has forgotten about, so I opened Pandora’s boxed copy and dropped into the jungle

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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To celebrate 2 years of Balatro, creator LocalThunk reflected on dropping out of an engineering program to make games: ‘Even if I could warn myself I’m not sure what I could have said to prepare for the insanity’

Even two years after release, Balatro is one of the biggest and best roguelikes going—there may be no one more keenly aware of that than developer LocalThunk, who’s managed to keep a low profile despite his game selling millions of copies and scoring crossover after crossover. In a recent anniversary blog post titled “Bad Grades,”…

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Interdimensional railway sim Voidtrain gets a patch that expands your inventory, a 50% discount and new DLC that’s free until Monday

Train survival games are all the rage in PC gaming right now, with Chris Livingston spying six railway-related survival sims arriving at platform PC in 2026. But these life-sustaining locomotives were all pulled onto the tracks by Voidtrain, a survival sim in which you drive an interdimensional train through a vast, eerie cosmos. While it…

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Heart of the Machine, the strategy game that lets you be the fun kind of evil AI, leaves early access in March with two possible endings: ‘One is focussed on committing ALL the war crimes’

One of the many things that annoys me about modern AI technology is if it did somehow destroy the world as its early boosters often (and bizarrely) claimed it might, it’s far more likely to do so by accident than design. There’d be no cannily launching a nuclear attack against Russia knowing that the counterattack…

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The Logitech Superstrike has allowed me to get excited over some genuinely new PC gaming technology for the first time in what feels like forever

Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Spending probably too much time in Counter-Strike 2 deathmatches and aim training maps. It’s all work, not pleasure, I assure you… Okay, maybe a little pleasure. The last couple of weeks have been such a deep breath of fresh air. It’s been nice to…

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Turn water into goo and yourself into a cloud in this fantasy adventure with 102 million spell combinations: ‘The core ethos when it comes to solving puzzles is to do it your way’

If you could have one magical power, what would it be? For me, it would be the ability to instantly fix anything. Washing machine broken? Zap! Not anymore. Boiler on the blink? Let’s Fantasia that shit. PC giving you some random error you’ve been struggling to solve all morning? Just point your finger at it…

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