By Charlotte Reber’s own admission, Dragon Age II is a somewhat counterintuitive choice for a Boss Fight book. After all, Dragon Age: Origins is the main famous, well-regarded game of the series, a fantasy epic role-playing game in the Bioware house style that takes place in an original fantasy setting. Reber’s book, while mostly…
If you’ve ever listened to a Black Library audiobook, or played a lot of Warhammer 40k games, you’ll know that it’s often hard to tell Space Marines apart based on just their voices. It’s something I’ve experienced frequently as an avid listener of 40k audiobooks—I stop paying attention for five seconds, and suddenly there are…
“Face the unknown,” reads the lone message of a new Helldivers 2 trailer published today. Helldivers 2’s next major update is coming August 12. The teaser is light on details, but it’s certainly illustrative of what Super Earth will be up against. We see a helldiving teddy bear being consumed by the void—a tear in…
Co-op puzzle game Big Walk launched yesterday, and it’s off to a great start: it peaked at nearly 50,000 concurrent players on Steam this morning, Steam reviews are “Very Positive,” and here at PC Gamer we’re all having a great time with it, too. There’s one issue, however, that shows up in pretty much every…
Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto 6, will hold its Q1 FY2027 results call on Friday, August 7, and I don’t mean to sound alarmist or over-excited but I think something might be happening. Allow me to explain. Part of my job involves listening in to quarterly investor calls, in case anything interesting is…
Every Wednesday, dive into the Indie Select Hub — your gateway to a fresh, curated indie collection plus four themed spotlights that rotate weekly! You can always find this collection hub in the XBOX Store and on XBOX.com/IndieSelects. The year is flying by, and summer has brought no shortage of standout games. With so many…
Marvel Rivals’ season 9.5 launches today, and it will be bringing with it magical supervillain and hooded cloak aficionado, The Hood, who’ll be appearing on August 7. Ahead of that, let’s dig into the patch notes. The gist of the season 9.5 adjustments is that most Vanguards have been buffed. Devil Dinosaur, Doctor Strange, Magneto,…
Standard or Collector’s Editions incoming. Along with a 2nd September release date for the digital version of Digital Sun’s Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault, a physical version from Silver Lining has been confirmed for Switch 2, PS5, and PC, coming on 13th November. As well as the Standard Edition, there’s naturally a Collector’s Edition with…
It seems nearly every conversation about PC gaming hardware comes back to the memory crisis, and that’s because it’s such an all-encompassing problem for the industry. Though we don’t appear to have a way out for the next year (at least), we’ve seen memory competition coming out of China, with Chinese company CXMT appearing to…
The shakeup at the top of the Assassin’s Creed food chain continued today with word that Eric Baptizat, the lead game designer on Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag and director of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, has returned to the company after several years away to become game director of the Assassin’s Creed brand. “Eric needs no…