2026

The CEO of MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says the studio now has “overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage” that torpedoed the game’s launch, and is pursuing legal action as a result. Unfortunately, the enduring impact of those underhanded actions means the studio is being forced to impose another round of layoffs….

It’s not just PC Gamer’s Elie Gould who loves the new Resident Evil. The ninth game in the series—not counting twice that number of spin-offs and remakes—has taken off like a rocket, selling more than five million copies since its release on February 27. Resident Evil Requiem had the series’ biggest-ever launch on Steam by…

I have no idea what to make of this, but more than two years after it was folded into Counter-Strike 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back on Steam. CS:GO was never fully scrubbed out of existence: Committed diehards could continue accessing the OG GO through a CS2 beta build, unceremoniously named “csgo_demo_viewer.” Online matchmaking was…

Deus Ex: Invisible War has its defenders, including PC Gamer’s own Joshua Wolens, but even the most stout-hearted of them would never go as far as saying it was a worthy sequel to the original. Where Deus Ex ripped up the rulebook and set an example that the immsim genre has struggled to replicate ever…

When World of Warcraft: Midnight players saw an NPC with an expensive painting for sale, they took it as a challenge. Blizzard developers love to sneak in secrets for people to try to solve and a 9,999,999 gold painting—the maximum amount of gold a single character can even have—was a clear tease for anyone who…

As my dapple grey Mongolian trudges through a foot of snow up the last hill into a remote mountain village, my character Naraa lifts her forearm to block the glare of the setting sun. For a moment, the shadows on the trails my horse’s hooves leave in the powder remind me of the same beautiful…

The long-rumored, many times-leaked Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake is official. Ubisoft dropped the confirmation in an email to press laying out the future of the Assassin’s Creed series, sandwiched between sparse details about a future co-op AC game and the upcoming Netflix show. “Speculation around Assassin’s Creed is not new, but it’s worth…

For nearly four years, my author bio on this website has informed you that Deus Ex: Invisible War was pretty good, actually. The much-maligned sequel to one of the greatest games of all time had its flaws in spades, I don’t deny that, but it kept enough of a beating imsim heart that my 13-year-old…