Crimson Desert dev Pearl Abyss has announced that its Charting the Unknown DLC will now release on October 29, two weeks on the dot after its original planned launch of October 15. After seven months of a blistering pace of updates for the singleplayer RPG, I feel like I speak for all (most?) of us…
User After-Cartoonist-196 on the German-language PCBaumeister subreddit claims to have bought a CPU secondhand, but that it carried the previous owner’s Valorant ban. Extreme surveillance measures have been adopted by esports devs in recent years to combat and punish endemic cheating in their games. Riot support allegedly told them this ban is now associated with…
As reported by MMORPG.com, developer Jagex has announced a new MMO follow-up to RuneScape with the working title “RuneScape 4.” The announcement came as part of Jagex’s yearly RuneFest convention being held this weekend. The announcement was accompanied by a brief teaser trailer showcasing the game’s art style, which builds on the recently-released Dragonwilds survival…
Mech’in a right fuss. Back in 2019, we reported that Super Fighter Team planned to localise the excellent tactical RPG Vixen 357 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, ending decades of Japanese exclusivity for the title. Developed by Career Soft – the same team behind Langrisser, Elthlead, Gaia no Monshou and Gaiflame – Vixen 357 originally…
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a decade since The Witcher 3 first released, and even harder to believe they found a way to make Geralt’s tub transformation even shinier. The seminal open world RPG’s hotly anticipated remaster has finally arrived, and it’s pulling people back into the Continent all these years later (now…
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The Cursed Apple, wherein Valve’s latest MOBA Deadlock takes place, is ‘an urban fantasy setting’ in the same way that Limp Bizkit is ‘an American rock band.’ Sure, the label is accurate, but Deadlock is unmistakably, crucially, and specifically New York the same way Fred Durst is sort of like the living avatar of Jacksonville,…
After putting together a list of some of the big, well-known games currently on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale, I asked the PC Gamer team for some deeper cuts—games they’re real sickos for, but that haven’t gotten enough love. Here’s what they brought to the table. The ones where you have to read (Image…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. WoW:…
Fingers crossed for a Kid Icarus revival. Back in August, we posed 64 gaming-related questions to Nintendo Life readers in our Switch 2 Summer Survey. Topics included gaming habits, thoughts on Switch 2 and its software lineup, how you buy games in 2026, and other questions covering how you get your daily dose of Nintendo…