2026

As another month goes by, another mountain of evidence is collected suggesting that robots are just like us: dumb as hell and bad at everything. Whether demonstrating martial arts, cutting a rug on the dance floor, or attempting to delight people on the ground with an aerial lightshow, May was another busy month for robots…

Once upon a time I was a creator of Sims. A moulder of virtual people. Pushing and pulling at sliders to contort pixels like putty, perfectly preening them with makeup and hairstyles and outfits that would compliment the personalities I had invented for them. As I grew older, something shifted. An internalised domestication that suddenly…

Bungie revealed Season 2 of Marathon earlier this week, and it’s already given players the headlines for its upcoming reset. Marathon is getting a new map, a new defence-focussed shell, a new runner upgrade system, and a free week for players who didn’t jump aboard for Season 1 to try the game out for themselves….

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: 007: Nightfire review – PC Gamer issue #107 (US, February 2003) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and newly taken screenshots. By Chuck Osborn (Image credit: EA) It’s an irony that only a master criminal…

I knew something had to give, but I never realized just how fatigued I was with Final Fantasy 14’s current state until I walked out of the Anaheim Convention Center last month after Fan Fest. Years of rigid adherence to aging systems and its predictable patch structure were finally catching up to me. My favorite…

Surprise, surprise. Our quizzes on the RPG that swept awards shows all through 2023 (and even into 2024) continue to be some of our most popular. Baldur’s Gate 3 really left an impression on everyone, and even after finishing up our quiz on the final act, I’m already thinking about how I’ll revisit the series…

As part of a talk highlighted in the 2026 GDC Trends Report, Playstack head of discovery Patrick Johnson explained how the indie publisher got in on the ground floor with PCG’s 2024 game of the year, Balatro. There’s no shortcut or sexy secret, though, just putting in boring work with a dose of good old-fashioned…

Back in January, Terraria finally received its gargantuan 1.4.5 patch. Three years in the making, 1.4.5 was supposed to be the final update for the long-running, massively successful survival-crafting game. But it turns out that developer Re-Logic is terrible at making final updates, having committed to at least one further major patch in the future…