Sorry, Switch fans. Nintendo has announced its first Switch Online game trial of 2026 for North America. It’s also apparently the first time a trial has been exclusive to the Switch 2. It’s EA Sports Madden NFL 26, which launched on the Switch 2 in August last year. This game trial is available between now…
Noclip’s documentary about the making of Hades is a favorite of mine, but their current series on Disco Elysium is shaping up to be another all-timer. The third episode is out now, and while the first two dealt with the foundation of Za/um as a collective and how the setting of Elysium evolved through tabletop…
Plans for a new Ecco the Dolphin game were quietly revealed last May, in addition to remasters of the 1992 original and its sequel Tides of Time. At the time a website was launched bearing a 8,500 hour countdown. Andy Chalk did the maths way back then, and figured out that the countdown would end…
I’m pretty heavily Steam-pilled at this point. When I want to play a game and it comes out on a platform other than Steam, I always sigh dramatically and mutter a curse under my breath. That’s because now I have to download or at least update some other launcher, try to remember whatever the hell…
A “shared commitment” to improve player safety. In 2020, the major players in the console space Nintendo, Sony and Xbox announced a “shared commitment to safer gaming” to “improve player safety” across each platform. Fast forward to this year, and these shared principles have now been updated to ensure they represent the “constant efforts” to…
As survivors of the zombie apocalypse trudge into your military outpost, one by one, they wearily submit to your examinations in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check. Examine their eyes, their lungs, and their skin for any signs of the zombie virus—but don’t forget to look deeper, too. A lot deeper. One of the tools you’re…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. My first job covering videogames was a mid-2000s internship at a website dedicated to cheat codes, tips, and walkthroughs. My…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. My first job covering videogames was a mid-2000s internship at a website dedicated to cheat codes, tips, and walkthroughs. My…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Welcome to the first FOV 90 of 2026. In this quiet period for games, I…
Hytale lets you scrape by for a while without demanding any specific logs from its wealth of biomes, but that lax lumberjack approach comes screeching to a halt when you’re tasked with finding Azure Logs. The basic crafting rule is no longer “any log will do the trick,” and you’ll need these specific blue-grained logs…