Category: Games 6 Things Starting Adventurers Need to Relearn to Explore the Crimson Desert Jeff Rubenstein Published March 19, 2026 There’s a reason Crimson Desert has been generating so much attention – it presents an improbably huge, mind-bogglingly complex world, all while running like a dream. Crimson Desert players will find a number of familiar…
Caves of Qud is famously complex, simulating a surreal science-future where your player character can sprout new limbs at a moment’s notice, apes and crabs have shifting reputational dynamics with one another, and a concrete wall can gain full personhood through items that grants sentience. But in an interview with PC Gamer, Qud co-creator Brian…
After weeks of teasers, Marathon’s fourth map is right around the corner. No, like, for real this time: the Cryo Archive map option has appeared in Marathon with a countdown ending tomorrow, March 20. That’s the same time that its complicated ranked mode arrives. To commemorate the dogged community solving the Cryo Archive ARG, Bungie…
The last time I tried to solve a secret puzzle in World of Warcraft, it took me several hours and a few guide videos to figure it out. Things have escalated quite a bit since then because apparently Blizzard is making puzzles that span multiple expansions now. About a year ago, players figured out how…
Capcom CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto says PC will soon surpass consoles as “the world’s leading gaming platform”, and that it is already driving most of the publisher’s own game sales. The company’s latest annual report features some truly world-class management speak about things like Capcom’s “value creation strategy”, more charts than you can shake a stick…
Just four months after the last time it laid off a bunch of people, which occurred just three months after the time before that, which was just five months after the time before that, Crystal Dynamics has laid off 20 more people, “split between some development personnel and some central operations roles.” “As our current…
Fan casting is fun. For instance, who do you think would make a good Solid Snake in a Metal Gear Solid live-action film? Well, if you ask Reacher’s Alan Ritchson, his answer might be: Reacher’s Alan Ritchson. The extra-large action star sure seems to think he’d be a good fit for the role, as he…
2026 games: All the upcoming gamesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together Just four months after it was announced, Vampire Crawlers, the Vampire Survivors-spinoff card game described by PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon as “Wolverine for your social calendar,” has a release…
The key(ring) to success. McDonald’s marked the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie back in 2023 with a line of tie-in Happy Meal toys, so it will come as no surprise to hear that the fast food chain is doing the same for the sequel. The chain’s North American branch has today revealed a…
Counter-Strike 2 has released an update that makes one of the biggest changes in the game’s modern history: and no-one saw this one coming. Valve has changed how reloading works, so that when you reload, any ammo remaining in your current magazine is lost. And players are not happy. “When you reload in CS2, the…