A website from horror game purveyors Bloober Team with a bizarre url surfaced near the end of 2025: remosdneulserorehsoovamceyerd.com. The page had an image of a bloody rose, a countdown to Valentine’s Day, and a cryptic quote. Bloober had been awfully busy up to that point, fresh off Cronos: The New Dawn and still working…
It’s become something of a meme to think of social media as a digital skinner box, but is that enough to warrant action against it? The European Commission seems to think so, as it announced that ubiquitous short form video app TikTok is “in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design,” in…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every Saturday to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “how tidy is your desktop?” and “what game will you never uninstall?” John Romero is the co-creator of legendary first-person shooters Wolfenstein…
Designed the Master System, Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast. Hideki Sato, the legendary hardware designer behind Sega’s most popular consoles, has passed away. He was 75. Sato joined Sega in 1971, and was first involved with the company’s arcade business. He would find fame within the firm’s domestic hardware division, designing the SG-1000, Master System, Mega…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! As I noted in our review, Mewgenics has a very particular tone—and frankly, it…
I visited the Monster Hunter bar in Tokyo last year and was amazed at the detail of some of the props and recreated armour sets around the entire place. But nothing in that bar impressed me as much as the fact someone is creating an entire, lifesize Seikret as a cosplay. Character Select Welcome to…
Head to Johto. On 27th February, Pokémon turns 30, and in honour of this momentous anniversary, we’re running a series of polls leading up to the big day, asking you to vote for your favourite Pokémon from each generation. The nine winners will then go head-to-head in a final poll at the end of the…
It’s a testament to the quality and inventiveness of Absolum that it stood out as strongly as it did when it released in October last year, a month that also brought us Battlefield 6, Bloodlines 2, and a little game called Arc Raiders. Absolum’s roguelite twist on a classic beat ’em up format was exactly…
Adding a rearview mirror to a first-person shooter might sound like a daft gimmick, but as PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield discovered three years ago, the defining mechanic of Hellscreen is anything but: “You have a mini, lower-res screen in the upper quadrant of your view at all times, and can blow it up and shrink…
Who cares for The Last Caretaker? Channel 37, that’s who! The Finnish developer— cofounded by the creators of the Trials series—has been diligently maintaining its oddball survival sim since it splashed into Steam early access last year. The game, which sees you play as a robot tasked with saving the human race by artificially growing…