I still regularly think about the 2018 text adventure game You Are Jeff Bezos, which confronts you with how colossal an amount of money Bezos’s $156 billion net worth really was, and how much good it could do if it wasn’t hoarded by an individual. (Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion). It’s a…

Remember some years back when the US Army formed an esports team to be more hip with the youths, and then tried its hand at streaming and was promptly bullied off of Twitch—not just once, but twice? You might have expected that to be the end of it, and in some ways it was: The…

It’s almost Christmas! Okay, maybe not quite just yet, but now’s a good time to open up your heart (and your wallet) and start stocking up on the best gifts for PC gamers. And who better to assist you than the team here at PC Gamer? Why are we qualified to tell you what gifts…

Today, I have a new favorite phrase: “Adversarial poetry.” It’s not, as my colleague Josh Wolens surmised, a new way to refer to rap battling. Instead, it’s a method used in a recent study from a team of Dexai, Sapienza University of Rome, and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies researchers, who demonstrated that you can…

If you’ve ever been obsessed with a co-op game, you know the hardest part of playing one: convincing your good-for-nothing friends to buy a copy and join the fun. I have great news for you if you’ve ever experienced this particular pain point with Warhammer Vermintide 2—the game is free to own on Steam until…

2025 has been a shockingly great year for games, but as we at PC Gamer began work on our GOTY list, we realized that a lot of us hadn’t enjoyed the same great games. My tastes as a PC gamer tend toward the crusty and obscure, and I always want to celebrate the games whose…

I’m afraid it’s that time again when I have to break out a bowl of genre word salad. Brace yourself. Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road is a survival, resource-gathering, tower defence, roguelike, city-builder, Vampire Survivors-like. Phew. (Image credit: Ludogram) Ok, now that’s out of the way, we can break down what that actually means….

Hytale is saved, yes, but there’s still a long way to go. The ambitious Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG was canceled by Riot after developers “couldn’t bring Hytale to life in a way that truly delivered on its promise,” , and its new goal is to deliver “the original vision for Hytale,” from before it turned into…