PC Gaming
After two incredibly successful beta weekends, Battlefield 6 is hot on the horizon. While the BF6 beta challenges already gave us plenty of exclusive rewards to grind for that carry over into the full game, EA has just launched the Road to Battlefield 6 event, which hands out even more goodies. The catch is that…
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. One should never overlook the humble NPC. Sure, they’re not the ones leading the way in the war against the…
Mondays—who needs ’em. I’m not having a particularly great one, myself. But I’m enjoying it far more now, as I’ve just found out that a bunch of Riot’s big bosses had to get up on stage at a leadership meeting and figure out what “gooning” meant. That’s per gameplay director on LoL spinoff Teamfight Tactics,…
Need to know What is it? An atmospheric surfing game from the creators of The PathlessRelease date August 19, 2025Expect to pay TBADeveloper Giant SquidPublisher Giant SquidReviewed on RX 6800 XT, i5 12400F, 32GB RAMMultiplayer NoSteam Deck UnknownLink: Steam The first time I played The Pathless, when it released on Apple Arcade back in 2020,…
The Chinese government has reportedly mandated that its domestic data center operators nationwide should source more than 50 per cent of their chips from domestic producers. The mandate is said to have originated in guidelines proposed last March for the Shanghai municipality, which stipulated that “adoption of domestic computing and storage chips at the city’s…
Mafia: The Old Country isn’t great, but you know what? Its rendition of 1900s Sicily is sun-drenched, citrus-scented, and very nice to look at. The problem is that the main game just treats it as a series of roads to cart you between dull missions and the game’s exploration mode—squirrelled away in its chapter select—really…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: Talking about entropy in MMORPGs, and being a busy bee in World of Warcraft. I’ve noticed a trend—particularly in some recent RPGs—of, well, let’s call it ‘Netflixiness’. Dialogue designed to leave absolutely nothing to interpretation, to exposit information in the most direct way possible,…
A handful of hours with a preview build of Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree taught me a couple important things about myself: Something activates in my brain when I play anything that remotely resembles Hades, and, despite my experience with the genre, I’m really bad at controlling two characters at once. Although…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to assembled reporters at a dinner in San Francisco late last week on the topic of, you guessed it, AI, the applications of AI, and the vast sums of money moving behind the scenes to fund it. Despite being one of the most vocal advocates of the tech, Altman had…
When it comes to Gamescom, there are two kinds of people. The first: the event’s haggard attendees, who arrive in droves to hack through throngs of cosplayers and stand in three-hour queues. The second: people who elect to hang out at home instead and let all the news come to them. Canny. If you’re in…