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Speaking to actor Samantha Béart about their fan (and PC Gamer)-favorite turn as Karlach in Baldur’s Gate 3, I was surprised at how close we were to a different actor portraying the character. Béart was initially turned down for what sounds like an early version of Karlach, as well as some side NPCs. It took…

Monster Hunter Wilds has become the latest Steam review battleground as an influx of disgruntled players have tanked its review rating down to “overwhelmingly negative” in the last week. Since Monday, over 2,000 negative reviews have been filed, most of which criticize its poor PC performance and a lack of substantial fixes from Capcom in…

FBC: Firebreak did not live up to the hopes we had for it. But, as we noted in our 60% review, “many of Firebreak’s problems are fixable. A thorough balance revision would immediately improve the experience.” In an update posted on Steam today, Remedy said that’s exactly the plan. After the usual ‘thanks for the…

It might not be immediately apparent, what with its pompous music and brutal murder of Patrick Stewart, but The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is a very funny game. For some players, like PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens, it’s a big part of the attraction, and the recent official remaster kept a lot of Oblivion’s jank intact….

Have you ever thought to yourself, boy, I sure would like a Duke Nukem TV series? Well you might be getting one anyway, as Adi Shankar, producer of the Devil May Cry and Castlevania shows on Netflix, said in an interview with Esquire that he’s acquired the rights to make one. Most of the interview…

The cover’s blown on 007 First Light, IO Interactive’s stealth action game starring a young James Bond. After some teasing and years of quiet work on “Project 007,” we finally know what kind of game the Hitman developer has been cooking up for the iconic character. A short trailer that debuted during Sony’s June State…

Grounded 2 is just around the corner, and it’s looking like you can expect big things from this tiny survival-crafter. Five years after its predecessor entered early access, Grounded 2 was announced at the recent Xbox Games Showcase and promised to deliver even wilder miniaturised adventures for fans of the original game. Hey, we’re even…

Balatro was PC Gamer’s 2024 Game of the Year for many good reasons, but one of them was that no-one on the team could stop playing this thing. We weren’t alone either: developers went gaga for the poker roguelike. And now it turns out that even Balatro creator LocalThunk just can’t stop banging his head…

US President Donald Trump has once again pushed back a deadline requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese owner, Bytedance. Last year the US passed a law requiring either a sale or that the app be banned. This marks the third time that Trump has extended the deadline. Trump signed the executive order yesterday,…