PC Gaming
I really don’t know how to feel about this one: A new Painkiller was unveiled today at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase, being developed by Anshar Studios and published by 3D Realms, and I just don’t know if I can bring myself to have hope that it’s going to be good. See, here’s the…
What’s summer for if not heading to the nearest body of water and flinging yourself into it? But if you’d rather stay dry, you can instead send an army of hardened warriors into the sea in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord‘s upcoming naval expansion, War Sails. Now that the sea’s being opened up, naturally that…
The Finals has experimented a fair bit with its gamemode selection since it came out, ranging from a serviceable free-for-all format to the more popular Power Shift—and that continues with today’s launch of Season 6, which will permanently add team deathmatch as a mode for anyone eager to trade all these fancy rulesets for a…
Here’s my confession: I think I prefer System Shock 2 to Deus Ex. Not that I don’t love JC Denton like a son, mind you, it’s just that SS2’s creepy hallways and pitch-perfect antagonists have taken root in my heart forever. So I gotta be honest, of all the whizzbang announcements spilling out of the…
Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast senior vice president of digital games Dan Ayoub said that we won’t have to wait too long to see what the company has in store for D&D. In an interview with PC Gamer, I asked him just what that meant—did “soon” in fact mean sometime in 2025? “Definitely,”…
“Of the new jokers being added to Balatro, which is your favorite?” This was my incredibly lame attempt to extract a little classified information about the upcoming Balatro 1.1 update while talking to Wout van Halderen, the communications director at Balatro’s publisher, Playstack, when we talked at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this…
You might know Bloober Team for its Silent Hill 2 remake, which everyone was really scared would suck until it turned out to be pretty okay, but the studio’s penchant for polarizing horror goes back a long way. These days, it’s cooking up games under a horror-centric co-development label called Broken Mirror Games—the latest of…
Just a few months after People Can Fly announced the suspension of work on Project Victoria, it’s sprung back to life as Lost Rift, a survival shooter that blends solo or co-op PvE gameplay and base-building with “intense PvPvE expeditions” across a mysterious archipelago of islands. Revealed during today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, Lost…
Charles Zukowski, a game marketing strategist, delivered a talk at Game Developers Conference 2025 on one of the perennial questions for developers big and small: How do you get your game noticed on Steam? There is, of course, no single answer to that question. Beyond the blindingly simple idea of making a great game, there…
The rise of voice chat in online videogames has inevitably led to a growth in bad behavior between players—it is, after all, a lot easier to scream slurs and abuse at other people than it is to stop playing and type them out. Moderating that sort of toxicity is tough, and some companies are turning…