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In case there was any doubt, Starbreeze is not happy with how things are working out for Payday 3, the much-troubled heist-shooter that launched in September 2023. In its year-end financial report for 2023, CEO Tobias Sjögren said sales and player numbers are “at significantly lower levels than we would like,” but it’s not giving…
RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Spotify What’s up PC gamers? Welcome back to the PC Gamer Chat Log podcast! How has everyone’s week been so far? I hope you’ve been finding plenty of time to play games and do the other things you love outside of general life stresses. For the 10 or so…
No Man’s Sky nearly burned up on its atmospheric entry back in 2016—it promised the universe, and only delivered a sort-of-okay space game. PC Gamer gave it a middling 64 at launch in our No Man’s Sky review, with Christopher Livingston remarking: “I’ve touched an infinite universe and walked away with some nice vacation photos.”…
Survival games, what would we do without them? Much less rock punching, I would imagine, but it wouldn’t be a year in PC gaming without several of the little tikes, all competing to capture the lightning in a bottle of big survival games releases past. Potential contender Nightingale is due to release into early access…
Need to know What is it? The sequel to 2015’s Helldivers, an online squad shooter inspired by Starship Troopers. It switches the original’s top-down perspective for a fully 3D, over the shoulder view. Expect to pay £35/$40 Release date Out now Developer Arrowhead Game Studios Publisher PlayStation PC Reviewed on RTX 2070, i7-10750H, 16GB…
Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3’s story and the Dark Urge origin. From the opening cinematic, where you find yourself trapped in a pod and watch as a razor-mouthed leech is lowered into your eye, Baldur’s Gate 3 makes it very clear that it is a game about the body—about what…
Somewhere in a filing cabinet is a contract. On that contract is my name and the name of my employer—PC Gamer’s publisher Future PLC—and a job title: “news writer”. And look, if someone assassinates the JFK of videogames* I’ll be there to break it down for you, but personally? I think my true job is…
I am, when all’s said and done, quite a lazy man. I like naps, usually forget to take the bins out, and frequently put off making dinner until about 9 pm. But I’m a very diligent Helldiver. The propaganda machine back at Super Earth has really had an impact on me, and now I can’t…
Bad news if you were looking forward to executing your friends in the name of managed democracy: Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead studio CEO Johan Pilestedt says the game will “‘never’ add a PVP mode,” and that you’d be better off looking elsewhere to get your fix of player-vs-player mayhem. For instance, maybe you’ve…
Puzzling out the best Helldivers 2 weapons is a trial-and-error process. While you have Stratagems that’ll let you call down heavy weapons, there are also lots of primaries to pick from when sorting your character’s loadout. As you progress through the game and gather Medals, you’ll be able to unlock even more guns in the…