You think you know Baldur’s Gate 3, but you’re not getting 10/10 on our exhaustive quiz about its many wonderful gnomes

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. Have you heard? There’s a Baldur’s Gate TV show coming, headed up by Craig Mazin of Chernobyl and The Last…

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XCOM 2 is 10 years old, and 2K is celebrating with a free weekend and a 95% discount on Firaxis’ masterful sequel

Scramble the interceptors! Gather your squad! Start the deployment theme! The incredible, exceptional, possibly unbeatable XCOM 2 is 10 years old. To celebrate, publisher 2K is letting XCOM greenhorns play it free on Steam this weekend. And if you like what you see, Firaxis’ turn-based tactics sequel is also on a 95% discount for the…

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Rust player says goodbye to his server neighbours by constructing a giant, illuminated middle finger: ‘Making one of these is often how I like to end a successful wipe’

It can be tough getting on with your neighbours. Sometimes you want to say things to them, like “Don’t let your adult children play bassy music until 2AM”, or “Don’t leave your dog alone at home all day so he spends the whole. Time. Barking.” But for the sake of a peaceful life, you don’t….

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Prince of Persia’s creator reacts to Ubisoft’s cancellation of The Sands of Time remake: ‘Having a project killed is a brutal experience’

Short of someone actually inventing a magical time-manipulating dagger, we now know that the long-awaited remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will never see the light of day. Developer and publisher Ubisoft revealed it killed the project, alleged to have been nearly complete, in the latter half of January, as part of…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outs himself as massive baby as Superbowl ads annihilate ads-supported AI: if you want to ‘communicate better with your mother’, have you considered a site for dating mature women?

I’m not sure when this became a thing, but AI firm Anthropic has released the ads it intends to show during the Super Bowl. Which is in two days, and obviously has as big a live audience as you get, which is why you’re paying up to $10 million per 30 seconds of airtime. Anthropic’s…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio bestowed with France’s Order of Arts and Letters: ‘The Republic affirms: videogames are a major art form and an essential industry’

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive has claimed yet another win, and as videogame trophies go, this one is pretty rare. The studio has been awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by France’s Ministry of Culture, an honor that acknowledges “people who have distinguished themselves through their creations in the artistic or literary…

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