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Minecraft’s first drop of 2026 is bound to roll out any week now, unleashing an entire zoo of new baby skins for both passive and hostile mobs. But, while I’ve been getting far too excited over the new look for these beloved creatures, I’ve completely missed an integral item being added to the game, which…
Leon Kennedy is a veteran of the zombie apocalypse, and performed by a veteran too. Nick Apostolides returns to the role after voicing Leon in the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 4, as well as the animated series Infinite Darkness. Grace Ashcroft is the opposite—Resident Evil Requiem is very much her first rodeo, and…
WHY I LOVE (Image credit: Blizzard) In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. This week, Jody remembers Diablo 2’s dark opening. It’s weird to feel affection for dreary bogs with names like Blood Moor, even if they do look like…
Best of the best (Image credit: Rockstar) 2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard…
If there are 0 fans of Sonic the Hedgehog’s early 3D outings from the Dreamcast days, I am dead twice over, because someone will almost certainly have to kill my over-enthusiastic ghost. Granted, the games did have their problems—levels were too cramped to accommodate your top speed, alternate characters came with less fun playstyles, and…
As Tom’s Hardware reported, X user Keripo posted an image and video of a physical game they had bought online on Feb. 26—more accurately, a rare pre-release trial version of the visual novel Tsukihime by Type-Moon. Only 50 copies of this particular trial version were ever produced, and as you can see in Keripo’s picture,…
World of Warcraft: Midnight is the first time players have had a real reason to return to the elven city of Silvermoon since it was released in 2007. Many players, including me, find the expanded version to be a beautiful update to an iconic location in Azeroth. We also all agree that Blizzard needs to…
Generative AI has been showing up in games so often these days that I don’t know who to trust anymore. It seems like every day there’s another game studio or publisher plaguing their games with more gen AI voice acting, gen AI chat bots, or gen AI art. Blizzard developers, however, have come out against…
When Squid Game first exploded onto Netflix in late 2021, its influence on other forms of popular culture was immediate. The GTA 5 modding scene was captured by the zeitgeist, but it must be said that Los Santos and Blaine County’s slant on the dystopian murder game show left a lot to be desired. Defined…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “how tidy is your desktop?” and “what game will you never uninstall?” Narrative designer Cara Ellison got into gaming via the BBC…