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Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Rick and Ted have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in…
Thus far, Funcom has focussed mainly on changes to its survival MMO Dune: Awakening, with the Norwegian studio reworking the entire game to function as both a solo experience and a PvE adventure. Now that overhaul is done, however, Funcom is now set on expanding players’ adventures on Arrakis, having just announced a free expansion…
Id Software has tightened its relationship with fellow shooter specialists MachineGames according to studio co-director Marty Stratton, after Xbox laid off roughly half of the Doom developer’s employees earlier this year. Stratton was asked how the studio was doing following Xbox’s massive job cuts at a recent press event for Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. Final…
Anthropic has updated Claude Opus 5.5 to “steer it away” from letting users clone other developers’ games, after weeks of Steam being overrun with AI slop and outcries from the game development community. In an update spotted by X user Chasm (via Game Developer) Anthropic added a new rule to Claude Code’s “Rules”. Listed under…
The Outlast series has been providing horror fans with some of the most grotesque and outrageous scenes for 13 years, and to over 50 million players. The most surprising thing about all of that, though, isn’t how it’s able to keep players terrified, it’s that no one else has tried to capitalise on its success….
Edge magazine unleashed a whopper of a 16-page feature all about Grand Theft Auto 6 earlier this week. After poring over every paragraph multiple times, one thing really stuck out to me: It feels like Rockstar is pushing for a more realistic, grounded experience. Those two words might sound like an absolute nightmare to some…
Valve recently admitted that it has a problem with AI slop games and clones flooding Steam—it doesn’t know what to do about it just yet, but it at least acknowledges that it’s an issue. Now we have Roblox, speaking from the other side of that coin in its Q3 2026 shareholder letter, in which it…
After three years of invite-only playtests, Soulframe is opening its doors to everyone next week on November 6. If you’ve been waiting to see what the developers of Warframe are doing with a fantasy action RPG, you’ll finally be able to jump in and see for yourself. The transition to an open alpha will be…
I’ve made peace with our 2026 list and accepted that a few of my most anticipated releases may wind up on our new PC games 2027 calendar instead. That’s good news for me—legend has it I cannot be slain by my enemies until I’ve played Gen Atlas, Blight, and The Expanse RPG. Oddly specific win…