Fans reckon that Ciri’s on the path in The Witcher 4 because The Witcher 3’s endgame screwed everything up

CDPR dropped its Witcher 4 reveal trailer at big Geoff’s Game Awards last night, and surprise: You’re Ciri now. Little Zireael has followed in her adoptive dad’s footsteps and taken on the mantle of witcher, seemingly confirming the ‘Witcheress’ ending for The Witcher 3 and turning our Ciri into an itinerant monster-slayer and probable Gwent…

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The Witcher 4 was always going to be about Ciri, ‘even when we were doing The Wild Hunt actually’, but don’t worry about Geralt: ‘Definitely he’s going to appear’

The Witcher 4, perhaps one of the most anticipated RPGs of the next decade—if only because it might give us a new bathtub Geralt equivalent to use—was announced at The Game Awards yesterday. One of the biggest reveals was that the game would be allowing Geralt to hang up his silver and steel for a…

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My favourite Hitman game, which has over 10,000 ‘Very Positive’ reviews on Steam, is now less than a buck

I think it’s fair to say that PC Gamer and Hitman: Blood Money have a long, storied relationship. Jim Rossignol once said that ‘I never get tired of Hitman: Blood Money’s inventiveness’, while Tom Francis described the assassination sim as ‘one of the richest, most open-ended and enduringly satisfying games ever.’ That sounds like high…

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How to find a Fast Recon Vehicle in Helldivers 2

The really big news in Helldivers 2‘s surprise Omens of Tyranny update is the Illuminate invasion, but another exciting addition has come with those mind-controlling aliens: a car. Specifically, Helldivers 2 now has a four-person Fast Recon Vehicle inspired by the off-road antics you see in PUBG. There’s a mounted gun on the top, and…

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You weren’t seeing things, Elden Ring: Nightreign’s trailer saw the return of Dark Souls 3’s iconic hidden megaboss, and I have no idea what it means

There was a metric ton going on in Elden Ring: Nightreign’s first trailer—and even more in PCG senior editor Wes Fenlon’s massive hands-on preview of the game. But among the familiar sights of the roguelike spinoff’s bizarro Limgrave, there was an even deeper bit of deja vu: The return of a previously one-of-a-kind boss from…

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