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One happy upside to Double Fine’s newly-regained independence is the return of Amnesia Fortnight, the semi-regular in-house game jam in which everyone stops what they’re doing and spends two weeks pitching and developing prototypes for new games. The 2026 edition of the event—seemingly the first since Microsoft acquired Double Fine in 2019—launched a Kickstarter campaign…

Back in 2024, Dwarf Fortress surpassed 800,000 copies sold, more than enough to make co-creators Tarn and Zach Adams millionaires. At the time, they seemed to be taking a low-key approach to the whole mo’ money thing, so when our intrepid interviewer Joshua Wolens caught up with Tarn at the recently-concluded Gamescom, he asked if,…

Back in June, Capcom revealed Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, a “massive,” Iceborne-style expansion promising new and returning monsters, new regions to hunt in, and—of course—new combat options. In the announcement trailer, Capcom offered a brief glimpse at the Boost Bracer, an enigmatic new mechanic that seemed to augment hunter fighting styles with additional jolts of…

Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. We saw many things…

I don’t like waging into gaming romance wars—things got a bit dicey with Ada and Claire—but it seems that I am yet to learn my lesson because here I am again with the news that Geralt’s one true love isn’t Yennifer or Triss, it’s his trusty and talkative bard, Dandelion. At least Geralt’s gaming voice…

Earlier this year, shots were fired and an incendiary device was thrown at the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a recent interview with Time, he reflected on the past year: “It has been a painful personal experience. Clearly, people hate data centres—right now, at least. People are pretty negative on AI.” Does that…

One of the significant differences between most historical Total Wars and the Warhammer games is that the factions aren’t comparable with nations. In Total War: Warhammer 40,000, the Space Marines and Astra Militarum, for instance, are effectively two branches of the same military. So when I was playing Total War 40k at Gamescom as the…

I played an hour of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn at Gamescom, and despite doing it in a sweltering room with a dev judging me for every death, I came away pretty impressed. It deserves to stand on its own merits, but unfortunately I am about to talk about Mass Effect quite a lot—it’s hard not…

SteamDB is an excellent resource—as someone who occasionally has to pull up a game’s concurrent numbers or pricing to make a point, I’d be lying if I said I haven’t used it in a professional capacity. What’s been more staggering is its status as a site run entirely on donations. Well, that’s ending soon. The…

The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct is back September 20, and PC Gamer is happy to announce the fantastic Frankie Ward will be hosting, making it her second PC Gaming Show of the year. Frankie is a host and presenter with years of experience. She won presenter of the year at the 2018 inaugural UK…