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Watch out, Mephisto: A true terror has arrived in Diablo 4 in the form of a giant chicken. It’s April Fool’s Day (or April Fowl’s Day, if you will) and Blizzard has unleashed a new world boss that drops entirely unique, chicken-flavored loot. I barely missed the window to battle the beast, but players in…
“Minishoot’ Adventures is a delight, questionable apostrophe use in the title and all,” we wrote back in 2024, in a roundup of the year’s great crop of metroidvanias. Compared to its contemporaries Animal Well and Nine Sols, Minishoot’ Adventures didn’t get a ton of attention two years ago, but it was a realhead’s hidden gem…
Amidst its ongoing Japanese patent lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair, Nintendo thoroughly stirred the legal pot on this side of the Pacific when news broke in September 2025 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had granted the publisher US patent 12,403,397—a patent describing a system for battling summoned characters. Despite concerns about how…
20 years after Garry’s Mod changed pretty much everything, Facepunch Studios has revealed that the sandbox successor s&box (yes, pronounced “sandbox”) will finally launch on Steam on April 28. The news arrived not with a big announcement or flashy marketing push, or any kind of fanfare at all—it just popped up quietly in a Steam…
The only way to make a decent April Fools’ joke these days is pretend you’re making something totally ridiculous and then actually make that thing. That’s the route Treyarch took with its seasonal goof in Black Ops 7, which it unveiled today with an X post depicting a map no larger than a single room….
April Fool’s Day is back again, offering a slate of jokes, gags, knee-slappers, and occasional bouts of confusion as those of us who have to wrangle this stuff are forced to expend way too much mental energy debating whether an announcement is real, or just not very funny. It’s rough out there, folks. Each year…
Gabe Newell remains the CEO of Valve, but it’s no secret that he stepped back from actively running the company some time ago: he says himself he’s been “retired for a long time.” Newell now divides his days between various other pursuits, including Starfish Neuroscience, a company he co-founded that focuses on neural interfaces, and…
On leaving Tango Gameworks in 2023 industry legend Shinji Mikami started up a new development studio called Unbound. This was the third studio Mikami has co-founded or founded, after PlatinumGames (2007) and Tango itself (2010), not to mention his leadership of Capcom’s iconic Production Studio 4 and later Clover Studios. Unbound was recently in the…
Marathon’s Outpost map is an extraction masterclass, in large part due to how the central Pinwheel location lulled players in with the promise of loot. However, it wasn’t without its issues: the Destroyed Wing entrance had to be disabled shortly after it launched, and it was overall too easy to break in once players had…
The cozy games launching in April are almost unanimously chilled out. It’s really feeling like groundhog day around here because somehow the extra six weeks of winter aren’t over. I’ve dragged PC Gamer’s cozy gaming collective out of their burrows to curate the cozy games of April calendar and tell you a little about what…