PVKK is our 20th Most Wanted game, and this new trailer shows how unquestioningly following orders can lead to shooting down Santa Claus

Buttons, levers, dials, switches. I want to press them all. The daunting control desk of Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant, or PVKK for short, is shown off impressively in the new trailer revealed to celebrate the game hitting our number 20 spot in the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. Oh, and Santa Claus is also blasted out of the…

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Sable creative director’s new studio aims to make games sustainably rather than ‘trying to make loads of money off one big hit project’

Gregorios Kythreotis, creative director of Shedworks’ well-loved open-world adventure, Sable, took to the screen during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted to show off his new studio: Eteo. The teaser is a first ever look at the studio, founded by Kythreotis in 2024, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at upcoming announcements. Add it to your…

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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes’ new trailer reminds us that resource management only gets you so far—we have to fight with giant lasers to save humanity

Sci-fi fans rejoice. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes just saw a new teaser trailer drop during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted and my engines are powering up in the cold expanse. Time to get back into my space-age resource management phase. Add it to your wishlist Wishlist Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes on Steam Revealed back…

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Path of Exile 2 devs ‘had so much negativity’ around druids not being able to dodge roll in animal forms that they spent the last month making it happen: ‘Man it was tough to get that to work right’

Give people the ability to transform into a bear and they will do anything in their power to avoid reverting back to their flimsy human form. This is the core fantasy of playing a druid in any RPG, and it’s something the Path of Exile 2 developers learned at the least opportune time when polishing…

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Tencent promises not to pull any shenanigans with its Horizon-like survival game while Sony’s lawsuit works through the courts, unless and until a judge says it can

This might seem kind of ironic, given that you’re reading about it right here on the front page of PC Gamer, but Tencent has promised that it will not do any new promotions or marketing for its Horizon-like survival game Light of Motiram, nor will it move up the release window for the currently planned…

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Two men have been arrested for attempting to destroy government databases and they reportedly tried to cover their tracks with the help of AI tools

At this point, I’ve come to look at generative AI in search as a hindrance at best, and a potentially damaging ‘yes and machine‘ at worst. Despite that, it seems that two alleged conspirators used it to try and cover their tracks after attempting to destroy 96 government databases. Maybe next time, go with plain…

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Creative Assembly has been busy—Total War: Medieval 3 is coming, along with more Warhammer DLC and another game that will be revealed next week, ‘marking the beginning of an exciting new era’

Creative Assembly’s first ever Total War sequel is getting a sequel of its own. Two decades after the arrival of Total War: Medieval 2, we’re going back to the Middle Ages for Total War: Medieval 3. Sega and Creative Assembly revealed their next game during a 25th anniversary showcase (here it is again in case…

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