PC Gaming
Escape From Tarkov is the rare PC game to strike it big without a presence on big digital storefronts like Steam, in part because it helped prove the extraction shooter had legs. Demand was still high to get the game on Valve’s absurdly popular platform, though, and the day has finally come—though it was a…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Not enough respect is given to the humble videogame goblin. More than just a level 1 enemy for you to…
When The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released in 2015, its success was so overwhelming that it’s hard to imagine it would have gone any other way. But from CD Projekt’s perspective, success seemed far from certain in the runup to launch. In particular, the Polish studio was deeply concerned about competition from another game…
Released just as the survival craze was really kicking into high gear, Salt was a quietly enjoyable survival game about sailing through a virtual archipelago in your own personal pirate ship. It didn’t break through in the same way as Subnautica and Raft did, perhaps because it was a little rough around the edges—particularly visually….
One of the earliest and most ambitious mods for Elden Ring, which revised and remixed its core systems to facilitate more tailored runs through The Lands Between, has just got a huge overhaul. Elden Ring: Reforged adds a vast array of new features like difficulty modes, runeforging, new combat mechanics like deflection and ducking, new…
Part of me still believes Shadow Labyrinth is some sort of collective hallucination brought on by humanity’s overconsumption of digital cherries, as the idea of a grimdark Metroidvania starring Pac-Man is just too ludicrous to comprehend. Nonetheless, the trailer, the Steam page, and our own Shadow Labyrinth Review all point to this being a real…
From the moment I played a 20 minute demo of Blue Prince back in March of 2024 it’s been firmly lodged in my brain. It’s the best game of the year, as far as I’m concerned, and it’s one of my favorite puzzle games ever. So while chatting with Dogubomb developer Tonda Ros this week,…
When I logged into the World of Warcraft: Midnight beta earlier this week, I couldn’t play the game. Suddenly the MMO became turn-based as I clicked NPCs and waited a good 30 seconds for them to offer me a quest. The lag got even worse when I made it to the opening zone of the…
Wikipedia founder/co-founder Jimmy Wales brooks no shit, and if you have any doubt about that then I invite you to watch his recent interview on German political podcast Jung and Naiv, “the shortest interview” it’s ever done. Things are spicy from the start. After Wales introduces himself as “founder of Wikipedia,” host Tilo Jung asks…
Concord is one of the most famous flameouts in videogame history: Years of development, hundreds of millions spent, and about two weeks of uptime before Sony decided it’d seen enough and took it all out behind the wood shed—the game, the studio, the dream—and put it to rest. But somehow, Concord returned. Not official Concord,…