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Getting ambushed by a reaper leviathan in Subnautica has, by now, become a canonical PC gaming experience. It’s distilled oceanic horror, confirming all the player’s thalassophobic anxieties in a singular moment of aquatic violence—and in an interview with PC Gamer, Subnautica 2 game design lead Anthony Gallegos said it had only become bearable after years…

If you check the Steam listings for the Subnautica games, you’ll find the “Survival” tag prominently featured—mostly on account of the gathering, and the crafting, and the risk of drowning in an overtly hostile biosphere. In an interview with PC Gamer ahead of its upcoming early access launch, however, Subnautica 2’s developers say that’s something…

There are times where, during our daily discussions of whether something meets the bar to be considered news on the good site PC Gamer, where I am filled with a deep sense of foreboding dread. This morning was one of those times, where one of my colleagues informed me that Joe Rogan—American podcaster and historic…

It’s always a pain finding trinket items for new projects and events in Arc Raiders, as they’re less predictable to find than standard resources. That strikes again with Riven Tides‘ new Avian Alarm project, which asks you to find three Red Coral Jewelry. Don’t worry though, once you know where to look, it’s not actually…

It is the present day and young Mr James Bond is having a horrible time in Iceland. The dewy-eyed SAS rookie’s transport chopper has exploded, all his friends are face-down in the basalt sand, and a cosmopolitan band of armed men seem alarmingly determined to make sure none of them get back up. He’s hypothermic,…

The Musk v. Altman trial is now well underway, in which businessman, entrepreneur, and the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, is suing OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman and OpenAI itself. Musk has alleged that, as a co-founder of the company, he was deliberately misled in regards to OpenAI shifting the organisation away from a non-profit venture…

PC enthusiasts might feel that Microsoft has been slowly stripping customisation control options out of Windows, but the truth of the matter is that they haven’t actually gone. They’ve just been moved into a separate piece of software called PowerToys, and if you’re the kind of PC user who uses lots of big monitors at…

Anyone with even passing experience of using the latest LLMs knows to expect the unexpected. They can spit out some really random and often disturbing stuff. But ChatGPT’s ‘multiplying’ goblin infestation is a bit more pathological than that. Yesterday, OpenAI uploaded a blog post titled “Where the goblins came from” and explaining how, starting with…

Fallout 76 is about the closest we’re likely get to a fully-fledged Fallout MMO—given the genre’s pretty hard to get into nowadays and, well, it’s doing rather well. But there was a time that would’ve seen a massively multiplayer variant of the wasteland competing with Blizzard’s biggest: The ill-fated, legally-tangled Fallout Online. That’s per Matt…

Matt Firor has been in the MMO business since 2001, the days of Dark Age of Camelot, and ran The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios until 2025. Firor resigned in response to the cancellation of in-development MMO Blackbird and the mass layoffs that followed. Firor still plays The Elder Scrolls Online in secret,…